Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Micheal Zarowsky Fine Art exploration of light and water ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://zarowsky.net/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://zarowsky.net/blog/) - # - [past auction resale](https://zarowsky.net/17205-2/) - my last post I started writing about mayberrys' auction of my piece, and ended up clamouring about AI so trying once again to stick to expressing an idea all the way thru without changing horses midresale midpainting midthoughts midstream having psted "occasionally my past works comeup for resale whenever they do and one such resale - [AI AI 0](https://zarowsky.net/ai-ai-0/) - go daddy stats shared that last week there were 875 visits to this website and i am sure more of the visitors were new rather than clients revisiting if only because there was nada followup from any of them and my clients aren't shy. how to bring visitors up to date on what we are - [birth of autumn](https://zarowsky.net/birth-of-autumn/) - early autumn is where i find the reds but more oftenthan not by the time I become aware of fall having arrived its been here for a while, so I wanted to work out how / what I would see if I was there at the beginning to see an explosion of colours burst red; - [lily n bobbin' pickerel weed](https://zarowsky.net/lily-n-bobbin-pickerel-weed/) - a here and everywhere week delivering new work to Joan at Dragonfly in Orangeville before going up to Shelbourne for the Colour & Form Exhibition and days later met with Claudia at Summer n Grace in Oakville with half a dozen new water patterns for their walls and today left Erin at Petroff with my - [freefall leaffall](https://zarowsky.net/freefall-rainfall/) - have put all the winter light ideas on the back burner of my mind for now, spending the week working ideas and colours of / from fall, working larger, just losing myself for days bringing possible 'details' to painted ones as autumn moves along seeing daylight thru a freefall leaffall of colour 'day full of - [raining leaves](https://zarowsky.net/raining-leaves-2/) - Red top was with me dropping off 'day full of raining leaves' lake mcdonald' 27x21 and got to say hello talk with Ivan at Petroff on thursday. - [go home lake painting](https://zarowsky.net/new-go-home-lake-painting/) - making for a bountiful saturday with a 3rd post - this one of a small new autumn work from the public landing out onto / at go home lake in georgian bay that had been started prior to last weeks TOAF and worked as close to being finished as time last night would allow. autumn - [new work at Dragonfly on Broadway](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-dragonfly-on-broadway-2/) - got my truck storm-washed 5 times delivering 6 new paintings to Joan at Dragonfly on Broadway today, 3 of which were from the lido bikes series lido bikes 181 16x16 550.00 Joan now has 5 of my original bike works on her wall. and hopped back onto the road inside a sky of blue smoke - [water dance](https://zarowsky.net/water-dance/) - new watercolour on panel / still have to build edges and then continue the painting on the edges. finding some recognizable patterns in the random freedom of chaos Wendy stirred the water in her own way water dance, pickerel weed as sprites pickerel weed dancing circle for me, reminiscent of Matisse's cutouts dancers 18" - [the day after the day after](https://zarowsky.net/the-day-after-the-day-after/) - The Day after day after finding myself still scrolling thru comments from new insta followers who came by the show opens up not so much a new window thru which to promote our work to the world, as we have been consistently posting on insta for some time now, but our reach had mostly extended - [how long](https://zarowsky.net/how-long/) - in 'trail thru sunlight', 36" x 40" i am able to continue and add to what i have up to now grouped as my 'blue sky day' works; works focusing on the sparkling clarity of light dance-moving thru the forests while casting blue shadows revealing the lay of the danceland up still to come up - [pines. island. killarney. ](https://zarowsky.net/pines-island-killarney/) - pines. island. killarney. pines waving out / reaching up to the universe while riding the georgian bay breezes 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [slow drift thru pickerel weed](https://zarowsky.net/slow-drift-thru-pickerel-weed/) - sitting watching the unexpected making room for what comes along slow drift thru pickerel weed margaret lake 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 350 - [autumn along the gull river](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-along-the-gull-river/) - autumn screen looking thru to the gull river at elliot falls, autumn colours along the gull river 36" x 48" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 3900. - [new trail thru winter](https://zarowsky.net/new-trail-thru-winter/) - hopefully it shows thru the work, is clear to everyone who visits my site, that i don't mind the cold, love snowshoeing thru a sunlit forest after an overnight blanketing of snow, that i just like winter. haven’t exactly figured out why but looking back over just even the last 6 months, each piece seems - [lilies catching raindrops](https://zarowsky.net/lilies-catching-raindrops/) - latest late summer lilies from sherborne lake with Wendy in the rain stirring the water my way. looking back it took the forever part of the week as i stopped and worked out several smaller panels with pickerel weed and water designs each time they floated across my vision. Usually i have a small window - [deep water lilies](https://zarowsky.net/deep-water-lilies/) - working out a few small pickerel weed natural flow designs that are rattling around in my brain at the same time while working out a larger idea 'lillies catching raindrops' as my way of emptying my distractions and regaining my focus. not a big thing of course, and i do end up with 4 small - [moonlight water](https://zarowsky.net/17103-2/) - As well as liking what nature did in designing how pickerel weeds looks, I also like that pickerel weed, and arrowheads, are an incredibly efficient aquatic plant that acts as a natural biological filter of polluted water Pickerel weed catching moonlight / 11" x 8 1/2" / watercolour - acrylic painted - [simplicity of pickerel weed and water](https://zarowsky.net/simplicity-of-pickerel-weed-and-water/) - working out suggestively interesting small interactional designs between water, shorelines plants including water lilies, pickerel weed, arrowheads, wild rice, (and those yet not discovered and as such as yet not included) lily and 3 bobbing pickerel weed 11" x 8 1/2" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel . 200. in waterlilies pages - [pickerel weeds after dark](https://zarowsky.net/pickerel-weeds-after-dark/) - love how the flotilla of pickerel weeds are riding the breezes yet rooted at the same time kind like letting go with one hand pickerel weed catching the night light / moon over margaret lake 16" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 400 - [backyard-panther-on-elm-ave](https://zarowsky.net/backyard-panther-on-elm-ave/) - the sixth visit from / of backyard panther now in my neighbourhood / backyard-panther-on-elm-ave 16" x 10" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 400. - [small georgian bay studies](https://zarowsky.net/small-georgian-bay-studies/) - still have a few winter ideas that are burning a hole in the back of my head looking for daylight, but inbetween them becoming paintings, working out new ways to see georgian bay 0 pared down to visual essentials / visual glide thru along shoreline line summerbright la cloche island n pine 14" x 11" - [summer water dazzle 7](https://zarowsky.net/summer-water-dazzle-7/) - There is a natural elegance both to and in the world. my paintings, of wetlands we have found, as reflections on the middle of nowhere, are meditations on that elegance; they all contain the endless looking for divine spark of originality. summer water dazzle is my ongoing exploration for the perfect line dividing water into - [sparkles sparkling](https://zarowsky.net/sparkles-sparkling/) - latest 'fall' study, from out where nipissing river flows under hwy 64 'sparkles sparkling along the west arm of the nipissing river' 16" x 16" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 550. - [gliding thru summer](https://zarowsky.net/gliding-thru-summer/) - the gently curving line from left to right glides me thru the painting. that simple. i guess i first saw it in Lemieux's figure paintings which a slanted horizon line behind the figure creating movement across the surface of the painting. pointing out that it is up near the bottom - [hardy lake screen](https://zarowsky.net/hardy-lake-screen/) - another of my ideas for paintings preferring the visual kaleidoscope of mystery colour fragments that makes up the screen of trees teasing about what the lake will reveal at / from the waters edge. my newest watercolour is one of 3 ongoing georgian bay fall works 'lookthru lookout hardy lake' 16" x 16" watercolour / - [lakeswide screen painting](https://zarowsky.net/lakeswide-screen-painting/) - for me painting a lake, just stepping back a bit from the shoreline offers up a fullness which fragments the lake view into a tangled autumn colours overgrown 'waterfront screen' is more interesting than the open view once i reach the waters edge. birches and windy breezes lake kushog 24"x24" watercolour / acrylic painted - [trail thru sunlight](https://zarowsky.net/trail-thru-sunlight/) - speaking like a person addicted to life could use a couple of hours tacked onto each day after coming to grips with so much winterlight in my head i need to get out that i am painting across spring (not that i really follow the seasons other than continue to breath my way thru them) - [new backyard panther](https://zarowsky.net/new-backyard-panther/) - in working ideas from around the city have come upon an ongoing series involving the backyard panther, being spotted stalking the laneways and side streets and who knows where else he may turn up. sunlit soliloquy staged by backyard panther on vermont street 16" x 16" x 1 3/4" watercolour /acrylic painted directly on - [raining leaves](https://zarowsky.net/raining-leaves/) - the idea is it is raining leaves all around you while walking a short side trail from McCrae lake to where it opened up to a narrow fjord like slit that is either Mcdonald lake or river on one of those raining leaves all around you all day days so calling it 'good day for - [east coast working harbour watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/east-coast-working-harbour-watercolour/) - from our time in the east coast one of my larger wTercolours got accepted into the CSPWC "Canadian Waters online Online Juried Exhibition" knockout glad the judges saw enough merit in "working harbour mill cove nova scotia" to want to include it in the exhibition. 40" x 60" watercolour on saunders paper 4500. - [working harbour accepted into CSPWC cdn waters exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/working-harbour-accepted-into-cspwc-cdn-waters-exhibition/) - in a year in which we aren't doing as many outdoor shows as we used to, have had wonderful consistent success with our entries into the art societies we are members of. iin what i hope isn't a tired routine, have continued my direct yet simple way of announcing / promoting these, with the email - [moon on the pond juried into 2026 SCA Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/moon-on-the-pond-juried-into-2026-sca-exhibition/) - got really really really good news that 'moon on the pond' (2) was juried into the 2026 SCA Open International Online Juried Exhibition / so glad the judges saw enough merit in my watercolour to want to include it in the exhibition. not sure if i am being petty here or not, what's just as - [slow water](https://zarowsky.net/slow-water/) - after doing more staring at this piece than working on it, worked out a few details and got the move and dip to move and dip within the infinity ring slow waves, taking all day to to float back into being waterinfinity rings with lilies 21" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on - [nothing to lament](https://zarowsky.net/nothing-to-lament/) - i know where the time went no complaints whatsoever looking back thru the fun exploring experimenting with new colours to befriend new directions new ideas many of which are posted on the website and i have no interest to stop working winters now that the world is becoming green while winterlight is still kaleidoscoping thru - [rare commission](https://zarowsky.net/rare-commission/) - found myself involved in a 'commission' of sorts - rarely do them for a host of sound reasons - broke it down to levels of understanding worked it up to being done, sent off, delivered, and no reason not to be believed, the client says happy end of story. a study of 3 siamese brothers - [latest works juried / accepted into 65th TOAF](https://zarowsky.net/juried-accepted-into-65th-toaf/) - Dear Micheal Zarowsky, Congratulations! 🎉 From all of us at Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, we are overjoyed to announce that your work in the Painting category has been selected for the 65th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, happening July 10–12 at Nathan Phillips Square and online at TOAF.ca. Read this entire message carefully; it explains important next - [spring melt](https://zarowsky.net/spring-melt-3/) - winter pond bits of spring ice hardy lake 14" x 24" watercolour acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 980. - [dressed in white](https://zarowsky.net/dressed-in-white/) - wonderful winter in that there was been snowfall after snowfall / less wonderful in that following and at times accompanying each snowfall temps rose to hovering either above or below zero bringing freezing rain and ice pellets which made for virtually impossible to drive on icy roads and rather than add to the chaos of - [trail thru winter](https://zarowsky.net/trail-thru-winter/) - wandering off the 12 mile bay rd trunk trail trail thru an overnight snowfall 16" x 16" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - ['moon on the pond' juried into OSA Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/moon-on-the-pond-juried-into-osa-exhibition/) - posted it early, posting it less early or at least that 'moon on the pond' (from 12 mile bay rd in georgian bay) juried into the OSA exhibition, is hung and on display, is open, along with the entire amazing exhibition at the Art Gallery of Georgina, located at 147 high street in Sutton ON - [following snow squalls](https://zarowsky.net/following-snow-squalls/) - a number of years ago i researched snow squalls looking for more precise details that i could match up with full moons, as i have found among the many effects of the pull of the full moon on the earth is a high pressure zone, deep sub zero temps and blue skies, all of which - [latest winter from ponds at hardy lake](https://zarowsky.net/latest-winter-from-ponds-at-hardy-lake/) - in my latest winter light studies from circling n circling back along the edges of the pond at hardy lake resembling a slow nascar race on snowshoes i stepped back from the shoreline looking for what we call interesting ‘screens’ / the ‘what’ of the composition we need to look thru to see the actual - [OSA juried Exhibition at Art Gallery of Georgina](https://zarowsky.net/osa-juried-exhibition-at-art-gallery-of-georgina/) - my painting from one of several beaver ponds along 12 mile bay rd in georgian bay, titled, "full mooooooon the beaver pond" , (1) has been accepted into this years' OSA Open Juried Exhibition being held March 20 - April 26th at the Art Gallery of Georgina, 149 High St., in Sutton Ontario fun times - [early overnight snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/early-overnight-snowfall/) - an Earlier 'overnight snowfall' on fav clients' wall from before we worked out how to n why to bring acrylics into our thinking n painting. (also included in the pic is one from the 'vertical garden' series of flowering balconies in venice. Overnight snowfall Bruce's mill 48"x24" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel - [snow sky day](https://zarowsky.net/snow-sky-day/) - snowshoeing the edges of the beaver pond in hardy lake able to see to the sky thru the trees wrapped in snow. by having them all catch / be in the light / my eye focus glimpse touches across all snow covered upper branches of the trees thru them being bulked down with a heavy - [a winter full of snow](https://zarowsky.net/a-winter-full-of-snow/) - a winter full of snow everywhere stream open thru february 12"x12" watercolour / acrylic on gessoed panel 350. - [magic of nowhere](https://zarowsky.net/magic-of-nowhere/) - finally got some snowshoeing in wandering thru sunlight after an overnight snowfall, magic of nowhere sun streamers across a half open february stream 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 350. - [looking thru an overnight snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/looking-thru-an-overnight-snowfall/) - 2nd 'looking thru an overnight snowfall' immersive winter .... losing yourself by circling the snowcoverd forest tangle encircling you as you stand there to a view looking thru an overnight snowfall to the stream ahead ..... slowly circling all around losing yourself in what is an immersive fullness of winter study where if you are - [autumn trout pond (2)](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-trout-pond-2/) - some years it is bone dry, this year, ground was sopping wet; walking around the shoreline, sitting on dry logs and watching self stirred reflections walking the other way around, sitting on logs after repeatedly soak stepping into some six inches of reflecting water while working out actual shorelines in pursuit of deep - [earlier than early](https://zarowsky.net/earlier-than-early/) - an earlier than early watercolour from 83' from our own stash of never shown works Woodland stream / simpler study from then basically paynes gray n umber 8" x 12" approx / watercolour on arches paper - [red swirl of autumn](https://zarowsky.net/red-swirl-of-autumn/) - autumn is always shorter than i can paint it so i continue painting red poking up thru the snow season while working the snow season to cover up the autumn reds poking thru red swirl of autumn raven lake as seen thru sherborne lake access rd 26" x 26" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic - [wintering cardinals 2](https://zarowsky.net/wintering-cardinals-2-2/) - the second wintering cardinals in a large area of landscape the better to breathe their size from a rocky outcrop in a rock cut along hwy 28 wintering cardinals 2 16" x 23 1/2" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [wintering cardinals](https://zarowsky.net/wintering-cardinals-2/) - we fed raised 75+ generations of cardinals from our balcony before neighbours complained and we had to stop. this was several years ago. didn't like it but moved on. ever since i have on occasion felt the urge / need / desire to include a cardinal to one of my paintings. a week ago a - [red leaves floating, an ongoing series](https://zarowsky.net/red-leaves-floating-an-ongoing-series/) - i've talked of this before in earlier posts, mostly after working up the latest rain pond filled with autumn leaves; come fall i go looking thru rolling countryside, for rain filled depressions in the land, for rain created instant ponds filled with inches of excess rainwater as it fingers in thru the grasses making for - [changes in thinking winter](https://zarowsky.net/changes-in-thinking-winter/) - slowly over the past year, along with everything else, i have been working thru how i break down what i - [october reflections](https://zarowsky.net/october-reflections/) - new october reflection from the trout pond autumn trout pond 32 5/8" x 22 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 2600. - [first open winter stream](https://zarowsky.net/first-open-winter-stream/) - posted the 2nd coming to open water in winter study earlier without having done the same for the first one. love it when the streams stay open / first open stream with the ice covered snow looking like a floor floating on the water 'sunlit snowcovered shoreline pine along an open sunlit winter stream' 24" - [open winter streams](https://zarowsky.net/open-winter-streams/) - 2nd coming to open water in winter study. Unique moments in time as this is winter has brought pile high snow for a change and with the snow covered ice reaching almost across to where zigzag long dark ribbons outline the shorelines of / along both sides of the stream path - [spring plantings](https://zarowsky.net/spring-plantings/) - after coming across a bermuda perfumery piece that is up for resale, i checked my rememberabilaity threshold and found and pulled out another work from the bermuda perfumery that actually is available for purchase here at the studio. did a lot of strange compositions then and hopefully am still doing so now. i - [bermuda watercolour up for resale](https://zarowsky.net/bermuda-watercolour-up-for-resale/) - always interested in my works as they come up for resale at the various auction houses; not sure where it is being resold / remembering this watercolour from 95" of working out the arrangement of the stuff happening on and living along a part of the wall inside the perfumery i had joseph cornell' s - [beaded doorway curtain into the season](https://zarowsky.net/beaded-doorway-curtain-into-the-season/) - working since and whenever there was a free moment in october (to now) mostly when and because another idea was waiting to dry before i could continue on it, i started working out this idea of looking thru autumn colours down a slight inclining dip more than a hillside to the stream running out of - [fat tire bikes thru walkers woods](https://zarowsky.net/fat-tire-bikes-thru-walkers-woods/) - simple study; trail thru walkers woods / being a local patch of forest i keep an ear out and step aside for the fat tire bike riders pedalling pedalling pedalling at break crash-neck speed thru the carved out trails not seeing anything other than the trail in front of them .... one of many scheduled - [HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE](https://zarowsky.net/happy-new-year-everyone-2/) - keeping it simple; H A P P Y N E W Y E A R - [winter trails](https://zarowsky.net/winter-trails/) - getting attention for our 'trails thru winter' most of which i make myself wandering thru sunlit forests the day after an overnight snowfall which is my description / definition of a perfect winters day, using my feet to create, as i visualize myself walking (in a way that makes a difference in the pre - - [red leaves floating ](https://zarowsky.net/red-leaves-floating/) - i know it all sounds weird all this talking to myself? in / thru a blog post, but after hundreds of posts, kinda late to stop now. october usually brings rains and in the rolling northern landscape; simple depressions in the land fill up / become instant ponds with totally unique momentary 'shorelines' inside - [Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays,](https://zarowsky.net/seasons-greetings-happy-holidays-2/) - Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays to Everyone. trail thru winter, trail thru sunlight trail thru to a new year - [saugeen days](https://zarowsky.net/saugeen-days/) - my works on paper can't be but different than those on panel / 2 different ways of thinking although i bring in everything i from one to the other each time i work still knowing they are going to be different and that is the point that they are different when done. one of the - [bounciness of the light](https://zarowsky.net/bounciness-of-the-light/) - new winterlight painting / looking to express the clarity / freshness / bounciness of the light on that day trail thru sunlight 36" x 40" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 3k - [new work at Summer & Grace Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-summer-grace-gallery/) - was able to deliver four new pieces across fast moving sunshine filled skies to Summer n Grace Gallery in Oakville this afternoon including.....this swirl of shoreline reds riding the winds until they one by one let go and drift thru autumn...... ......autumn reds / chambers - [tangled sparkles](https://zarowsky.net/tangled-sparkles/) - a tangle of sparkles was able to maintain a sense of sense in the chaos beaver pond wrapped in sunlight. brunel rd / 30" x 40" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel Rose-Marie Cameron Lovely Micheal Zarowsky Rose-Marie Cameron thanks Rose-Marie, 1Mari Jo DeWaal I’m right there! Micheal Zarowsky Mari Jo DeWaal - [sky - scrapers](https://zarowsky.net/sky-scrapers/) - true sky - scrapers. tall pines riding the breezes, oft times winds, up and down the shoreline of georgian bay. sun catching pinetops 33" x 48" watercolour /acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel / available 3200.00 - [3 sisters / pines](https://zarowsky.net/3-sisters-pines/) - up lake huron sauble beach red bay pikes bay all resplendent with pines towering high enough to give seagulls nose/beak bleed....does one get beak / nose bleed from reaching great heights? feels like it ought to.....my difficulty is the very thing that drew me to them in the first place: their height. hard to - [reaching beyond infinity rings.....](https://zarowsky.net/reaching-beyond-infinity-rings/) - reaching beyond infinity rings....while continuing to paint infinity rings infinity rings 190 24" x 48" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel starting with the leading edge of the slow wave reaching across the page with all the water below becoming the leading edge while taking us to a smaller infinity ring - [waving out forever](https://zarowsky.net/waving-out-forever/) - i stop moving, stand still, look around, seeing interactive possibilities coming alive and lose myself in the magic of the ordinary - [snow - o - flage](https://zarowsky.net/snow-o-flage/) - snowshoed thru the hall tract on 48 n of aurora sideroad early after an overnight snowfall before the sun brought colour back into the world for another day, and having been dazzled by the grays and whites reducing everything to abstract patterns / outlines was able to pull out a straightforward composition giving these same - [sunlit hillside](https://zarowsky.net/black-friday/) - sunlight streaming down the shadow side of winter 16" x 16" / 550.00 w/c - acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel often have - [new winterlight paintings at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-winterlight-paintings-at-arta-gallery/) - delivered and left Yas at Arta Gallery with a dozen of my latest winterlight paintings including 'distance & softness of a deep woods day' / hardy lake 16x16 / watercolour /acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 550.00 / - [full moon on beaver pond in CSPWC 100th Anniversary Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/full-moon-on-beaver-pond-in-cspwc-100th-anniversary-exhibition/) - my watercolour 'full moon on the beaver pond" one of 2 such works from a beaver pond on a moonlit night along 12 mile bay road in georgian bay where Wendy and i sketched the moon bathing in the water and came back when daylight revealed what had been hidden by n in the dark, - [never quite there yet](https://zarowsky.net/never-quite-there-yet/) - finding some success working simplified visual ideas of strips of light n shadow n light up ahead / for me also references stuff going on ahead of my head farther now to distances 4 16 1/2" x 15" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 550. - [Summer & Grace promote new Zarowsky paintings at their Oakville Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/summer-grace-promote-new-zarowsky-paintings-at-their-oakville-gallery/) - reposting summer n grace's video promoting our new work at their new Oakville Gallery their video clip included several winterlight works which i can add to a followup post. summergracegallery Through layered acrylics and intricate brushwork, Michael Zarowsky invites us into the quiet rhythms of the natural world. His luminous paintings, inspired by - [drifting past daylight / nov / dec show](https://zarowsky.net/drifting-past-daylight-nov-dec-show/) - every year all year long we offer first choice of every new work to the galleries repping us. this year is no different, except that after supplying each of the galleries one by one with their choices we kept painting and now have a number of new works we want to share with our clients - [sunbright as a series](https://zarowsky.net/sunbright-as-a-series/) - sunbright (beaver pond hardy lake) is latest in my new series exploring ways of 'coming to the light ahead' / following the 'further now to distances' ideas / watercolour acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 18" x 24" / 1300. For everyone interested sunbright day beaver pond hardy lake / 18" x 24" - [scout flakes](https://zarowsky.net/scout-flakes/) - base line rd sutton spring melt with airborne snowflakes filled a need to work up a painting of this stretch of baseline road running parallel with and just a block south of lake simcoe in sutton that i would drive past everytime i came up to take my dad to sunnybrook for his mac degen - [simplified directness](https://zarowsky.net/simplified-directness/) - first year in a long time we actually have a wonderful collection of new winter pieces at both the Petroff Gallery and at Summer and Grace Gallery. still working on new winters for Arta; working on some of my most direct winterlights yet simplified visual walkthru's into de light late day - [bottomless](https://zarowsky.net/bottomless/) - really like how oct nov changes make water blacker than bottomless has to be part of the air turning bluer come fall, find different kind of clarity for me from the summer, and it can't just be that the trees have given up their cover although it's cool to be able to - [salt kettle mornings](https://zarowsky.net/salt-kettle-mornings/) - got comments from friends who support our work and i always take the time to hear what they say....so reposting the entire post one of those hunting for one painting and coming across another from our days at Martha's, thats' been laaaaaying about flat in the shelves and is worthy of a look so i - [late day sun streaming thru the forest](https://zarowsky.net/late-day-sun-streaming-thru-the-forest/) - simple composition along the trunk trail running south of and parallel to 12 mile bay rd in georgian bay of late day long shadows stretching back thru the forest as the sun dips down to the treeline and below offering up long fingered rhythms of light in among the trees standing tall late - [local wild](https://zarowsky.net/new-open-winter-stream/) - always looking for the wild in any / every place simple stream winding thru bruces mill outside of stouffeville which i have snowshoed thru for over 20 years in the winter usually the morning after an overnight snowfall since it is a mere half hour our of the city. this same stream and immediate surrounding - [mistakes mistakes mistakes](https://zarowsky.net/mistakes-mistakes-mistakes/) - it happened again. a now and then almost hair pulling recurring problem with work posted on the website i have is missing adding the whereabouts of a particular painting; in this case, after having searched the studio twice over, i checked the lists of works out at galleries, which is where i found it listed - [shadowlines.](https://zarowsky.net/shadowlines/) - shadowlines. natural designs based on winter light. rhythms of light running down the hillside. a thicket of young saplings each with it's own stuck on snow standing upright in among the timely creeping shadowlines, in among the downhill streamers of daylight. sunlight streaming down the shadow side of winter 2 12" - [new small winters at Summer & Grace Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-small-winters-at-summer-grace-gallery/) - met with Alix at Summer n Grace and she and Cindy earlier, picked out 14 new pieces (many new small winterlight works) for the gallery....had dropped by the womens' art association earlier with my 'summer in paris with peacock' entry for the upcoming SCA Exhibition at their Dignam Gallery.....and after summer and - [bermuda window](https://zarowsky.net/bermuda-window/) - was looking thru all the loose smaller works here, one of those hunting for one painting and coming across another, this one from from our days at Martha's, that's been laaaaaying about flat in the shelves and is worthy of a look so i popped it into a matt sun touched salt kettle window / - [instant ponds](https://zarowsky.net/instant-ponds/) - part of what i like about this time of year; with the air changes shallow ponds octobering into bottomless black reflections slow drift no drift of october yellows across a deep dark reflection 16" x 10" watercolour on arches paper available 350.00 this small watercolour study has had a good amount of interest combined - [last one from swans along river thames series](https://zarowsky.net/last-one-from-swans-along-river-thames-series/) - got an email about my swans from the river thames series from a while back and a quick search turned up this watercolour of them huddled together as if.... swans / riverboat reflections along river thames 12.5" x 17" watercolour on arches paper available 450.00 - [new winterlight pieces at Petroff](https://zarowsky.net/new-winterlight-pieces-at-petroff/) - over thanksgiving Erin at Petroff kindly let us know there was a lot of interest in our longer winterlight pieces across the weekend and so left 3 more such winter works with them at the gallery. one of which ..... titles as..... 'trail thru - [autumn adding fantasy to realism](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-adding-fantasy-to-realism/) - always interested in comments so reposting with comments after the initial post; looking back, started this painting over a year ago; having worked a simpler flow of colours put it up in the studio as an idea that needed to be more intimate with which comes from seeing it constantly over the course of the - [new fall works from dan lake at Arta's October Group Show](https://zarowsky.net/new-fall-works-from-dan-lake-at-artas-october-group-show/) - Oct 18 – 31 new fall works from Dan lake at Arta Gallery's October Group Show, Arta Gallery, the Distillery, Toronto - ['winter stream' in 73rd Colour & Form Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/winter-stream-in-73rd-colour-form-juried-exhibition/) - most of the time i arrive in the dark and either a quick nap in the back or just thermos out a coffee and watch the night lose its dark, the day begin, watch the sun peer over the edge of our world, and as it climbs above the treeline everything that froze covered over - [new winter light pieces at squarefootshow.com](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-pieces-at-squarefootshow-com/) - have worked up 5 new winter pieces as part of upcoming squarefootshow 'landscapes' on October 9, 2025! - [summer in paris with peacock in SCA EMJ Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/summer-in-paris-with-peacock-in-sca-emj-exhibition/) - BIG Thank You to the judges of the SCA Elected members Juried Exhibition who saw enough merit in my watercolour, 'summer in paris with peacock', to want to jury it into this upcoming exhibition. October 29th thru November 10th, 2025 my entry can be seen both online and in person at the Dignam Gallery on - [an intimacy with the autumn light](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-morning/) - taken its own time to get this far. finished happy. for now. further down elm avenue ........ exploring.... .......an intimacy with the autumn light.... autumn morning in the city 48" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 3200 for everyone interested - [me portrait](https://zarowsky.net/me-portrait/) - was up this afternoon at my for now, usual spot to spray the new work, wwwwaiting for the sealant to air dry and noticed a me portrait of the moment that might be fun to share as a recent image of me. that the crop squares however faint, are still visible from previous sprayings shows - [my way of seeing](https://zarowsky.net/15472-2/) - adding a comment here on one aspect of understand my work which i rarely ever talk to anyone about, and given what those viewing my work talk to me about, i feel that what i present in paintings as paintings, that my view, is just one view of as many ways to view it as - [out of season melt](https://zarowsky.net/out-of-season-melt/) - i work slow. finishing ideas begun when outside was still a blank blanket of white. Late winter has its own colour magic. like the snow on top of the ice on frozen pond melting in the warmth of the sun freeing pine needles enriching floating streaks of surface water from naples thru siennas / of - [part of this october's squarefootshow](https://zarowsky.net/part-of-this-october-squarefootshow/) - i'd like to think that i carry all the ideas we were able to express thru paint in my head with me as i start working anew each winter, treating each winter as a blank blanket of snow, wandering thru sunny days after new snowfalls looking for and making our own magic from what surrounds - [float spreading sparkles](https://zarowsky.net/float-spreading-sparkles/) - Wendy n i feel / think we're interacting / engaging with water in creating our own patterns and water is interacting / engaging with us by flowing along with those possibilities quite ok with stopping working further on this airy adventurous departure of infinity rings float-spreading a dazzle of sparkles thru a colony of waterlilies - [light night on the pond](https://zarowsky.net/light-night-on-the-pond/) - one of several in an ongoing series of moonlit nights on the pond along 12 mile bay rd. feel i was able to get close to the slate blue ? sheen of the light on the water where the moon was not directly bathing in the water without making it look dirty or overworked. - [more dry than stream](https://zarowsky.net/more-dry-than-stream/) - working on paper again, funny to say that, but the paint mood swings from panel to paper and back are alive and kicking again. looking back finding was locking into panel into thinking a wee bit to linearly and prefer chaos as norm to anything orderly small streamette running into the saugeen river, which - [catching delight](https://zarowsky.net/catching-delight/) - surprisingly, for decades, margaret lake has offered us up wind stirred water patterns drifting in and out among flotillas of pickerel weeds sailing, while rooted along the shoreline, allowed us to circle out and infinite number of infinity rings after infinity rings, turned autumn into deep deep reflections of reds yellows oranges greens all flowing - [rain restored autumn stream](https://zarowsky.net/rain-restored-autumn-stream/) - not advocating anything but i keep noticing that stream after stream, small shallow lake after drying up and my take is the nonstop constant never ending sucking out / draining of water by corporations to fill plastic water bottles to sell us back our water. the big surprise for me is that as far - [infinity rings is the 57th SCA Juried Exhibition.](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-is-the-57th-sca-juried-exhibition/) - happy to post my entry 'infinity rings with red leaves floating' was juried into the SCA"s 57th Juried Exhibition online at their website from Aug 27th thru Sept 30th, 2025 Dear, Chèr(e) Micheal Zarowsky, Congratulations! On behalf of the SCA, it is our pleasure to inform you that your artworkMicheal Zarowsky, Infinity rings with red leaves - [autumn wetland reflections](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-wetland-reflections/) - having some success with autumn pond reflections on panel. this one really works. works on paper i understand even though it is also understood that understanding what is involved will not get the finished work across the finish line regardless of whether it is on paper or panel but working fall ponds on panel is - [autumn reflecting](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-reflecting/) - water in rhythm grouping gathering collecting leaves float drifting by, across random blue strips of alternating reflecting sky inbetween patches of bottom looking up at sky reflecting blue as leaves float on by autumn reflections on the pond, 22" x 30" watercolour on arches paper / available 2300.00 - [fall reflections](https://zarowsky.net/fall-reflections/) - stream running thru autumn georgian bay road / 22" x 22" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / wetlands pages / 1680. - [summer group show at Arta](https://zarowsky.net/summer-group-show-at-arta/) - simple notice. have been working towards as to have 9 new works at Arta Gallery's Summer Group Show August 14th thru 31st in the Distillery..... - [published generosities](https://zarowsky.net/published-generosities/) - feeling blessed in a new way this year. Over the summer, Garry Hamilton, asked to include several of my works in his book 'the artists eye', which was a real treat for me as it did provide a momentary positive about how other artists felt about my work. time lies, so it feels like - [2nd entry into Northern Beauty Online Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/2nd-entry-into-northern-beauty-online-exhibition/) - my follow up notice of 2nd entry gaining juried acceptance into the Northern Beauty Online Exhibition. Northern Beauty Online Juried Art Exhibition - Canada only Jury Outcome Dear Micheal Zarowsky, Congratulations! Your submission: #115 titled: Blue Sky Day has been selected by our online jury for inclusion in the exhibition. We’re thrilled to include - [northern beauty online exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/northern-beauty-online-exhibition/) - got acceptance notice for both my entries into the Northern Beauty Online Exhibition. Northern Beauty Online Juried Art Exhibition - Canada only Jury Outcome Dear Micheal Zarowsky, Congratulations! Your submission: #116 titled: Summer Water Dazzle , has been selected by our online jury for inclusion in the exhibition. We’re thrilled to include your work in - [boats with biiiiirds / biiiiirds with boats](https://zarowsky.net/boats-with-biiiiirds-biiiiirds-with-boats/) - Wendy and I want to share with you that in between everything else going on, we have been finding extra,a spare, time, is there such a thing? working for a good part of last year and this year on a number of smaller paintings, some of which had been posted back then, even though we - [summering peacock](https://zarowsky.net/summering-peacock/) - with the TOAF a fun memory, back to working further on several projects, including another look past the 4 parisian interiors i worked up last month, all out the door, so as well as the new 'parisian interior with cat' posted a day before, looking thru the paper here found the last parisian backyard watercolour - [cat interiors](https://zarowsky.net/cat-interiors/) - the 4 parisian interiors i worked up last month all went out the door. sunday was first chance i had to see if there are any more parisian cat interiors in me. cat in a parisian interior (5) 13.5" x 23" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 700. - [AI review of our work.....who'da thought](https://zarowsky.net/ai-review-of-our-work-whoda-thought/) - while checking out art auctions results, some 66+ of our works have gone up for resale in the last few years across the slew of auction houses, came across an AI review of our work. on the one hand the resale of our work indicates changes in the owners status, moved on, died, and on - [trail thru a sunlit clearing](https://zarowsky.net/trail-thru-a-sunlit-clearing/) - snow shoeing thru snow belt snow forests on a blue sky day following someone else tracks running off southwood road to hopefully somewhere interesting. never did find out as i broke trail here and wandered out of the clearing following the long flowing sun shadows back into the pine forest. trail thru a sunlit clearing - [new work at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-arta-gallery-4/) - dropped off 11 new works with Talia at Arta Gallery this morning including one of our latest summer water dazzle works - 48" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel the white areas in this painting seem to invoke references to david milne's work which is a bit of a stretch, as - [sunbright day](https://zarowsky.net/sunbright-day/) - sunbright day 2 / looking out thru the shored treeline shadows to the golden light bathing the front line growth on a day full of clear light. the snowcovered beaver pond is at Hardy Lake Prov Pk., my new go to snowbelt to snowshoe thru looking for natural sunline designs on winter. 16" x 23 - [flecks of light](https://zarowsky.net/flecks-of-light/) - it's summer; looking out onto any lake pond wider river on a clear blue sky day Wendy and i get mesmerized by the flecks of light bouncing off dancing on the surface of the shimmering water. this is the flowing summer water dazzle we are working to put across thru paint. summer water dazzle 40" - [new summer water dazzle](https://zarowsky.net/new-summer-water-dazzle-2/) - we had found a tiny lake south of lake of bays where we plunked down and watched the water come ashore amazed on how deep the greens of the reflection were when 4 mallards swam across our view and Wendy got them to come ashore with bits of bread and her smile. i worked out - [and just like that it's over](https://zarowsky.net/and-just-like-that-its-over/) - started with a morning cloudburst spilling only half the available water in the world as everyone opened their tents this morning was followed by blue skies and rising heat and poof the show is over. i don't care for the silence that drops like a thud after a show. it's not like the silence up - [HOT HOT HOT WITH A BREEZE](https://zarowsky.net/hot-hot-hot-with-a-breeze/) - Hot today. n'uff said. what was special for me was the response to our new winter pieces. i had several paintings underneath a desert tray dolly which serves as our movable table, while talking of the winter piece son the walls, thought to pull out one which was put away; the the first people to - [hot hot hot](https://zarowsky.net/hot-hot-hot/) - it was hot. it is still kinda hot. didn't mind the heat; would have been nice to go for a swim, even so, more than survived it. it is summer and summers are hot, always were when i was a kid and are hot now when i am a kid at heart. what was really - [2nd paris interior after 3 n 4](https://zarowsky.net/2nd-paris-interior-after-3-n-4/) - this april in paris with cats is a bit more imaginatively abstract than the others. the chair on the right full of pillows and cats and a dog with a balcony door fitted behind it balance against the left side with arranged chairs and coffee tables sprouting a cat with a raised butt and flat - [new april in paris with cats](https://zarowsky.net/new-april-in-paris-with-cats/) - 3rd and 4th of my new april in paris interiors with cats, having posted the first 2 a month or so earlier, where the inhabitants are ignoring us busily going about their day each is 12" x 12" x 1 3/4" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / only the 2nd - [now and then. more now than then](https://zarowsky.net/now-and-then-more-now-than-then/) - now and then. more now than then ..... it's like that ... .some days post nada zilch nothing ...... but then of course never even occurs to me to post more regularly.....and now having worked out everything that needs be worked out before the TOAF, have some free time and over posting? anyways, have a - [summer full of water](https://zarowsky.net/summer-full-of-water/) - visit us this weekend at the TOAF in Zone A at Booth 82 a summer full of water lily with pickerel weed margaret lake 12" x 10" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 200.00 - [slow wave](https://zarowsky.net/slow-wave-2/) - will be at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair this coming weekend, in Zone A / Booth 82 / just north of the pool with a display of new small to large pieces. simplicity of a slow wave taking its time coming - [southwood rd forests](https://zarowsky.net/southwood-rd-forests/) - closer to finished. feeling the light sweep thru trail thru a blue sky day 30" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 2600. - [my work included in a new artbook; The Artist's Eye](https://zarowsky.net/my-work-included-in-a-new-artbook-the-artists-eye/) - i first heard of Garry Hamilton, a cool Montreal watercolourist, when he had a show up a Lin Souliere's gallery in owen sound; i next met him at a few of the watercolour society's board meetings when if i remember right, for a short while, we were both directors on the board, and i wandered - [autumn with raindrops. divine lake](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-with-raindrops-divine-lake/) - autumn with raindrops, divine lake 32" x 23 1/2" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 2300 / also on riverside screens page Wendys mum used to live in Port Sydney, and ever following free lodging we explored that whole corner of muskoka; divine lake was and is to be - [new pine study](https://zarowsky.net/new-pine-study/) - Sunny daylite pic of foggy fall day at Arrowhead with the pines rising out / emerging out of the bottom fog covering the river below 'pines overlooking stubbs falls' 38" x 22" / acrylic / watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2600. / also posted in meditations on autumn page visit us come - [new work for the TOAF](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-for-the-toaf-2/) - latest Winterlight for the TOAF new trails from sunfilled snow days from this last winter from more local wanderings just outside the city. trail thru sunlight / walkers woods 34" x 34'" / acrylic / watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2700. / visit us come July 11-13, in Zone A - [sunbright](https://zarowsky.net/sunbright/) - it is may and i am working on new winter ideas and am pretty sure most people who visit are tired of winter and will move from ever visiting here again. no apologies as this is my first chance to get some of these ideas out of my head the last few months being a - [new work for TOAF](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-for-toaf/) - for those who came down last year and loved our winterlight, and took our winter home with them, and with the TOAF a month or so away, we are working up some totally new ideas from this winter which had so much snow it was for periods of time inaccessible to snowshoe and as such - [painting stuff off the back burner](https://zarowsky.net/painting-stuff-off-the-back-burner/) - . reposting here my response to a comment by fellow artist Scott Rubie, on our interiors. just to clear up i have not made at directional change. the short dialogue exchange was fun because i had to bring my thinking up to date in my own head about whether it was a move or - [a gathering of chairs](https://zarowsky.net/a-gathering-of-chairs/) - welcoming spring with looking for magic in a 2nd ordinary parisian interior and red chair interior, paris 12"x12" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel 350. - [april in paris](https://zarowsky.net/april-in-paris/) - welcoming spring with new airy parisian interiors april in paris 12"x12" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel 350 - [blue sky day at Arta](https://zarowsky.net/blue-sky-day-at-arta/) - spoke with Yas at Arta Gallery about location of my blue sky day painting being shown at the Gallery....... .......it occurs to me that sharing location info might create specific interest in the work otherwise unavailable. .....virtually all the winter paintings express ideas I came upon found created while snowshoeing wherever I could find sunshine - [booth # at toronto outdoor art fair](https://zarowsky.net/booth-at-toronto-outdoor-art-fair/) - the more you have going on, the fuller your day, the faster time goes or least it seems that way around here. good news. Have a booth assigned to us for the toronto outdoor art fair coming in july. Zone A - Booth 82 and am working now on adding new works to - [beyond finished](https://zarowsky.net/beyond-finished/) - we continue to work winter light all across the year. at times there is more to the idea that simply leaving it alone for a spell reveals. posted this before, it was done then, came across it looking for another painting, stopped looking for the other painting, and worked this idea further to a new - [sublime reflections](https://zarowsky.net/sublime-reflections/) - islands floating on sunlight reflections / muskoka river 28" x 22" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2300. - [georgian bay on my mind](https://zarowsky.net/georgian-bay-on-my-mind/) - wendy and i had a experienced local take us out to and up the length of Baie Fine simply not only because of the risk of unpredictability of open water on georgian bay which meant we would need a larger vessel which would only come with its own navigator, which was super fine with us, - [wren lake](https://zarowsky.net/wren-lake/) - worked this idea further before heading out to Arta Gallery for a late night fun meet n greet 6 to 9 pm tiny lake spans both sides of 35 with short stretch of waterfront road lined with birches autumn looking thru to wren lake 26" x 20" watercolour on arches paper available 1890 - [losing it](https://zarowsky.net/losing-it/) - losing it. came across several works on paper that had been filed away where they ought not have been filed away and posted 2 of them on instagram / followed by wonderful follow up comments and interest and then the painting disappeared. searched the studio twice. it's here, just nowhere where i looked. no where - [Juried into the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair](https://zarowsky.net/juried-into-the-toronto-outdoor-art-fair/) - Your TOAF Jury Results April 2, 2025 Dear Micheal Zarowsky, Congratulations! I am delighted to inform you that our jury has selected your work in the Painting category as part of the 64th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair at Nathan Phillips Square July 11 - 13 and Online at TOAF.ca. Our external and multidisciplinary panel - [SCA 2025 Open International Juried Online Exhibition.](https://zarowsky.net/sca-2025-open-international-juried-online-exhibition/) - Hello micheal zarowsky, Thank you for entering the SCA 2025 Open International Juried Online Exhibition. We are pleased to inform you that your work Your entry 12718.576018.2157933 Micheal Zarowsky, Sunrise, Watercolour - Acrylic On Gessoed Panel, , price: 2500.00 is accepted to be part of this exhibition. We invite you to peruse the exhibition on - [new infinity rings on panel](https://zarowsky.net/new-infinity-rings-on-panel/) - up to now i worked this series of infinity rings out on paper so while this one has a different feel, which i like, which is the point, which i also like; i like both ways of working if only because working it out on panel brought out different issues to deal with than those - [new work from dan lake](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-from-dan-lake/) - 3rd painting from a sunfilled late fall wander thru previously unexplored parts of dan lake. what was different was how solidly blue everything in the shadows was only broken by shafts of daylight streeeeaking thru. Wendy says it will definitely enliven any nook or cranny it may be hung in. this is a first. don't - [autumn all daylong](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-all-daylong/) - at times you can't see the stream for the dropped leaves floating like a venetian regatta down the main canal rendering submarine invisible the salmon swimming upstream to spawn. all daylong reflections; autumn; joshua creek; oakville 48" x 24" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 2800. further posted in the - [reds screen](https://zarowsky.net/reds-screen/) - this one is now a complete gathering of moments found inbetween other moments doing other things autumn reds / screen from / along 12 mile lake rd 30" x 34.5" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 2650.00 - [sundulating](https://zarowsky.net/slow-wave/) - working fall into the water avoiding the obvious joke of getting carried away, - [cool opening](https://zarowsky.net/cool-opening/) - A happy post. My entry 'infinity rings with red leaf floating' was juried into CSPWC 100th Anniversary Exhibition at Roberts Gallery opening today running for a couple of weeks. A show full of masterful works in a cool setting. in fact the head honcho of the outfit, Marlene Madole said of my piece; a - [CSPWC 100th Anniversary at Roberts](https://zarowsky.net/cspwc-100th-anniversary-at-roberts/) - Happy that the jury found enough merit in my entry “Infinity rings with red leaf floating” Hours: Tues - Sat 10-5pm Roberts Gallery 631 Dupont Street, Toronto, M6G 1Z4 available at Roberts. 2300.00 - [dory paintings at square foot show](https://zarowsky.net/dory-paintings-at-square-foot-show/) - coastal square foot show opens at 8 p.m. march 13th runs 24 hours to leave it in their words.... Hello Micheal Zarowsky, We are thrilled to announce our next show: COASTAL 🌊 As you may know, Square Foot Show began as a small, annual art party at Julia Veenstra’s studio in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada—each - [islands in the sun](https://zarowsky.net/islands-in-the-sun/) - stiff today after a day of snowshoeing thru the sunlight that was muskoka yesterday / finished working on islands growing out of a shallow stretch of the muskoka river islands floating on sunlight reflections islands floating on sunlight reflections muskoka river 28" x 22" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed - [provencal watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/provencal-watercolour/) - 2nd watercolour on arches paper ( eau de source, provence 16" x 11" (matted at 23x18 ) ) 350 from a search thru the flat file cabinet storing many many many works on paper from earlier and ongoing painting trip. - [early watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/early-watercolour/) - putting up 2 works on paper; first one overlooked ? for years as it we've enjoyed it hanging in the kitchen and never considered it for sale before. tabletop fleurs for van gogh, 11.5" x 8" (framed at 18x15) 225. watercolour on arches paper 2nd one ( eau de source, - [winter crossing over into fall watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/winter-crossing-over-into-fall-watercolour/) - Edmund, included my 'creek meandering past where the winter gods live', in his gallery opening 'beyond time and space exhibition' and following up with my rambling interview just before the opening, he has since added the visual jpeg of my work into the online display of all the works in the show https://ymartgallery.ca/products/creek-meandering-past-where-the-winter-god-lives - [open endedness of infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/open-endedness-of-infinity-rings/) - My entry 'infinity rings with red leaf floating' was juried into the CSPWC society's 100th Anniversary Exhibition at Roberts Gallery in Toronto opening on March 15th / thru 29th at 631 dupont st. toronto thinking here is the spiralling galaxy openness of the infinity rings takes you off the page and into your thoughts and - [CSPWC 100th anniversary open water exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/cspwc-100th-anniversary-open-water-exhibition/) - A happy post. A big thank you to the judges who saw enough merit in my piece to include it in the show. My entry 'infinity rings with red leaf floating' was juried into the CSPWC society's 100th Anniversary Exhibition to be held at Roberts Gallery in Toronto March 15 - 29th, 2025 exhibition opens - [birch pond](https://zarowsky.net/birch-pond-2/) - recent posts have been all about new winter pieces including some pieces which have been sitting here, waiting to be worked further / to be finished; 12 mile bay road has been one of our go to places for wandering off the beaten track via the network of trunk trails running westward and coming upon, - [surprise opening](https://zarowsky.net/surprise-opening/) - got a call couple days ago from Edmund of the YM Gallery in Richmond Hill that he was including one of my winter pieces in his exhibition opening today. good to be at an opening again. Beyond Time and Space Exhibition YM Gallery 100 West beaver Creek, unit 13 Richmond Hill www.ymartgallery.ca creek meandering - [adjusted visual distance](https://zarowsky.net/14977-2/) - reposting the sunlight running up the hillside with a mat around it only because i feel it needs distance to properly be seen. sunlight after an overnight snowfall 12" x 16" watercolour on baohong paper / 400. https://zarowsky.net/gallery/winter/winterlight-2-small-works/ - [new ideas on new paper](https://zarowsky.net/new-ideas-on-new-paper/) - small studies on Baohong paper / had worked up all of my stash of arches, weren’t no loot at present for more so this fresh infusion of Baohong paper gets me all excited again about looking to design-ify simplicity into found light running thru the forests that make up the magic of this oh so - [new works on paper](https://zarowsky.net/new-works-on-paper/) - Find I can wander towards abstract by simplifying colours my first look at the Baohong w/c paper that made up my award at the CSPWC open water exhibition last year small studies on paper for what i put all w/c paper thru, and believe me it is not pretty, it works just as well as - [winter magic](https://zarowsky.net/winter-magic/) - ordinary magic making up my winter this year. daylight stretching shadows across the snowcovered stream 16" x 20" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available / 680. - [city creek](https://zarowsky.net/city-creek/) - a meandering creek emptying into lake ontario; Wendy and I have painted trilliums n trout lilies and jack in the pulpits, on and on, as springtime carpeted the forest floor; come fall the i have watched salmon swim upstream to lay their eggs and smelled the sewage from the neighbouring whatever wafting on the breezes - [new winter watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-watercolour/) - worked up from my wandering last weeks sunlit morning after an overnight dusting of snow north tract york forest hwy 48 with the deadline of friday approaching, for now it is in the running as one of 2 possible entries into the CSPWC Exhibition coming up / 30" x 22" watercolour on arches paper available - [floating thru autumn](https://zarowsky.net/floating-thru-autumn/) - looking down a narrow inlet of the pond thru the floating everywhichway red leaf regatta i find autumn is a continuous morph thru reds to endless yellows to..... so had to keep reminding myself to a few colours 'autumn pond with reflection' 40" x 36" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [colour pond](https://zarowsky.net/colour-pond/) - water abstract colour Stillness of an autumn pond 24" x 36" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 2600. - [New summer water dazzle](https://zarowsky.net/new-summer-water-dazzle/) - it is snowing all around me / finally got outside n' photoed this tall stretch of water in the alcove doorway summer water dazzle 11 48" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 2800. - [sundown, grundy lake](https://zarowsky.net/sundown-grundy-lake-2/) - taken a while to get it here; stacked where ever we found room after Summer and Grace took one for their december Joy 111 Exhibition, Wendy and i have worked out any and all the dull out of this painted moment; one of 3 still available out of 6 making up this series. 'sundown grundy - [new in 'summer water dazzle' series](https://zarowsky.net/new-in-summer-water-dazzle-series/) - continuing to work out flowing water patterns, floating water patterns, explaining is not complaining. this is on the first of 4 panels originally made for a possible commission ( panels which i would never have had made at this time) which went south before any discussion of what it would / could be about let - [autumn morning dan lake](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-morning-dan-lake/) - not being the same in the least - working on paper and on panel - working out - the what and how of 'fall' ideas on panel is more new than not so not knowing what is possible and what's not, allows me to trial and error forward towards the idea that greeted me that - [night walk](https://zarowsky.net/night-walk/) - a looser looking look around the city night walk elm avenue < click on image to enlarge > 16" x 16" watercolour acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [Happy New Year - 2 0 2 5](https://zarowsky.net/happy-new-year-2-0-2-5/) - sending out spiritual cat to gingerly step into the new year - [a most difficult year](https://zarowsky.net/difficult-year/) - christmas missed us this year as we crashed burned sleeping our fool heads off - 30 hours in one stretch - now thursday, trying to get over being bushwacked by a flu completely out of nowhere last sunday night feeling like a truck ran over us, cancelling this, re scheduling that, dragging ourselves over - [Seasons Greetings / Happy Holidays to / for Everyone](https://zarowsky.net/seasons-greetings-happy-holidays-to-for-everyone/) - Seasons Greetings / Happy Holidays to / for Everyone one of my fav paintings of the year, as close to a perfect composition as they come. - [winter in the city](https://zarowsky.net/winter-in-the-city/) - working ideas from around the city / new snow back of caroline st leslieville, 16" x 16" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 550. - [overnight snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/overnight-snowfall-3/) - latest winter snowfall. overnight snowfall 26" x 36" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [red verandah](https://zarowsky.net/red-verandah/) - when i came upon what would become red verandah, i immediately thought of Philip Guston and his wall of shoe soles. kinda free of Philip after this. red verandah < click on image to enlarge > 12" x 10" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 300. - [Autumn. Dan Lake](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-dan-lake-2/) - sunrise. autumn. dan lake 22" x 32" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available. 2300. maybe it's my 'new' eyes, but as the sun rose above the treeeeline the retreating shadows were alive with a blue i can't quite ever remember seeing before. - [riverdale artwalk holiday smalls show](https://zarowsky.net/riverdale-artwalk-holiday-smalls-show/) - i have 2 winter pieces juried into the riverdale artwalk holiday smalls show catching the light 12 x 12 w/c - acrylic on panel 350. Exhibition Dates: Dec. 4 to Jan 5, 2025 Opening Reception & Holiday Party: Thurs. Dec 5, 6-9pm Gallery Location: 1158 Queen St. E (Queen & Jones) Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through - [wintering cardinals](https://zarowsky.net/wintering-cardinals/) - stopped after the 3rd cardinal finding its way into my winter pieces, and yet here is the 5th such idea with a visiting red guy. overnight snowfall with wintering cardinal 16" x16" < chirp on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 550. - [99th CSPWC Baohong Artists' W/C Paper Award for Open Water](https://zarowsky.net/99th-cspwc-baohong-artists-w-c-paper-award-for-open-water/) - a wonderfully surprising email from Shelley, chair of the 99th CSPWC Open Water Exhibition. Thu 11/21/2024 11:23 PM Shelley Prior Fine Art shelleypriorfineart@gmail.com To micheal zarowsky micheal@zarowsky.net Congratulations Micheal! Your Painting 'Overnight Snowfall with Pine' has been chosen for the Baohong Artists' Watercolour Paper award for Open Water 2024. Comments - [light across the stream](https://zarowsky.net/light-across-the-stream/) - i like the idea that in looking thru a screen of interwoven rhythms of view-obscuring-trees to the water not everything is revealed and there seems no urgency to wander in among them to the waters edge. accessing this particular wild waterfront tangle in from the stream running thru Bruces Mill off Stouffeville sideroad, involved wandering - [new work at Dragonfly on Broadway](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-dragonfly-on-broadway/) - an exciting time of year to wander........ this starkness of autumn, now that the trees have been almost stripped of leaves showing sky between the branches, when most of autumn colour is a ground quilt, when reflections show bottomless black .... driving thru late autumn to Joan's Dragonfly on Broadway in Orangeville yesterday to deliver - [new small winters available](https://zarowsky.net/new-small-winters-available/) - working out new small winter pieces celebrating the coming season. late day open winter stream 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gesseod panel /available 350. < enlarge image by simply clicking on it > Ed Reliuga Amazing, Michael. . At first, I didn't even recognize this as something by - [new small winters](https://zarowsky.net/new-small-winters/) - New small winters. A sweep of daylight 12" x 12" / watercolour acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel < click on image to enlarge > / available 350. annnnnnd.....comments on the work Ed Reliuga If this painting was edible....I know it would be absolutely delicious. (,a new way to - [3rd wintering cardinal](https://zarowsky.net/3rd-wintering-cardinal/) - 3rd and final of the short 'wintering cardinal' series overnight snowfall with wintering cardinal 18" x 18" < chirp on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 680. - [winter colour](https://zarowsky.net/winter-colour/) - missed posting the 2nd of 3 wintering birds as i wasn't quite happy with it till now; vertical, snow lines climbing mimicking the format of a Japanese painting for a cardinal to flit up on. snowpine with cardinal 24" x 12" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / - [joy 111](https://zarowsky.net/joy-111/) - 4 of my new works have been juried into the Joy 111 Holiday Show at Summer and Grace Gallery in Oakville, opening on November 28th 5 - 9 pm. Susan asks for an rsvp via Eventbrite something you can find a link in their bio on her website. @summergracegallery - [prints](https://zarowsky.net/prints/) - did a quick check on a side venture a few years back, when Rosenstiels and Sons, added a number of our pieces to their catalogue of artist they rep, and found while my work is still posted in their online webpage, they are probably in whatever dead file pile they shuffle work off to, as - [farther now to distances](https://zarowsky.net/farther-now-to-distances-2/) - stepping back, as much as following the 'sunlines' series of winter pieces with all the ribbons of light flowing in over the forest floors, the work is all about the light, these few < farther now to distances (1 ) 16x20 > are more about promises, about the light not yet reached, still ahead, - [contemporary impressionism](https://zarowsky.net/14753-2/) - lastly, in updating the bio, I see my work as contemporary impressionism. currently focused on light, atmosphere, and transparency of water, my explorations thru painted waters edges and forest floors emphasize vibrancy, transparency and interelationships that exists between found shapes and natural colors. The paintings are detailed enough to make them a blend of impressionism - [continuing updating bio; move to working on panel](https://zarowsky.net/continuing-updating-bio/) - ( My description of working watercolours on gessoed panels. Not sure this doesn’t merely repeat the previous paragraph. “ Never one to be contained by any medium, i have over the years made continuous leaps forward to take the watercolour medium in new directions opening new possibilities, & have once again done so here. I - [beginnings update](https://zarowsky.net/beginnings-update/) - have always tried to be able to verbally some what describe what we are going thru in and with our work. had occasion to seriously rethink or at least update our thinking about our work and did so going all the way back to our earliest days when we first began painting when the work - [looking for 'the wild' in wherever](https://zarowsky.net/looking-for-the-wild-in-wherever/) - looking to see 'the wild' in wherever we is, sunspeckled trail after an overnight snowfall watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 30" x 32" / available 2600. < click on image to enlarge enough to visually walk thru> - [migrating colours](https://zarowsky.net/migrating-colours/) - wintering bird flittering up and down new pines growing in between the snowcovered rockcut outcroppings along hwy 28 around eels creek overnight snowfall with cardinal 24"x16" < klic on image to enlarge > watercolour painted directly on gessoed panelavailable 980. - [october reflections. gala lake. g bay.](https://zarowsky.net/october-reflections-gala-lake-g-bay/) - pure meditations on flat surfaces of specific abstract patterns, losing ourselves in discernible thought we come to understand them for what they are.Autumn pond reflection with ferns 24" x 16" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel / 980. < klik on image to enlarge > - [autumn. dan lake.](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-dan-lake/) - there are a number of shifting places i, we checkout whenever we get anywhere near them, and dan lake has continued as one source of several for infinity rings for over a decade. a year ago the rock mid inlet showed the water level had dropped several feet. last week with all the hi water, - [northern pine](https://zarowsky.net/northern-pine/) - after the storm. jack pine. northern pine g bay 30" x 24" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel ( posted in the riversIde screens page) available 2300. - [Madawaska River low water](https://zarowsky.net/madawaska-river-low-water/) - new challenges to break down (into) how i see (reposting from my other page) low water. madawaska river. algonquin pk. 36" x 24" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 2600. - [world that is the forest floor](https://zarowsky.net/world-that-is-the-forest-floor/) - by october when the forest floor is so overgrown it feels like a colour canopy beneath our feet with us like local gullivers negotiating our path thru our very own lilliputian forest. the warmth of autumn's randomness < click to enlarge / & posted in meditations on autumn page watercolour on arches paper / 20" - [new northern lake](https://zarowsky.net/northern-lake-2/) - a sense of anticipation / unseen mystery looking thru the screen until one gets to the waters edge; a good many places this marks not so much as close as i was able to get to the water as standing back and watching the view frame itself. sherborne lake access rd, which was flooded over - [dressed by autumn](https://zarowsky.net/dressed-by-autumn/) - not to sound overwhelmed, but having my usual more than full, close to being hectic, day even though it was my afternoon off; after sleeping off the effects of my latest mac degen shot today, which was super clean, no gritty aftereffects for some time now, now binge posting again, 3rd one today, to somewhat - [early reds](https://zarowsky.net/early-reds/) - having said this before, the focus of several of my new autumn pieces fits ....... "What I have always found and understood to be beautiful, has come when I am able to lose myself, become one with where I am; there is a completeness, then; everything is simple and everything is complicated at the same - [autumn wren lake](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-wren-lake/) - working thru fall ideas while autumn flutter floats colours drifting across october, wren lake offers a rare, hard to come across, tree lined shoreline screen full of birches and cedars and..... autumn wren lake' watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 23.5" x 30" < click on image to enlarge > available / - [northern lake](https://zarowsky.net/northern-lake/) - don't often speak of paintings that are / have sold simply out of respect of / for our clients privacy. in this case, more to do about the play out of events than interfering with anyone's privacy; just want to share a cool story of a gal who liked one of our works at the - [trails thru winter](https://zarowsky.net/trails-thru-winter-2/) - working some new winter ideas involving light in the distance as much as the details in the immediate upfront ground. tall pine forests along southwood road with trails running off beyond the wilderness. trail thru sunlight 22" x 28" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available - [Overnite Snofall juried into Open Water Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/overnite-snofall-juried-into-open-water-exhibition/) - Glad and Grateful the judges saw enough merit in my entry 'overnight snowfall with pine' to include it in the 99th CSPWC Open Water Exhibition. - [pines and sparkles](https://zarowsky.net/pines-and-sparkles/) - one of those everything on the water and in the air aliveness complete with the dazzle of sparkles. pines and sparkles. grundy lake. georgian bay 22" x 18" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 1100.00 - [september daze](https://zarowsky.net/september-daze/) - undulating. slow drift. across the late day. margaret lake. with pickerel weed. 14" x 21'" / 700.00 < click on image to enlarge > watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel so the use of acrylic here is limited to two coats of varnish. while common to see pickerel weed growing in a lot thicker regattas - [wetlands come autumn](https://zarowsky.net/wetlands-come-autumn/) - finding new magic in a beaver pond we haven't wandered back to in at least a decade Sunlight wrapped beaver pond / brunel rd. / 30" x 40" / watercolour acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2800. i find some days some visits to the many beaver ponds Wendy and i have had - [sketch from 12 mile lake](https://zarowsky.net/sketch-from-12-mile-lake/) - while waiting for a flood of watery paint to evaporate from the entire surface of a piece i am working on, (which sources from a brunel rd beaver pond), i was able to further one of the 12 mile lake sketches that has been sitting around here waiting for an inspired solution which in - [city in the country](https://zarowsky.net/city-in-the-country/) - Micheal Zarowsky rsoSopndetiPepmm86ht00a667e a1fe u2S30Mb7006156511:7 5rtut9a0a · Shared with Public been working on and posting more works on paper as of late; here the second of three country in the city works from markham street completely overgrown come october 'country in the city.' house on markham street 3 32" x 24" < click on image to enlarge > - [sundown grundy lake](https://zarowsky.net/sundown-grundy-lake/) - reworked this small series of sundown at grundy lake, looking for the balance between the sky blues and sun on the water.... sundown grundy lake 5 16" x 16" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour /acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 550. - [snow walking](https://zarowsky.net/snow-walking/) - ....ideas from the neighbourhood.... snow walking down sherborne st 16" x 20" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 680. - [skin ice](https://zarowsky.net/skin-ice/) - in always looking to best describe each work there is no time limit for coming to understand something about the work; last year titled a november pond off twelve mile bay rd., in georgian bay, with the ice beginning to freeze reach across the pond ( much like a flat skydome roof closing) focusing on - [posted comments](https://zarowsky.net/14579-2/) - cove, chikanishing trail, killarney, g bay 30" x 22" watercolour on arches paper. available 2300. and had a brand new gal from california visit our FB page and not only like some of our works, but show a personal thoughtfulness thru her comments about the works she liked; looking back our repeated back - [morning coffee](https://zarowsky.net/14571-2/) - More ideas from around the city / cabbagetown Morning coffee. 18"x 20" < click to enlarge > watercolour acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 1200. - [birch pond](https://zarowsky.net/birch-pond/) - a log log logging road branching off from livingston rd n of dorset becoming a grass covered atv track in places on its way to join up with hwy 60 at algonquin's edge, revealing several undisturbed beaver ponds in the middle of nowhere and everywhere. Birch pond / troutspawn rd birch pond / - ['sunrise with sprinkles' juried into 56th SCA Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/sunrise-with-sprinkles-juried-into-56th-sca-exhibition/) - a good news start to sunday Hello micheal zarowsky, Thank you for entering the SCA 56th Elected and Associate Members Juried Exhibition. We are pleased to inform you that your work Your entry(ies) 12030.557638.2096413 Sunrise with sprinkles grundy lake, watercolour & acrylic on p, price: 850.00 was(were) accepted to be part of this exhibition. - [2nd winter watercolour on paper](https://zarowsky.net/14540-2/) - latest watercolour. not making any big deal out of it.. working several winter ideas on paper for a project that is 'open coming' / except any painting that works for me is a privately and publicly a big deal. winter, takes my breath away. chaotic, unpredictable, repeatedly trying to overwhelmingly please by dressing - [new work on paper](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-on-paper/) - previously latest watercolour on paper a roadside forest along sunnidale rd n of angus i was able to wander thru the morning, unnoticed, at least until i got back to the truck where 3 deer were licking salt off it, at least i still hope it was salt. and the truck still runs. - [guest at this years' Bayview Outdoor Art Tour](https://zarowsky.net/guest-at-this-years-bayview-outdoor-art-tour/) - looking forward to taking part in the bayview outdoor art tour as a guest artist over the september 21 - 22 weekend. more info as i get it. < click on image to enlarge> - [painting the town](https://zarowsky.net/painting-the-town/) - looking for the everyday in the city painting the town carlaw n queen 18" x 24" < click on image to enlarge> watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gesseod panel available 1200. - [new floating boats watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/new-floating-boats-watercolours/) - thinking of boats as floating as opposed to beached both of which we have painted as we came upon them. over the spring worked up my own 'personal' equivalent of a flotilla of boats for 2 separate square foot shows, and for the Arta Gallery in the Distillery which currently is showing a dozen - [walking thru ideas within the city](https://zarowsky.net/walking-thru-ideas-within-the-city/) - working thru ideas within the city / particular moments wintering crows cabbagetown watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 1200. - [shallow to dry](https://zarowsky.net/shallow-to-dry/) - always fun getting any kind of response to our work. most recently, an almost forever fan's comments about our autumn on the pond painting posted here and on FB Ed Reliuga WOW! OMG! WHOA! HOLY SMOKE! I could keep going but, if I did....I wouldn't be able to stop. This work is - [overgrown reflections](https://zarowsky.net/overgrown-reflections/) - overgrown reflections autumn on the pond (2) 40" x 40" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 2900. - [flow to the snow](https://zarowsky.net/14466-2/) - the 2nd work that Hilary was referring to.....a dusting of snow i like lines that flow, enough of the arc around the fountain in our courtyard to flow, for me to thoughts of the steel patterned grates arounding the base of the trees lining the streets of paris. in this case the snow melted - [cityscapes](https://zarowsky.net/cityscapes/) - expanded the back burner to include ideas around the city with the Petroff Gallery in mind. ' winter morning around dundas and ossington' 18"x24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 1300. Hilary Clark Cole My god, Michael, you’re cooking! Reply Author Micheal Zarowsky thanks Hilary, am - [eramosa in winter watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/eramosa-in-winter-watercolour/) - its always a good day for catching snowflakes overnight snowfall cedars eramosa river 15" x 11" (framed 24x20) watercolour on arches paper available 750. Ed Reliuga How do you do it? How do you produce one amazing work after another? This one is, again, stunning. Micheal Zarowsky thanks Ed, glad you like. - [2nd w/c auctioned at cowley abbott](https://zarowsky.net/2nd-w-c-auctioned-at-cowley-abbott/) - the second watercolour in being put up for auction from back when we were wandering every spring thru wetlands blooming with wildflowers bringing spring into view, followed by marsh marigolds and wild irises and..... a tiny watercolour of marsh marigolds..... - "Brookside": signed and dated 1983 lower left; signed, dated, titled three times and - [more early watercolours up for resale in auction](https://zarowsky.net/more-early-watercolours-up-for-resale-in-auction/) - after a wonderful sun and rain splattered weekend at the city hall event.....thanks to everyone who came out and supported us.... .....was given a heads up from an art consultant, that one of our wonderful supporters / clients has recently died, (god bless her soul) and she has placed several of our early smaller watercolours - [magic of boats on water at the summer squarefootshow.com](https://zarowsky.net/magic-of-boats-on-water-at-the-summer-squarefootshow-com/) - squarefootshow.com goes live at 8pm, tonight making this a last minute post that 5 of my 'magic of boats on water' (none of the magic of boats not on water) go up for auction in a couple of hours. to quote Julia and her team; Hey there, art lover! Square Foot Show began as a - [zarowsky at TOAF this weekend](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-toaf-this-weekend/) - Hopefully everyone's enjoying the warmth that has made up our recent summer days. Finally. i like warm nights as they help heat up the lake water quicker.... Wendy and I invite you to visit us and see our new work at our booth 265 in zone D in this years, the 63rd Toronto Outdoor - [paris watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/paris-watercolour/) - from Wendy's own collection parc ile de cite paris 30" x 22" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour on arches paper available / 2500 - [july version of squarefootshow.com](https://zarowsky.net/july-version-of-squarefootshow-com/) - invited to a shorter squarefootshow........ july 11th thru 8 pm july 12th, 2024. ... .not in terms of inches but days....summer version.....and have worked up an original series, now counting 20 +, of magic of boats on water, and of some out of water, and have 5 of them in this upcoming online auction. - - [dogwood sunset. lost again](https://zarowsky.net/dogwood-sunset-3/) - from the red forest series, (or did the red forest series lateralize from the dogwood sunset pieces).. The red forest series grew out of losing myself in the woods a while back ... and...which i just did again wandering thru a patch of forest that was not in the map in my head. retracing - [muskoka river watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/muskoka-river-watercolour/) - there is a visual treat of a stretch of the muskoka river smooth running between mathiasville and a hydro dam on the east end with the riverside road winding mere inches from the waters edge along which birches lead a teetering existence, which we check out every time we get anywhere near if only to - [summer water](https://zarowsky.net/summer-water/) - ...afternooning the day away.. "slow wave with pickerel weed" < click on image to enlarge > 11" x 8 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 275. now and at our booth 265 - july 12 - 14, at toronto - [georgian bay watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/georgian-bay-watercolours/) - Water, like light, cannot be painted directly; treating light as pure source the paintings are an expression/realization of its effects. The transparency of water, always different, lets us explore/express it through the very reflections that try to confine it. ‘The blues of the sky; sandy browns to limestone whites of the bottoms, interwoven with grasses - [parisian alleyways](https://zarowsky.net/14353-2/) - posting first of a number of posts collectively featuring smaller select works on paper; revealing one work per post of the stand alone works, each work is being offered for sale. wandering thru paris alleyways seem to open up as you walk by inviting you to lose yourself in entirely different sections of the city - [available works on paper](https://zarowsky.net/available-works-on-paper/) - continuing working towards to the toronto outdoor art fair. plan, so far, is to include / display some works on paper at our booth - booth 265 - coming to open waterphillip edward islands, killarney 16"x19" watercolour on arches paper. available now 750. - [new summer water dazzle series](https://zarowsky.net/14345-2/) - being a dragonfly over water visualising patterns lily on the shadow side < click on image to enlarge > 18" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 550. - [gallery on the lake closed](https://zarowsky.net/gallery-on-the-lake-closed/) - having picked up my work from Esther at the now closed 'Gallery on the Lake' yesterday all returned pieces are now available at the studio. including..... (the beginning of) RAIN 22 / 48" x 32" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 3200. < click on image to enlarge > - [new work at Petroff Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/14298-2/) - New from Micheal Zarowsky: an exceptional collections of watercolour and acrylic pieces. Micheal’s work moves slightly towards the effect of abstraction and exudes a textural quality, but still embodies the veracity of realism, his landscapes capture the dazzle of light. < click on image to enlarge > - [may 24 - 26 petite art show goes live](https://zarowsky.net/may-24-26-petite-art-show-goes-live/) - petiteartshow.com going live later this week: may 24th thru 26th, 2024 3 boats fowey uk 11" x 14" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel /each 370.00 - [petiteartshow.com](https://zarowsky.net/petiteartshow-com/) - we chose to work out the magic of boats floating on water (a lateral move from our series of ongoing water patterns) for the spring to summer theme at online site of petiteartshow.com come may 24 - 26 2024 petiteartshow.com / 4 11" x 14" works each 370.00 dockside camden - [new work at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/14267-2/) - delivered a number of small magic of boats floating paintings to Yas for Fay at Arta Gallery in The Distillery including 'dories, with gulls, indian harbour, nova scotia' 8" x 15" 350. < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [2nd magic of boats for petite art show](https://zarowsky.net/2nd-magic-of-boats-for-petite-art-show/) - 2nd of the magic of boats floating on water (a lateral move from our series of ongoing water patterns) for the spring to summer theme at online site of petiteartshow.com come may 24 – 26 2024 petiteartshow.com / 4 11″ x 14″ works each 340.00 morning dory with sparkles / blue rocks nova scotia - [morning magic of water](https://zarowsky.net/morning-magic-of-water/) - to continue about this upcoming project.....working towards 2 separate online square foot shows, ok, one is a petite art show, difference being the latter offers more than just a 12x12 size, to include 11x14 as well as even smaller numbers. given they are in may and july, when summer's afoot, and looking at the magic - [summer on the water](https://zarowsky.net/summer-on-the-water/) - part of an upcoming project.....working towards 2 separate online square foot shows, ok, one is a petite art show, difference being the latter offers more than just a 12x12 size, to include 11x14 as well as even smaller numbers. given they are in may and july, when summer's afoot, and looking at the magic of - [Happy Easter](https://zarowsky.net/happy-easter-2/) - Happy Easter. - [last winter snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/last-winter-snowfall/) - was out last monday call it 'breaking trails' thru 5 inches of fresh snow sunlight reaching in to the forest (avoiding the grrrrroups of fat tire bike riders huffing and puffing by every few minutes trying not to wipe out by keeping with their nose to the trails and seeing what?) thru walkers woods - [tamarack pond](https://zarowsky.net/tamarack-pond/) - this idea has been singsonging on the back burner of what passes for a amind here for ever since Wendy and i watched the sun go down on this pond along livingston road, tamarack pond 38" x 22" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 2600. - [blue pine](https://zarowsky.net/blue-pine/) - source of the initial summer water dazzle series river with blue mathiasville, muskoka, 24" x 16" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 980. - [ongoing 'summer water dazzle' series](https://zarowsky.net/ongoing-summer-water-dazzle-series/) - water being transparent, always different, lets us explore /express its infinite appearance through the very reflections that try to confine it. water is a perfect source of abstraction: transparent; we paint the reflected sky above, the bottom revealed by passing clouds, the edges contained by forests all around all sides. We end up painting everything - [midwinter pond](https://zarowsky.net/midwinter-pond/) - walked the shorelines hardy lake always coming back to several small ponds contained within several times this past february. snowcovered rock mid sunlit pond hardy lake 11" x 14" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 375. click on image to enlarge Janice Turner King This - [colour & form society's members exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/colour-form-societys-members-exhibition/) - my entry "wetland with sun reflecting" at the colour n form society's members exhibition running march 4th thru 24th, at neilson pk centre in etobicoke / 48" x 24" / < click on image to enlarge > watercolour - acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2800. - [Day full of deep reflections](https://zarowsky.net/day-full-of-deep-reflections-2/) - different yet full of similarities: look forward to the march winter melts and october fall rains which both create instant ponds only lasting until absorbed in to / with the ground water. day full of deep reflections 48" x 24" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted - [muskoka river sunrise.](https://zarowsky.net/muskoka-river-sunrise/) - as much fantasy as reality.... sunrise muskoka river 16" x 22" watercolour on arches paper / available 900. ( click on image to enlarge ) - [2nd jessie's stream](https://zarowsky.net/2nd-jessies-stream/) - painted what they called jessie's stream, before it ends up emptying into the saugeen river; the one on the previous post and this one are the two available from more than a dozen worked up of the stream on its journey to the saugeen during our visits to and with the malcolms' retreat. midsummer the - [jessie's stream](https://zarowsky.net/jessies-stream/) - painted what they called jessie's stream, emptying into the saugeen river; must have worked up more than a dozen of the stream on its journey to the saugeen during our visits to and with the malcolms' retreat. long title: "something & nothing: raspberry ruby tangles glorying the moss covered shouldered edges of a creek emptying - [summer water dazzle](https://zarowsky.net/summer-water-dazzle-2/) - a continuing series summer water dazzle with lilies 6 51" x 27" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 3200. - [summer water dazzle 6](https://zarowsky.net/summer-water-dazzle-6/) - looking to get back to it (after Mondays' wanderings thru Sundays' snow squalls up muskoka way) and workout the 'flow' / rather not have to wash off the bottom half n start again / 51" x 27" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [compliments on summer water dazzle](https://zarowsky.net/summer-water-dazzle/) - Red and I can sit by the waters edge forever and not feel the need to move. muskoka river / upside road up from mathiasville summer water dazzle with lilies 5 51" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gesseod panel available 3300. summer water dazzle with lilies 5 available - [mild winter](https://zarowsky.net/mild-winter/) - not much of a winter this year. like that some years. got to be disappointing to everyone who depends on winter for their living. some years are like that. trail thru an overnight snowfall 48" x 36" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 3500. / click on image to enlarge - [sunlight reflecting](https://zarowsky.net/sunlight-reflecting-2/) - most of my water paintings, by not so much eliminating as just not including looking that far down to where the horizon is, to me, carry an ambiguity of possibilities of how they can be seen / read / as a wetland reflection and or as a colour pattern of lines approaching abstraction. not that - [sunlight reflecting (2)](https://zarowsky.net/sunlight-reflecting-2-2/) - this pond awakens with the october rains; some years i was able to walk across it, in the best years the opposite shoreline reflections descend downward across it. trout pond wetland with sunlight reflecting 48" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 2800. - [a living drawing](https://zarowsky.net/a-living-drawing/) - with the sun high above and the light and shadows swaying across the forest floor in time with the the treetop breezes the forest is alive even standing there let alone walking thru a living drawing. Windy day riot of sunlight and shadow moving quickly across unstructured silence of the forest floor thru walkers woods - [georgian bay snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/georgian-bay-snowfall/) - overnight snowfall / georgian bay / hwy 69 24" x 32" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 2400 / click to enlarge / shows better seen actual size - [light and shadow](https://zarowsky.net/light-and-shadow/) - some of the thinking, some of what i find beyond interesting, has to do with flow of lines, of rhythms of light and shadow as they stream thru our forests. in this particular work the shadowlines guide you in on the right and line by line walk you thru the painting sunlight and shadows 2 - [late fall pond](https://zarowsky.net/late-fall-pond/) - autumn in a bag with too many cats like days of unpainted colours wild calla lilies watercolour on arches paper 16" x 22" available 980. / click on image to enlarge Ed Reliuga Absolutely brilliant! Micheal Zarowsky well thank you Ed, phillip guston was in my head that day as well as - [pine reflections](https://zarowsky.net/pine-reflections/) - waddingtons auction house is offering up for bids 4 of my early watercolours early in feb at said auction house. happily and sadly life goes on and these paintings are looking forward to their new life. -- "georgian pine' / 16"x14" / to which i would add 'reflections' / walking on a bed of - [always look on the fundy side of life](https://zarowsky.net/always-look-on-the-fundy-side-of-life/) - always a surprise to find out more of my early watercolours that i haven't seen in years are going for bids at waddingtons auction house early in february happily and sadly life goes on and these paintings are looking forward to their new life / can only hope the currant owners are alive - [early works then and now](https://zarowsky.net/early-works-then-and-now/) - checked waddingtons tonight and found 4 of our early watercolours we really liked are coming up for bids early feb at said auction house. happily and sadly life goes on and these paintings are looking forward to their new life. the 2nd one. -- "reflection with red leaves" / 13"x19" approx / used to - [younger works from younger times](https://zarowsky.net/younger-works-from-younger-times/) - december just past posted several of my works were up for bids at waddingtons auction house. checked tonight and found 4 more watercolours we really liked are coming up for bids early feb at said auction house. happily and sadly life goes on and these paintings are looking forward to their new life. not - [seeeeeeeing thru adjustments](https://zarowsky.net/seeeeeeeing-thru-adjustments/) - waiting as eyes continue to adjust after cataract surgery having a time of it adjusting to seeing thru lens for anything close up, mind you, wearing what they call cheaters / reading glasses from shoppers which magnify clarity. (having always made an effort to break everything down to simples, never occurred to me before one - [mad river small](https://zarowsky.net/mad-river-small/) - a new small while working thru waiting for eyes to adjust after cataract surgery still having a time of it adjusting to seeing thru lens for anything close up sharing the wearing of several different magnification size cheaters for differences in inches. 1. mad river in winter 6.5" x10" watercolour / some acrylic painted directly - [subdued light](https://zarowsky.net/subdued-light/) - Wendy is of the mind that most of my work has to be or is better seen / really comes alive in subdued light because it has its own light within / is all about the light 'blue streamers reaching across the length of the day' (forest off southwood rd) 20" x 40" watercolour - [snowfall thru york regional forest](https://zarowsky.net/snowfall-thru-york-regional-forest/) - for those days when we get get up late to sunshine after a surprise overnight snowfall there is a snowbelt mere minutes away to snowshoe thru: aurora sideroad and hwy 48 finds a handful of tracts of forest under management by the york regional forest which being on a snow squall path coming down from - [mince meat pie party](https://zarowsky.net/mince-meat-pie-party/) - visited longtime friends over a mince meat pies party this weekend and came face to face with one of our earlier wet snow grey day after an overnight snowfall winter pieces we hadn't seen in years / had to have been from the first ever artist project / looked about 48x20 w/c / acrylic - [new year starts with a dusting of snow](https://zarowsky.net/new-year-starts-with-a-dusting-of-snow/) - fun start to the year.... working out some ideas on smaller panels catching the light 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 350.00 - [HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE](https://zarowsky.net/happy-new-year-everyone/) - H A P P Y N E W YE A R E V E R Y O N E - [winter watercolours resold at waddingtons](https://zarowsky.net/winter-watercolours-resold-at-waddingtons/) - 2nd of two watercolours from our days in port sydney changed addresses this past october at waddingtons auctions. looking back it feels just as fresh as if it were yesterday; the southern leg of the road into port sydney was lined with majestic pines which became several paintings and then we painted our way south - [more work up for resale](https://zarowsky.net/more-work-up-for-resale/) - Gardner auctions in London, (which has recently resold several of our pieces) has one of our open winter stream watercolours coming up for bids early january 24' wild is where you find it; this work is from one of several streams that stay open most years; for many more winters than i can remember, i - [trails thru port sydney resurface](https://zarowsky.net/trails-thru-port-sydney-resurface/) - every so often i remember to do a quick check of the auction houses to see if any more of my works have come up for resale. discovered that two watercolours from our days in port sydney changed addresses this past october - [Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays](https://zarowsky.net/merry-christmas-happy-holidays/) - always looking for moments when everything is alright with the world. Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates; Happy Holidays to everyone else. Bless everyone. < click on image to enlarge > - [spring melt](https://zarowsky.net/spring-melt-2/) - there always seem to be small leftovers when i make panels. a snowless december seems like a good time as any to gesso them and see what ideas i can work up. for all the rainy day people out there, a real neat part of winter into spring when you - [exploratory miniatures](https://zarowsky.net/exploratory-miniatures/) - odds and ends left over from making panels used as tiny exploratory panels late fall. raven lake where it meets sherborne lake access rd. 8.5" x 10" < click on image to enlarge > watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 200. - [a dusting of snow, paris](https://zarowsky.net/a-dusting-of-snow-paris/) - A dusting of snow, Paris, a watercolour / acrylic on panel, has been lost here for some time, found a week ago while sorting thru blank panels stacked in with them and yesterday built and painted edges finally finishing it. with the temps hovering around zero, we woke up to a dusting of snow a - [elegance of winter](https://zarowsky.net/elegance-of-winter/) - latest winterlight painting with a freshness permeating the silence ..... blue sky day after an overnight snowfall < click on image to enlarge > 28" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 1400. - [My Winter Watercolour at Aird Landscape Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/my-winter-watercolour-at-aird-landscape-exhibition/) - my painting, 'sunlight streaming down the shadow side of winter' is part of the Aird Gallery's Landscape Exhibition, an online event. sunlight streaming down the shadow side of winter < click on image to enlarge> 18" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 980.00 A note from Gallery - [happy first snowfall everyone](https://zarowsky.net/happy-first-snowfall-everyone/) - h a p p y f i r s t s n o w f a ll e v e r y o n e. lucky friends up gravenhurst way posted pics of their first snowfall of the year, some ten inches of white stuff seamlessly blanketing the landscape. - [cyber monday](https://zarowsky.net/cyber-monday/) - not sure how to work in cyber monday here, other than to say if you find a work you like either posted here on FB, which is at our studio, or on the website, www.zarowsky.net, we can work out pricing which would make both you and us most happy. latest winterlight study - [annex laneway](https://zarowsky.net/annex-laneway/) - there is an aspect of abstraction in the compositions i work out, while at the same time an aspect of something representational found in nature; or in the city. both thought processes interweave thru the breaking down and reassembling everything in the idea / not quite art talk, but then i don't have to explain - [lido bikes](https://zarowsky.net/lido-bikes-3/) - my latest lido bikes painting, started on thursday, spray fixative and varnish finished this morning, got snapped up by a very talented fellow watercolour society member / buyer during a fun visit to our studio this afternoon. Lido bikes (190) (click on image to enlarge) 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly - [Sugar Bush](https://zarowsky.net/sugar-bush/) - when i was in bermuda i rented a scooter and on an island that is more or less 21 miles long, i managed to do 1850 miles in a little over a week and i didn't get to see the whole island. i did manage to get to know some areas really well and came - [new winterlight works at Petroff Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-winterlight-works-at-petroff-gallery/) - Met with Ivan at the Petroff Gallery today and left him with a dozen new winter pieces, and 4 works on paper, and although these are also of december, they are of paris in december. posting the paris pieces now at Petroff, and the winters in a followup .. seeing as i can only - [winterlight pieces at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/winterlight-pieces-at-arta-gallery/) - Dropped off a number of my latest winterlight paintings with Yas at the Arta Gallery for their annual Holiday Show running over the ongoing Seasonal Festivities in the Distillery. Most trails in my paintings are ones I made while snowshoeing. Thru the paintings I take you along with me as I open myself up to - [email catalog of exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/trail-thru-an-overnight-snowfall/) - Got an email from Stella Dai, a wonderful fellow watercolour society artist member about an email exhibition i had sent out. Hi Micheal, Scrolling through your email, I feel like embarking on an art journey. Your paintings are impressive and inspiring. I plan to go to One of A Kind next week, maybe a particular - [a watercolour by any other name](https://zarowsky.net/using-terms/) - Ron Murdoch Why do you call it a Watercolour when it’s a Acrylic thinned with water on a primed panel ? Transparent Watercolour is in a class by itself and is not an emulsion like Acrylic Micheal Zarowsky Ron Murdoch thanks Ron, never called it a transparent watercolour. it is all watercolour. i add gel - [different delicacies](https://zarowsky.net/different-delicacies/) - working drama into different patches of daylight / Another of the " Farther now to distances " series from southwood rd forests / almost done / 24" x 26" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available / 1680. - [sunspots](https://zarowsky.net/sunspots/) - light touches of the sun spotlighting individual moments for places as it is moving across the day sunspot (click on image to enlarge) 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 1680. - [new approaches to winter light](https://zarowsky.net/13844-2/) - not quite binge posting....more like catching up on lots of goings on....while approaching possibility of being slightly overwhelmed...... ....different ways of seeing inside the forest...not sure if idea is overall simplified or if I am painting larger swaths of treeline / it can be both i have simplified and just looking differently at and - [same day, different gallery](https://zarowsky.net/same-day-different-gallery/) - after finishing up taking the work in and hanging our half of the show, at Pazan Gallery i scooted over to Summer and Grace in Oakville, and left Claudia with 6 of my new winter pieces for the Joy II smalls Exhibition / November now, okay November 24th thru Dec 24th, 2023, but am sure - [Colour and Form Society's 71st Annual Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/colour-and-form-societys-71st-annual-juried-exhibition/) - Marcello and Gloria of Pazan Gallery and I took in and hung 1/2 of the Colour and Form Society"s 71st Annual Juried Exhibition / the other half is being shown at another nearby gallery my entry, autumn in freefall 34" x 22" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [sunrise](https://zarowsky.net/sunrise-3/) - continuing the sunrise idea from the forests along southwood road, those moments when the sun is really low in the sky, watching the fingers of daylight creep deep in among the trees then slowly retreat out as the sun rises changing the angle of light coming thru. 24" x 30" watercolour / acrylic - [late start](https://zarowsky.net/late-start/) - not sure how everyone else finds october but it just zoomed on by me....sure, i worked everyday, but there still are more things i did not get to do this month than i was able to, and this includes several escapes spent freely wandering numerous trails thru algonquin pk, thru the shallows of margaret lake - [latest winter pieces in Joy 2 Exhibition at Summer & Grace](https://zarowsky.net/latest-winter-pieces-in-joy-2-exhibition-at-summer-grace/) - have 7 cutting edge new small winter pieces in the Joy 2 Exhibition, at Summer and Grace Gallery in Oakville; 350 Lakeshore Road East Oakville 905.842.0177 Owner: Cindycottrelle@me.com summergracegallery.com Show runs from November 24th thru December 24th, 2023 blue sky day after an new snowfall 16" x 16" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on - [Haliburton Gallery closing this weekend](https://zarowsky.net/gallery-closing-this-weekend/) - some sad news; the Ethel Curry Gallery with whom i have only been showing with for less than a year, after 28 years of being an art destination in Halliburton, is closing this Saturday for good. I haven't even met Wayne, the owner in person as yet, having dealt with him online and introduced myself - [all's well that's couriered well.](https://zarowsky.net/alls-well-thats-couriered-well/) - mostly post new work / events here, so hopefully it is kosher to post a new satisfied customers wonderful comments back after receiving the work they have chosen. sunrise, (along one of the forests making up a good portion of southwood road on a magical sunny -23C morning) 12" x 16" / - [farther now to distances](https://zarowsky.net/farther-now-to-distances/) - farther now to distances 'daylight streaming thru the forest' (click on image to enlarge) 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available / 550.00 - [precambrian rox](https://zarowsky.net/precambrian-rox/) - 2 worlds meeting / the visual sweep of rox descending into the waters of georgian bay with a string of lilies floating precambrian-shoreline-georgian-bay- 24" x 30" / click on image to enlarge watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available at studio 2300.00 - [my winter abstract in Aird Gallery Online Show](https://zarowsky.net/13769-2/) - had applied way back in the summer to the Aird Gallery Landscape Show, and assumed my piece did not get selected ... which is ok....and then this came thru today...... Friday September 29, 2023 Dear LANDSCAPES Artists! Congratulations to all, and many thanks for participating! I am writing to confirm that the LANDSCAPES - [non composition composition](https://zarowsky.net/13758-2/) - continuing to work out water patterns, sit and watch the water flow, in among the shoreline shallows of both devils lake and margaret lake, Day full of late summer lilies, devils lake / 33" x 33" / (click on any waterlily to enlarge) watercolour / acrylic painted directly - [sunrise](https://zarowsky.net/sunrise-2/) - sunrise, fire streaking thru lighting up the forest spotlighting moving daylight after draining the world of colour each night as it goes down below the treeline, sunrise bringing colour back into the world each morning (along southwood road / muskoka) sunrise 1 24" x 16" (in small winters page) - [precambrian rox / where 2 worlds meet](https://zarowsky.net/precambrian-rox-where-2-worlds-meet/) - interesting time of the year here now, a time of rain ponds and reflections, what with fall staring to colour tumble down, the toureestas gone back home except for weekends, leaving the north kinda empty, that state where it neither invites you in nor asks you to leave once you are there, feelings exposed and - ['overnight snowfall' in OSA Members Exhibition Sept 26 - 0ct 14th](https://zarowsky.net/overnight-snowfall-in-osa-members-exhibition-sept-26-0ct-14th/) - dropped off my painting "overnight snowfall, (beaumont dr)" (in the city here,) at the Ontario Society of Artists Members Exhibition from Sept 26th thru Oct 14th, 2023 at the Gallery in the Neilson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke. curiously interesting, this summer i have entered / accepted / shown at the neilson centre thru 5 - [online petite art show](https://zarowsky.net/online-petite-art-show/) - have 6 new 12 x 12 winter pieces in the upcoming Online Petite Art Show, which goes live from 10 a.m. thursday september 21st, to 10 p.m. on friday september 22nd. petiteartshow.com daylight streaming thru the forest click on image to enlarge my skillset works is limited how to only post - [OSA Members’ Exhibition titled ‘Homeward, Where the Heart Lives’: 2](https://zarowsky.net/osa-members-exhibition-titled-homeward-where-the-heart-lives-2/) - until i work out how to post multiple images on / in the same post, easiest way to get around this is to repost the original post with the other images that should have been in it. tuesday brought good news email from Ontario Society of Artists that my entry Overnight Snowfall, Beaumont Dr., is - [OSA Members’ Exhibition titled ‘Homeward, Where the Heart Lives’.](https://zarowsky.net/osa-members-exhibition-titled-homeward-where-the-heart-lives/) - tuesday brought good news email from Ontario Society of Artists that my entry Overnight Snowfall, Beaumont Dr., is a finalist in the OSA Members’ Exhibition titled ‘Homeward, Where the Heart Lives’. " Thank you very much for submitting your artwork to the upcoming - [colour ponds](https://zarowsky.net/colour-ponds/) - crayon colours overgrown leaves bigger than luscious burst bumping into fire spirals autumn in free fall autumn on the pond (5) 34" x 22" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available /2400. click on image to enlaaaarge Micheal Zarowsky thanks Brian, my idea of being ssurrounded by / immersed in - [summer and light on the water](https://zarowsky.net/summer-and-light-on-the-water/) - summer and light on the water has become an ongoing series of new works; exploring new ways to express thru paint the relationship between light and water that draws me in until i am, as always, well over my head; some of these are already being shown in galleries repping us, (Arta and Petroff and - [New work at Art Gala Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-art-gala-gallery/) - met with Edmund at noon (he is continuing to show our and others work and offer framing at Art Gala Gallery in Richomnd Hill, ) where he picked out 7 new pieces for his new gallery opening later this month. you can see and pick this up at Edmund's. summer water dazzle with lilies - [auction house sales](https://zarowsky.net/auction-house-sales/) - every so often i get a client asking for my take on current pricing on works they own from the past, which is okay because i get to be surprised by revisiting works that at best only live in my head if and when i can remember; other times i get notifications that one or - [light on the water](https://zarowsky.net/light-on-the-water/) - was up last week delivering new paintings to ethel curry gallery in haliburton after stopping to share a morning moment with a new friend at her century log home along the severn river, and haliburton led to a scoot around a wee bit of eagle lake quickly proving itself too too private for my - [understanding finished](https://zarowsky.net/understanding-finished/) - Posting ‘divine lake come autumn’, which had been posted some six months ago, as closer to being finished than ever, which speaks as much to how we work, something we never felt any need to write about, as we Assume that every artist goes thru this, in some sense work at the studio is never - [New works at Ethel Curry Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-works-at-ethel-curry-gallery/) - I left Poet and Tiffany and Wayne at the Ethel Curry Gallery in Halliburton with a dozen new works, umm, a little over a hectic week ago, but nomatter, those that haven't sold are there, including this one. 'birch and sun lilies' 36x30 watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [my entry a finalist in CSPWC Open Water 2023](https://zarowsky.net/my-entry-a-finalist-in-cspwc-open-water-2023/) - Sept 5 - 24 my entry 'summer with lilies' is a finalist at the CSPWC Open Water 2023 at the Neilson Pk Creative Centre, Etobicoke / curious timing. the SCA exhibition ends, with teardown the same day of the Watercolour Exhibition intake summer with lilies (click on image to enlarge) 22" x 30" - [juried into SCA"s 55th Open International Exhibition,](https://zarowsky.net/13623-2/) - Aug 8 - Sept 1 my entry 'Sunlight streaming down the shadow side of winter' is a finalist in the SCA"s 55th Open International Exhibition, at the Neilson Pk Creative Centre, Etobicoke 'Sunlight streaming down the shadow side of winter' (click on image to enlarge) 18" x 24" Watercolour / acrylic - [zarowsky on / at art majeur](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-on-at-art-majeur/) - been awhile since anything . updated 10 new works onto one of the few online art directories selling our work that we post to. https://www.artmajeur.com/michealzarowsky posting one of them. a collaboration with the beavers. they cut down the birch specifically to fall into the water lilies, i then painted it . birches with lilies - [windfall of panels](https://zarowsky.net/windfall-of-panels/) - the response to our recent water paintings have rejuvenated our spirits and today a fellow artist offered us a luxury windfall of panels stored in her home that she wanted cleared out, leaving me spiritually encouraged / engaged by her gift as it comes when we were waiting for a sale / a portion of - [sherborne lake waterlilies](https://zarowsky.net/sherborne-lake-waterlilies/) - my wind chaos stirred waterlilies from sherborne lake / one of 5 new works delivered to and available at Petroff Gallery today. waterlilies 27 (click on image to enlarge) 48" x 32" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available Stephen Green You have an eye for fluid motion, nice work  - [never finished except when they are](https://zarowsky.net/13599-2/) - brought up 5 new works for Erin and Ivan at the Petroff Gallery and retrieved a few they had not had any success with and as often as not, work brought back gets a serious deciding second look which usually means it / they get painted over - the panels are - reincarnated - as - [summer sunlight](https://zarowsky.net/summer-sunlight/) - sunlight on the water on Hardy lake west of gravenhurst summer water dazzle with lilies 4 (clickety on image to enlarge) 36" x 22" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2500. - [migration of reds](https://zarowsky.net/migration-of-reds/) - working water towards abstraction. again. autumn. pond. migration of red. 24" x 36" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2600. the wetlands page is a show in itself again with nearly a dozen new works exploring new ways of thinking of breaking down and - [carousel pond](https://zarowsky.net/carousel-pond/) - carousel pond morning / click on image to enlarge) 16' x 16" Watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gesseod panel ------------------------------------------------------------------ Joanna Turlej Contemporary Art I like your ponds in the summer and snow in the winter. Very intriguing thanks Joanna, water and frozen water..... Ed Reliuga Gorgeous This is even more amazing than my - [lido bikes](https://zarowsky.net/lido-bikes-2/) - Yesterday, Wendy for whatever reason checked under the bed and found enough things in the darkness there to make a list of, including an early Lido bikes that is more about wheels wheels and wheels that had wheeled itself missing some time ago. ok. not missing any more. lido bikes 82 (roundabout at - [Waterscapes Opening Tonight at Oakville Club](https://zarowsky.net/waterscapes-opening-tonight-at-oakville-club/) - i'm only at openings i go to. think that makes sense. Had fun meeting Cindy and Claudette from the gallery, as well as artists whom i know but hadn't seen for a while, and a wackload of strangers whom are not strangers anymore, at Summer and Grace's waterscape Opening tonight where my entry - [shallow summer stream](https://zarowsky.net/shallow-summer-stream/) - shallow summer stream running into / at the mouth of the saugeen river 22" x 30" watercolour on arches paper available 2300. click to enlarge adding follow up comments from a post on FB. Lori Ridgeway Lovely Micheal Zarowsky Lori Ridgeway thanks Lori, Diana Gurley Wow! Micheal - [new work for the TOAF](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-for-the-toaf/) - had the sun sparkled waters of margaret lake all to myself last week....a new work (which adds to many others from days spent at margaret lake) catching the sun 38" x 26" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 2600.00 / click to enlarge This work available till june 16th, after that - [beaver artistry](https://zarowsky.net/beaver-artistry/) - birch with lilies, click to enlarge beavers cut down this birch creating a visually wonderful interplay between it and the water lilies and the blue sky day 12 mile bay rd beaver pond / georgian bay 36" x 22" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available at studio / 2500. - [CFS Exhibition over today.](https://zarowsky.net/cfs-exhibition-over-today/) - Fellow CFS member Cheryl and I tear-ded down the colour and form society members exhibition this morning, connecting faces with their art works, and this on the heels of the OSA Colour Splash Exhibition ending on thursday with both Olympia (after Manet) and Confetti Breakfast now available back here at the studio .... i've - [sunfires](https://zarowsky.net/sunfires-2/) - an ongoing series trying to set the infinity rings on fire sunfires with infinity rings sherborne lake 29" x 44" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 2800. click to enlarge - [water rhythms](https://zarowsky.net/water-rhythms-3/) - liquid colours windstirred rhythms with lilies 24" x 14 1/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / click to enlarge available at studio / 800. available at Toronto Outdoor Art Fair July 7 - 9 booth 194 in Zone C and (online July 2 - 9) - [water patterns as abstractions](https://zarowsky.net/water-patterns-as-abstractions/) - we think of the infinity rings as of the more recognizable of our water paintings all of which are really just 'abstracted surface patterns' of winds and currants and skies and..... particular visual moments making up our day.... infinity rings 4 22" x 30" click to enlarge watercolour on arches paper - [sunlight reflecting](https://zarowsky.net/sunlight-reflecting/) - what we were able to do, to effect, working watercolours on paper was largely lost to me when i added a lateral move to working watercolours on gessoed panels while still also working on paper those ideas that need be on paper. I say 'we' because Wendy works with me up to the point where - [shimmers dazzles and sparkles](https://zarowsky.net/13490-2/) - shimmers dazzles and sparkles; autumn pond; 48" x 36" click to enlarge watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available at studio / 3500. available at Toronto Outdoor Art Fair July 7 - 9 booth 194 in Zone C and (online July 2 - 9) - [autumn in freefall](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-in-freefall/) - july 2nd - 9th, 2023 toronto outdoor art fair is open online ten newest latest waterworks posted to our online page at the toronto outdoor art fair link to our online page at the TOAF site https://toaf.ca/artists/?_sf_s=micheal%20zarowsky july 7th - 9th, 2023 visit us at our booth booth 194 in zone - [hOT DaYS AT THE toaf](https://zarowsky.net/hot-days-at-the-toaf/) - first time this year committed in a willingly trapped sense of the word, to 2 full days just sitting outside in the blue sky day sun, with one more to go tomorrow. we enjoyed meeting an endless stream of people coming thru the booth liking the work enough that we ran out of our contact - [TOAF continues online](https://zarowsky.net/toaf-continues-online/) - Toronto Outdoor Art Fair is now yesterday, but it does continue online where work available for purchase is posted. link to our page at the TOAF site https://toaf.ca/artists/?_sf_s=micheal%20zarowsky MichealZarowsky_light streaming thru the forest_30x60_2023 watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 3900. click to enlarge - [koi](https://zarowsky.net/koi/) - worked further. they are finished. then they are not. the koi were an idea that flowed out of trip to venice giving a second, or third look as we work our way thru paintings in backroom shelves and while it is easy to talk / take the idea elsewhere, most of the time it - [deep reflections; summer reflections](https://zarowsky.net/deep-reflections-2/) - new reflection loved the idea of vertical paintings ever since i saw some late bonnard's.... autumn pond; reflections descending forever (click to enlarge) 48" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 2800 - [open stream](https://zarowsky.net/open-stream/) - 'life lines through the forest' (click on image to enlarge) early november snowfall with the streams still open, 12 mile bay road, georgian bay / with the ground not frozen, as the sun came out it qqqqquickly melted the snow around me into soggyness.... 26" x 41" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [latest infinity rings from margaret lake](https://zarowsky.net/latest-infinity-rings-from-margaret-lake/) - reflections of playful summer breezes fast moving the clouds across the lake margaret lake 30" x 30" watercolour painted directly on gessoed birch panel / available 2800. / included as part of for the toronto outdoor art fair unless it finds a buyer before. - [new magnolias](https://zarowsky.net/13398-2/) - rain and sun and warmth and squirrels chasing each other up and down the trees brought on an explosion of spring blooms this week magnolia 37 18" x 31.5" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 1650.00 - [red tabletop volcano exploding](https://zarowsky.net/red-tabletop-volcano-exploding/) - getting +ve informed responses to the parisian interiors that were recently juried into separate exhibitions being held by separate art societies. the response i liked best was that i have a knack / a flair for these parisian interiors / of her interior painting she says that she can't imagine it not being on the - [more waterlilies and wild rice](https://zarowsky.net/more-waterlilies-and-wild-rice/) - to go on about this series of abstracted shorelines, Petroff Gallery on Eglinton Ave., West, has one of the 'waterliies and wild rice'(9) works available for sale. water lilies and wild rice (9) 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [titles and starting points](https://zarowsky.net/titles-and-starting-points/) - Micheal Zarowsky 151t81ohhfc917g5e3 · Shared with Public 'daylight' 'sunlight' consistently word their way into our winter titles not so much to define what there is to see in the works, but rather to explain where we begin to shape our ideas for paintings from. we strive to create visual pathways, most times quite literally, that - [overnight snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/overnight-snowfall-2/) - as always for us it is the right person for the right painting. today, a cool gal out west, named Lorna, has found and liked our overnight snowfall enough to want to take it home with her; in this case, have it delivered. so we woke up to an overnight snowfall here, and with Lorna - [ssssstream running out of devils lake](https://zarowsky.net/ssssstream-running-out-of-devils-lake/) - ....streaming into the new year...working out abstract passages of winter representing the larger picture; Devils' lake streams out / leaks all winter long; it was there -20 gurgling along the frost covered grasses lining the shorelines. found (unsought) moments reflecting daylight and free floating abandon 24" x 35" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed - [a winter of beginnings](https://zarowsky.net/a-winter-of-beginnings/) - working a winter of beginnings. Each new snow fall delicately once again outlining what it lands on / covers. It would snow, pull the world together into a seamless singularity, then melt, then snow again, blanketing everything in white, then melt, then snow again, like so much icing on the cake. sunlight tobogganing down the - [red bike](https://zarowsky.net/red-bike/) - Red bike; (although it really also is lido bikes # 181) leaves looking at its own shadows for a.... 12" x 12" watercolour acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel not quite complete, available when done / 325.00 - [more works on paper](https://zarowsky.net/more-works-on-paper/) - back in december had someone at the OOAK get excited by my marks which became the winter painting they were looking at. i say this cause i still not only feel their excitement at that moment, but have gone over in how i view what i always thought of as breakdown scribbles in my works, - [Winter wall on Broadway](https://zarowsky.net/winter-wall-on-broadway/) - delivered new works to Joan at Dragonfly on Broadway who made a winter wall of my works....including 'morning full of light. day full of morning' my own trail off 12 mile bay rd. georgian. bay ok walked alongside bobcat tracks hoping to not catch up with the critter. 30" x 48" watercolour / acrylic painted - [rolling hills](https://zarowsky.net/rolling-hills/) - hillside / escarpment north of kolapore / sideroad 2 / apple orchard country 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / new / available - [water lilies pickerel weed and wild rice](https://zarowsky.net/water-lilies-pickerel-weed-and-wild-rice/) - over the last couple of years, when the ponds open to an explosion of growth along the shorelines, Wendy and I have talked over, worked out several new ways expressing ' waterlilies and wild rice ' to be able to now think of it as a small ongoing series. happily this latest one not so - [one of a kind exhibition / Booth L-37](https://zarowsky.net/12890-2/) - running out of days / been fun posting as near to day after day as i have ever done / cool comments coming back / monday post before set up tomorrow or the day following / path to the lake 3 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available at - [parispheric works on paper](https://zarowsky.net/parispheric-works-on-paper/) - part of the magic we came away with from paris is, well, ok, let me say paris rattled us, loosened up seeing what was not there and that has made its way into some of the work from that trip. 'confetti breakfast' was given an award at this years color and form society members exhibition, - [Raynes comments on 'confetti breakfast' at CFS Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/raynes-comments-on-confetti-breakfast-at-cfs-exhibition/) - 'Rayne Tunley's comments on how and why she gave 'confetti breakfast' Honourable Mention at CFS Exhibition 16" x 22" watercolour on arches paper / available 900.00 - ['confetti breakfast' given Honourable mention at CFS Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/confetti-breakfast-given-honourable-mention-at-cfs-exhibition/) - artists to the left of me, artists to the right, i was surrounded, (had fun talking with artists many of whom i had not seen in a while) at the Colour & Form Society's Opening of their 2023 Members Exhibition where Juryist Rayne Tunley saw fit to give my watercolour 'confetti breakfast paris' an honourable - [Booth 194 in Zone C at Toronto Outdoor Art Fair](https://zarowsky.net/booth-194-in-zone-c-at-toronto-outdoor-art-fair/) - got our assigned booth today. i like our location on the walkway from queen n bay Booth 194 in Zone C. new to me, 2 ways to 'see' the exhibition this year July 2 - 9 TOAF goes online July 7 – 9 live in the square Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. Booth 194 in Zone - [sailing in place](https://zarowsky.net/sailing-in-place/) - quiet places that don’t reveal themselves easily, nor ask anyone to specifically to come there, but once there don’t ask you to leave either pickerel weed / rooted / sailing in place ---------------------------------------------- slow afternoon drift of light thru the pickerel weed / muskoka river / mathiasville / 18" x 24" / watercolour / acrylic - [more on the " Olympia (after Manet)" watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/more-on-the-olympia-after-manet-watercolour/) - my submission, Olympia, (after Manet), (watercolour on arches paper) as mentioned in an earlier post, is part of the OSA's 149th Annual Open Juried Exhibition being held at the Aird Gallery located at 906 Queen St., West, B05, Toronto from April 6th thru May 4th, 2023. adding the initial sketch for 'olympia, (after Manet)' / - ['confetti breakfast, paris' in CFS show](https://zarowsky.net/confetti-breakfast-paris-in-cfs-show/) - In a year with a lot to be grateful for already, adding that my watercolour ‘confetti breakfast, paris’ was juried into 2023 Colour and Form Society Members’ Exhibition April 17th – May 7th, 2023 Neilson Park Creative Centre, 56 Neilson Drive, Etobicoke, ON mon – thurs 9 to 9:30 fri – Sun 9 – 4:30 - [infinity rings juried into waterscapes show](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-juried-into-waterscapes-show/) - more terrific news to share. got email from Summer and Grace Gallery in Oakville. my entry got juried in and i owe a sincere thank you to Rayne and Peter for liking it enough to thumbsup it in. kinda cool the entry remains under wraps until the opening is, well, open. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Hello Micheal, Congratulations! - [new wendy snorkelling watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/new-wendy-snorkelling-watercolours/) - worked up a number of wendy snorkeling for a gal who expressed interest in seeing some; and added a mix of others snorkelling n such. Wendy snorkelling 2 30" x 11" watercolour on arches paper 1200. / there are several others posted on the TROPICS page - [moon river sunrise juried into SCA Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/moon-river-sunrise-juried-into-sca-exhibition/) - Thrilled to post that moon river shoreline was juried into The Society of Canadian Artists 2023 Open International Juried Online Exhibition. Hello micheal zarowsky, Thank you for entering the SCA 2023 Open International Juried Online Exhibition. Congratulations , we are pleased to let you know that your work: Your entry 9924.496831.1893466 Moon River Sunrise, price: - [accepted into this years TOAF](https://zarowsky.net/accepted-into-this-years-toaf/) - one of those rare days i find myself posting my ass off.... so.......... ..............surprised like wow to find out (in a year of over 1020+ applications, and not having gotten in over the last 3 years) my work was accepted into this years' TOAF. July 7 - 9 at Nathan Phillip Square and online July - [Olympia (after Manet) accepted into OSA's 149th Annual Open Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/olympia-after-manet-accepted-into-osas-149th-annual-open-juried-exhibition/) - dropped of my submission, Olympia, (after Manet), (20" x 14" / watercolour on arches paper) to the OSA's 149th Annual Open Juried Exhibition being held at the Aird Gallery located at 906 Queen St., West, B05, Toronto from April 6th thru May 4th, 2023. - [post kingsway-lambton show](https://zarowsky.net/post-kingsway-lambton-show/) - one of a few pics from saturdays' kingsway lambton art show; many pieces still available / however / rather than just post the work we had at the show, opening up everything on the website that is at the studio; message us about any pieces you find to hold your interest; - [Moon River Shoreline juried into SCA 2023 Exhibiton](https://zarowsky.net/moon-river-shoreline-juried-into-sca-2023-exhibiton/) - some emails are pure fun to just repost as they came in..... Hello micheal zarowsky, Thank you for entering the SCA 2023 Open International Juried Online Exhibition. Congratulations, we are pleased to let you know that your work: Your entry 9924.496831.1893466 Moon River Sunrise, price: 2500.00 is accepted to be part of this annual international - [more 'new snowfall for a new pine' series](https://zarowsky.net/more-new-snowfall-for-a-new-pine-series/) - started this series over a year ago after coming across new growth pines growing in front of a rock cut as if some sort of restorative action was going on, the pines taking the rock cut back into the country from roadside exposure. these 3 studies, 2 of which are posted here, needed something new - [painting leaks](https://zarowsky.net/painting-leaks/) - one of many ideas begun years ago, finally worked to a place i can stop. my experience shows in a way no painting is safe, as in finished, as long as it is here in the studio. in a way it can seem like traveling thru time. coming back to a painting even a year - [Kingsway-Lambton Art Show March 25th, 2023](https://zarowsky.net/kingsway-lambton-art-show-march-25th-2023/) - new work; a small series of october yellows on the oxtongue river above ragged falls; new winter light streaming thru the forest along southwood road; ongoing exploration of water patterns flowing in and out among waterlilies and wild rice; new studies from georgian bay; and surprises of course.... Kingsway-Lambton Art Show is live again after - [OSA "Colour Splash" Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/osa-colour-splash-exhibition/) - it's early yet, but got an email letting me know our entry into the Ontario Society of Artists 149th Open Juried Exhibition, "Colour Splash" was accepted, one of 34 works chosen from over 200 submissions. 'Colour Splash' at Aird Gallery, 906 Queen St. West, Toronto Thursday April 6th, Thursday May 4th, 2023. Opening Reception Saturday - [october yellows](https://zarowsky.net/october-yellows/) - finishing up fall ideas started last october november just in time for the kingsway ~ lambton show later in march. october yellows beaver pond georgian bay rd / georgian bay 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted diectly on gessoed panel / available - [winter watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/winter-watercolours/) - working winter on paper offers a directness almost to the point of simplicity itself. catching the sun streambank / stream running thru Stayner watercolour on arches paper 14 3/4" x 22" / available 800 (matted only / unframed ) - [watercolour from our own collection](https://zarowsky.net/watercolour-from-our-own-collection/) - -25 as the sun woke up made for a cold daybrrrrreak at the moon river off the 400 to be watching the crisp frozen crusty snow tips do their diamond sparkle as daylight swept over them. the sun lit up a riverfull of snowcovered plants shipping out on some bright journey. moon river sunrise 16" - [feb square foot show](https://zarowsky.net/feb-square-foot-show/) - 5 new works available at squarefootshow.com feb 23 - 25, 2023 - subscribe to the squrefootshow,com for a 48 hour preview window to check out the show as well as a chance to win a work by Sara Mullen. Micheal Zarowsky, Daybreak Sherborne Lake, / 12" x 12" 300.00 / Acrylic on Panel / available - [outside algonquin](https://zarowsky.net/outside-algonquin/) - fast flowing, the oxtongue river above the falls curves away out of sight waiting for you to walk to where the river disappears around the bend, where you glimpse another sweeping curve before it disappears further ahead again... it is the views of the river going around the bend that we thought worthy of a - [sumachs as a riverside screen](https://zarowsky.net/sumachs-as-a-riverside-screen/) - who would think a short stretch of the muskoka river between 2 power dams would continue to open up visually with new possibilities for painting ideas year after year? Wendy and I have spent countless hours on countless visits across all seasons since the 90's going up n down this riverside road and coming away - [completed autumn works now available](https://zarowsky.net/completed-autumn-works-now-available/) - several ideas that were begun last fall, and interrupted for one reason or another; on occasion after i have begun a piece, intuition tells me there is stuff that needs to filter thru the head about the ongoing work. i can move over to another work that has been put on the shelf so to - [a new work in the trout pond series](https://zarowsky.net/a-new-work-in-the-trout-pond-series/) - worked this further to get it closer to what i am looking for. wave stirred, autumn pond, windstirred, trout pond 31.5" x 27.5" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2500.00 received a positive response to my slow moving wave painting; so, editing this post to include FB Comments Berni Aziz it - [winter get away](https://zarowsky.net/winter-get-away/) - was fortunate enough to get away yesterday and wander along southwood road as far as the barrens; blue skies, snow on the trees protected from the winds deeper in the forest / it was memorable; blue skies while leaving the city only to run into a snow squall stretching from hwy 404 aurora / along - [SquareFootShow.com feb 23 -25](https://zarowsky.net/squarefootshow-com-feb-23-25/) - never too early to promote that i have 5 new works in the the upcoming online SquareFootShow.com this Feb 23 - 25, 2023. the other day, Julia Veenstra, whose super successful show it is, had this to say on the squarefootshow,com instagram page "I have stood in front of Michael's work, and have tried to - [new winter paintings](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-paintings/) - have posted half dozen new winter works in the 'winterlight' category page including light-streaming-thru-the-forest- 30" -x- 60" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 3900.00 - [sunlight thru the forest](https://zarowsky.net/sunlight-thru-the-forest/) - pretty sure we are in an el nina cycle, little snow here so far this winter, mild temps which mostly mean very little sunshine , grey days great for dark moody 6 inches looks deep enough to drown in pond reflections where the water remains open. so no panic or anything, just waiting for the - [snowcovered trail](https://zarowsky.net/snowcovered-trail/) - overnight snowfall up off along gibson lake rd / georgian bay / stepping into an undisturbed untouched unwalked sunlit morning following an overnight snowfall, i feel what i see before me is no different than what others before me and before them saw when they walked thru. 'undisturbed trail thru sunlight' 30" x 60" watercolour - [pulling a Bonnard](https://zarowsky.net/13032-2/) - Bonnard was of the mind a painting was never finished. when he visited friends, they would hide any work of his they owned, as sooner of later during the visit he would disappear and inevitably be found continuing to work on their / formerly his painting. i can see / understand his thinking and have - [new winter work](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-work/) - no slow beginning to the new year once again january is zoomin' on by faster than ....um... as if it can't fast enough, far enough away from december......(never really stopped working over the holidays, yet in so far as january is a new start, surprised how long it's still taking to refocus) sunlight-thru-the-forest-18" x 18" - [infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-6/) - Over the last 30 years Wendy and I have worked specific ideas, in this case, water patterns resembling galaxies' spirals, infinity rings, pushed each as far as it was willing to let me at any given time, then let it go, to the back burner of my mind, repeatedly returning to them when I had - [pig painting resurfaces](https://zarowsky.net/pig-painting-resurfaces/) - got a heads up from friend Carol Cassie Leah that one of my pig watercolours from another lifetime, from a farm up stouffeville sideroad was up for auction. long story and i wont go into it here as it serves no purpose beyond idle curiosity. Maxsold, whom i have not heard of prior to this, - [day for sparkles](https://zarowsky.net/day-for-sparkles/) - it is new years eve, and events today happily unfolded in such a way as to put together a post about a new series ????? worked out this week...interesting bordering on amazing this one already spoken for.... "day so clear you could see the air" go home bay rd. 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic - [HAPPY NEW YEAR](https://zarowsky.net/happy-new-year-5/) - KEEPING IT SIMPLE, WISHING EVERYONE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR - [sunlines](https://zarowsky.net/sunlines-2/) - a sssssseries called sunlines, the light from the sun traveling over the day drawing across our snow covered winter, are all about line and design, can be seen one the one hand, as simpler ideas trees and their emanating shadows, with the graceful curving hugging the land sunlines, but where i stand, more about open - [H A P P Y. H O L I D A Y S . E V E R Y O N E.](https://zarowsky.net/h-a-p-p-y-h-o-l-i-d-a-y-s-e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e/) - H A P P Y . H O L I D A Y S. E V E R Y O N E. - [black river birch reflections](https://zarowsky.net/black-river-birch-reflections/) - black river east of coopers falls the blacktop running on its way to Queen Lizzy Wildlands park, is mere inches from the river, with trees clinging to the vertical enbankment some don't make it, tipping over becoming floating reflections on the black water surface.... 2 left on panel birch n reflection black river 7 / - [small winters as lasting holiday gifts](https://zarowsky.net/small-winters-as-lasting-holiday-gifts/) - have a selection of amazing small winter pieces available as perfect gifts, lasting gifts for the holidays. sunlines 12 x 12 a new series of fingers of daylight streaming thru the forest as the sun draws shadows behind each and every tree message us at micheal@zarowsky.net each 12 x 12 is 325.00 / free delivery - [light thru the forest](https://zarowsky.net/light-thru-the-forest/) - snowshoeing in sunshine after an overnight snowfall comes close to perfect; sketching the elegance found in the lines of light running thru the forest marking its progress over the day comes close to perfect. all day long light streaming thru the forest southwood road, 30" x 60" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [CFS Award at the 70th Anniversary Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/cfs-award-at-the-70th-anniversary-exhibition/) - wowza. a eye opening sincere thank you to Flavio Belli for your thoughts taking us through your jurying the Colour & Form Society's 70th Anniversary Members Show at the Columbus Centre / Carrier Gallery, seeing merit, liking my strange little piece enough to give it an award. morning light catching a snow covered pine 24" - [early sundown](https://zarowsky.net/early-sundown/) - "My landscape paintings in acrylic on gessoed panels of my experiences of open winter streams are simple direct immediate everything but obvious. There is a grittyness in anything I find / call beautiful, and expressing my way of seeing / feeling winter light on water reflections is a heartfelt meditation on the natural elegance I - [post squarefootshow](https://zarowsky.net/post-squarefootshow/) - came home cumulatively exhausted after 11 days at the One of a Kind Show to good news about my submissions to the squarefootshow. a BIG Thank You to the wonderful people who liked my work enough to want to take it home with them and everyone at Squarefootshow.com Sunlight Streaming Down the Shadow Side of - [Joy Exhibition at Summer and Grace Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/joy-exhibition-at-summer-and-grace-gallery/) - rtsSpodeno7uwh1if58i60h3uJmthmifi26um1afh10nufol2f c7lsl4mf6 · Shared with Public working the One of A Kind Show, missed the opening of the Joy Exhibition at Summer and Grace Gallery last night / as i still havent figured out how to be in 2 places at the same time my paintings stood in for me and repped me quite well. overnight - [CFS 70th ANNIVERSARY MEMBERS' EXHIBITION](https://zarowsky.net/cfs-70th-anniversary-members-exhibition/) - CFS 70th ANNIVERSARYMEMBERS' EXHIBITION with 2 of my winter works from the light filtering thru forests along southwood road, juried into the 70th Anniversary Member's Exhibition, have several events going on on going at the same time. five new works in The Square Foot Show December first; Summer and Grace Joy Exhibition Dec 1st in - [drawing with colour](https://zarowsky.net/drawing-with-colour/) - Drawing with colour / trying to simplify what and how we see available at our booth L - 37, at the One of A Kind Show, Exhibition Place Toronto sunlight streaming down the hillside 18" x 24" / watercolour /acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [all set up 2](https://zarowsky.net/all-set-up-2/) - ll set up... (of course were probably going to make changes we don't even know were going to make probably after a sleep with those already up running past those for whom there was no booth space for as yet) look for us at Booth L - 37 at this years winter One of a - [all set up](https://zarowsky.net/all-set-up/) - ll set up... (of course were probably going to make changes we don't even know were going to make probably after a sleep with those already up running past those for whom there was no booth space for as yet) look for us at Booth L - 37 at this years winter One of a - [running of out days](https://zarowsky.net/running-of-out-days/) - running out of days / it has been fun posting some of the new works nearly day after day / notice lots of cool comments on other social platforms where we also posted some of the new works / monday post before set up tomorrow or the day following overnight snowfall30" x 30"watercolour / acrylic - [wet snow day](https://zarowsky.net/wet-snow-day/) - wet snow day (2) 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available at studio now / and at our Booth L - 37 at the One of A Kind Show beginning next thursday Nov 24th thru Dec 4th, - [Juried into Summer & Grace Gallery Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/juried-into-summer-grace-gallery-exhibition/) - Cindy Cottrelle from Summer and Grace Gallery shared eagerly awaited news that both submitted works found enough merit in the eye of the judges to be juried into their upcoming exhibition - [beech leaves sunny side up](https://zarowsky.net/beech-leaves-sunny-side-up/) - a currant theme tying most of the work together, more so than merely running thru it is losing oneself in a clear blue sky day following an overnight snowfall. Check us out at Booth L - 37 at the One of a Kind at the Enercare Centre, this Nov 24th thru Dec 4th, 2022. beech - [sun lines](https://zarowsky.net/sun-lines/) - simplifying what we see. just that simple. fair amount of work but in the end. simple. sunlines (8) 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available see this and more, buy this and more, at our booth at the One of A Kind Show this Nov 24th, thru Dec 4th, - [sunlines](https://zarowsky.net/sunlines/) - designs on winter: flow of sunlight in winter as a small series of 's u n l i n e s' sunlines 5 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 550.00 - [Come see us at the One of a Kind](https://zarowsky.net/come-see-us-at-the-one-of-a-kind/) - will be at the One Of A Kind this Nov 24th thru Dec 4th, 2022 come see us / our new works in BOOTH L - 37 adding new works almost daily to the winterlight pages 'light across a winter trail' 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available - [New work at Petroff](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-petroff/) - simply cause, while working on it, still haven't figured out how to be in 2 places at once, dropped of just under a dozen new works at Petroff Gallery today. one work; from days i was able to go snowshoeing after winter dressed up all in white overnight.... sunrise, forest along southwood road, muskoka, 24" - [New work at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-arta-gallery-3/) - dropped off a dozen new works with Fay n' Liza at the Arta Gallery in the Distillery....Fay has promised me a wall for my pieces for her Holiday Exhibition starting now, okay soon like next week... one of the few pieces included that are not winter... autumn light (1) 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic - [not yet posted new winter works](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-works-3/) - another of the latest winter works not yet posted anywhere.. The paintings are detailed enough to make them a blend of impressionism / realism / loose enough to have all the life in them i seek to express and share... snowshoeing through a forest clearing flooded with daylight bringing into light wonderful gliding shadow patterns - [new winter works](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-works-2/) - from now till the One Of A KInd Show November 24th, opens, will try to post new work almost daily, work for the galleries that rep us, for the show itself; 'almost' cause spending most of the time lost working through new ideas...and i just forget to remember to do a lot of things each - [early notice about the One of A Kind Show](https://zarowsky.net/early-notice-about-the-one-of-a-kind-show/) - having paid for the space, for the hard walls making up the booth, for the lighting, for parking, i received the booth location. L -37. not the location i had in mind, having asked for a booth in the art gallery aisle, but all that matters is the ease with which people who come to - [new work at relocated gallery reopening](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-relocated-gallery-reopening/) - Delivered new works to the relocated re opening next week Gallery on the Lake now in Ajax. up the stairs at 335 Bayly St West at Finley St. in Ajax. autumn pond 20 / 30" x 35" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [manta rays panels floating thru the studio](https://zarowsky.net/manta-rays-panels-floating-thru-the-studio/) - morning spent gessoing panels without edges as yet panels with edges backs of panels both with and without edges looking like a squadron of manta rays gliding thru the studio.... - [my entry accepted into CSPWC Open Water 2022](https://zarowsky.net/my-entry-accepted-into-cspwc-open-water-2022/) - my rain flooded trout pond watercolour 'sunlight reflecting autumn' has been juried into the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour Open Water 2022 Exhibition. A sincere thank you to the judges who liked what we are up to now enough to include this work in the upcoming exhibition. to check out all the work - [live winter theatre](https://zarowsky.net/live-winter-theatre/) - surprise of coming upon openness in the southwood road forests where the air sweeps thru on the shafts of light in this case rolling thru the windshaped snow blanketing the ground; for me it is live winter theatre; i have said it before, i came upon it uninvited, but now that i am here am - [2 works in the70th Annual C F S Open Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/12712-2/) - the second of two of my entries were accepted into the 70th Colour and Form Society's Open Juried Exhibition September 20th thru October 13th, 2022 at the Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, 3999 The West Mall, Toronto they included my image of the 'trout pond' in the bottom right of their flyer. trout pond ( - [70th Annual C F S Open Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/70th-annual-c-f-s-open-juried-exhibition/) - two of my entries were accepted into the 70th Colour and Form Society's Open Juried Exhibition September 20th thru October 13th, 2022 at the Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, 3999 The West Mall, Toronto overnigtht snowfall (new snowfall articulating every nuance of the pine out sunnidale road west of angus) 48" x 24" watercolour / - ['infinity rings' available at Paint Ontario](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-available-at-paint-ontario/) - my infinity rings (18" x 29.5") watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel is available at this years Paint Ontario Exhibition at the Lambton Museum in Grand Bend, from September 2nd thru 25th, 2022. ‘ongoing continuity’ explains my idea of working in series. I will start with an idea, - (funny that the finished - ['new snowfall for a new pine'](https://zarowsky.net/new-snowfall-for-a-new-pine/) - first of 2 works from hwy 28 around eels creek juried into Colborne Gallery 9th Annual Juried Exhibition Sept 16th - Nov 6th, 2022. 51 King St East, Colborne, ON. rock cuts are predictably ugly open at the top tunnels we drive thru without the blink of an eye. at one such cut along hwy - [Colborne Gallery Exhibition flyer](https://zarowsky.net/colborne-gallery-exhibition-flyer/) - a colour coordinated flyer promoting 2nd of two works from hwy 28 around eels creek juried into Colborne Gallery 9th Annual Juried Exhibition Sept 16th - Nov 6th, 2022. 51 King St East, Colborne, ON rock cuts are predictably ugly open at the top tunnels we drive thru without the blink of an eye. at - [2nd of 2 works in the Colborne Gallery 9th Annual Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/2nd-of-2-works-in-the-colborne-gallery-9th-annual-juried-exhibition/) - 2nd of two works from hwy 28 around eels creek juried into Colborne Gallery 9th Annual Juried Exhibition Sept 16th - Nov 6th, 2022. 51 King Street East, Colborne ON rock cuts are predictably ugly open at the top tunnels we drive thru without the blink of an eye. at one such cut along hwy - [2 works in the Colborne Gallery 9th Annual Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/2-works-in-the-colborne-gallery-9th-annual-juried-exhibition/) - 2nd of two works from hwy 28 around eels creek juried into Colborne Gallery 9th Annual Juried Exhibition Sept 16th - Nov 6th, 2022. 51 King Street East, Colborne ON rock cuts are predictably ugly open at the top tunnels we drive thru without the blink of an eye. at one such cut along hwy - [abstract impressionism](https://zarowsky.net/abstract-impressionism/) - some ideas break down to simples with an ease that makes me think for a minute i have a brain or something. in this case winter reduced to pure light and shadow with a few uprights inbetween the snow is for me at the abstract end of winter, impressionistic at the same time, so what - [final week at Auburn Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/final-week-at-auburn-gallery/) - My exhibition at Teresa's Auburn Gallery, runs its final week finishing on the 10th, okay so more than a week...plenty of time to check out our new water patterns and winterlight works... - [sundialing summer](https://zarowsky.net/sundialing-summer/) - a number of bikes sun-dialing the summer away around the university along Harbord lido bikes 182 16'' x 20" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / new / available / 680. - [lakeside birches](https://zarowsky.net/lakeside-birches/) - riverside birches / lake side birches / riverside screens / lakeside screens / an ongoing series with views to the water through 'screens' of trees and bushes and plants lining the shorelines.... lakefront birches 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available at studio. - [around the sun](https://zarowsky.net/around-the-sun/) - Teresa at Auburn Gallery came up with the idea for her poster 'around the sun' as a coverall description linking all the works in my upcoming exhibition at her gallery come august 20th, which run from new works in the ongoing series 'water lilies and wild rice' to the light streaming thru the draped in - [solo exhibition at Auburn Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/solo-exhibition-at-auburn-gallery/) - posting an early advance notice of my upcoming solo exhibition at Teresa's Auburn Gallery in Gravenhurst come August 20th; a new series of waterliles and wild rice works, (some of which have been recently shown in posts on this blog), and include new winterlight thru the forest works from days of snow shoeing thru southwood - [sun reflections](https://zarowsky.net/sun-reflections/) - come october with its rains, depressions inside the forest fill up making instant rain ponds that stay till the ground absorbs the water and the reflections that it offered up. truly unique moments in time. until the next rain, which, never the same will be its own new unique moment. painting the visually different reflections - [Oakville Art in the Park this weekend](https://zarowsky.net/oakville-art-in-the-park-this-weekend/) - hope to see everyone come monday, the far, and hopefully sunny side of the long weekend, showing / selling all new works in the ‘oakville art in the park’ event come August 1st, 10 am to 5 pm, in booth 149. the show is located at the waterfront park at the bottom of bronte road. - [lido bikes](https://zarowsky.net/lido-bikes/) - most of the bike ideas that, once painted, make up the lido bike series, (where we rented and cycled the island, and then painted the once you rent one, you can't help but see them everywhere you look bikes dominating the lido, and for which we now we look to the streets of toronto) intentionally - [hi water reflections](https://zarowsky.net/hi-water-reflections/) - working out highly realistic yet approaching abstract patterns as the water reflects all that is going on around above below it, inlet along west arm of nippissing river day full of deep reflections 18" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 1200. - [autumn ponds in the middle of nowhere](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-ponds-in-the-middle-of-nowhere/) - autumn pond reflections. the magic lies inside the forests, where, come late fall, early october, the rains top up the ground water and then some, causing small depressions in the land to become instant ponds; pure individual moments in time, lasting as long as it takes to absorb the reflecting water into the ground, and - [oakville art in the park](https://zarowsky.net/oakville-art-in-the-park/) - looking forward to taking part with all new works in the 'oakville art in the park' event come August 1st, 10 am to 5 pm, in booth 149. the show is located at the waterfront park at the bottom of bronte road. - [catching the light](https://zarowsky.net/catching-the-light-2/) - catching the light; a 'title that expresses an ongoing idea of individual moments across the breadth of the day where sunlight highlights / spotlights in this case, a pine at water's edge. catching the light / georgian bay 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [new 'autumn pond' series](https://zarowsky.net/new-autumn-pond-series/) - trout pond continues to reveal the richness of possibilities catching the light all day long as the sun tracks west autumn on the pond 67 30" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available - [Accepted into 54th Open International Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/accepted-into-54th-open-international-juried-exhibition/) - August 4th – 27th, 2022 54th Open International Juried Exhibition by Society of Canadian Artists – Dear micheal zarowsky, Thank you for entering our 54th International Open Juried Exhibition. We are pleased to let you know that your work: Micheal Zarowsky, Daylight chasing shadows, Acrylic, 30x30 , price: 2600.00 Micheal Zarowsky, Open cedar stream, Watercolour, - [Paint Ontario come Septmber](https://zarowsky.net/paint-ontario-come-septmber/) - My entry infinity rings (117) 18” x 29.5” juried into Paint Ontario - September 2 – 25, 2022 the Grand Bend Art Centre on the Show and Sale at the Lambton Heritage Museum :Paint Ontario c/o Lambton Heritage Museum, 10035 Museum Road, RR #2 Grand Bend, ON N0M 1T0 519-243-2600 Inquiries: Grand Bend Art Centre • - [works on paper](https://zarowsky.net/works-on-paper/) - longest exhibition / show i have ever been part of. 14 of my watercolours on arches paper Work on Paper / colborne street gallery / fenellon falls ON although they list the town as kawartha lakes i did deliver the works to fenallon falls so you can choose which town you want to see the - [richness of small streams](https://zarowsky.net/richness-of-small-streams/) - Wanderings along the length of a stream as it twists and turns around corners n bends with the fullness of overgrown plants and trees lining up as close to the water as possible both for the water and the sunlight that the open space provides, the stream mostly shallow thru straight stretches except for deep - [summer venues](https://zarowsky.net/summer-venues/) - was emailed a question as to whether we will be taking part in riverdale artwalk this coming weekend. simply put. this year no. the costs were unaffordable given the response we have had the last 2 years so we are trying some new venues - august 1st, 10 am to 5 pm, at the Oakville - [beaver pond reflections](https://zarowsky.net/backwater-reflections/) - All the time Wendy n I spent ‘meditating’ (would cover it as a term) sitting by the waters edge, just losing our edges, becoming one with where we were, those realized moments, form the basis of all our water paintings. The realization that the true beauty of the place, of the moment, as well as - [undulating reflections](https://zarowsky.net/undulating-reflections/) - can sit by the waters edge for what seems like days on end just watching the water slowly reflect everything around it as it comes ashore 'reflecting out forever' 24" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available at studio. 2400. - [Oakville Art in the Park to start August](https://zarowsky.net/oakville-art-in-the-park-to-start-august/) - there is never enough time, so i don't worry about it; posting early; it may seem a long way off, way off at the other end of summer, but for me working towards it and a solo show later that month as i put aside new works created for both events August looms soon-ingly large - [solo exxxxxxhibition at auburn gallery in august](https://zarowsky.net/solo-exxxxxxhibition-at-auburn-gallery-in-august/) - working away / towards a solo exhibition of new works / at Auburn Gallery in Gravenhurst, ON August 20th - Sept 4th, 2022 including new ideas exploring the ongoing series of water lilies and wild rice reflections / new 'autumn on the pond' works / latest winter works from blue sky days along southwood road - [airiness of spring](https://zarowsky.net/airiness-of-spring/) - late winter open stream working water lilies and wild rice for the oakville and auburn gallery shows, in the meantime, in a lateral move, completing another idea from the winter just passed what's left of winter soft & melting across the interior of the forest visually opening up a depth of leftover fall colours saugeen - [Waterlilies at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/waterlilies-at-arta-gallery/) - delivered the latest waterlilies, an ongoing series, to Ambreen at Arta Gallery today who liked them enough to put the up right away. Reflections in the middle of nowhere / moments in a continuous journey. actually after finally delivering new work to Ethel Curry Gallery in Halliburton, end of april , where Kimberley took 8 - [water lilies and wild rice / lines](https://zarowsky.net/12463-2/) - room for the unexpected the water lilies and wild rice are currently filling my head and this latest one, 'water lilies and wild rice # 16', by being closer to drawing with paint than not, shaping colour out of the white to the point of abstraction, and yet, not. (earlier works on dories, also grew - [new work at Ethel Curry Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-ethel-curry-gallery/) - dropped off new works at the Ethel Curry Gallery in Halliburton yesterday. then, went sketching, and to my dismay found out that devils lake has been discovered. big honking sign declaring the east entrance to the queen elizabeth wildlands prov park. oh well, losing one of our sources - painted many of our infinity rings - [water lilies and wild rice](https://zarowsky.net/water-lilies-and-wild-rice/) - water lilies and wild rice ..... water lilies & wild rice 15 / working water lilies and wild rice as close to abstraction without losing the reality of the shoreline waters and plants while leaving room for the unexpected. devils lake and margaret lake few miles north of it, both continue to provide everchanging yearly - [windstirred](https://zarowsky.net/windstirred-2/) - most of the time we make our own water patterns, but not always; some times we work with the wind as it visually stirs the surface - as it makes the water come alive with movement - flowing with a sweep over the water gently roughing it up like mussing up a kids hair....not that - [black river infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/black-river-infinity-rings/) - the literally fast flowing jet black water of the black river at coopers falls follows runs inches from the road leaving virtually no streambank for the trees clinging to life to maintain purchase on and every so often one of them topples and floats atop the river until the roots system breaks free and it - [Happy Easter](https://zarowsky.net/happy-easter/) - spare moments inbetween munching on choco bunnies; the sun is shining it is 7C out everything is quietly grunting green before it exxxxplodes into the rebirth we call spring...and i am posting a winter watercolour....another, following the last post, although not a streambank but a sideroad em bank ment; when they get windshaped like this - [light into blue](https://zarowsky.net/light-into-blue/) - Treating light as pure source sunlit frozen streambank the higher bank of a stream running thru Stayner, just hundred feet north of busy hwy 26 which outside of the locals who back onto the stream, that no one ever even notices....i liked the 'feel' of Escher here not birds int fish or anything but 'light - [riverside screens](https://zarowsky.net/riverside-screens/) - we have continuously explored the idea of seeing thru to the water, having your view somewhat obscured by the stand of trees in front of you and the mystery of the view they are only offering glimpses of.... you would think this so common as to make up every shoreline embracing any lake river or - ['Infinity rings' part of CFS Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-part-of-cfs-exhibition/) - my painting, 'infinity rings with autumn pond reflection' is part of the "Reflections" our roots our time Exhibition of the Colour & Form Society at Beaux Arts Gallery, Brampton April 6 - 30, 2022 opening reception: Sat April 9th, 12 to 3. - [blooms online show opens tonight](https://zarowsky.net/blooms-online-show-opens-tonight/) - Squarefootshow.com in Blooms opens tonight at 8 pm. i have 5 new wildflowers paintings in this event, including the red trilliums / 12x12 / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / - [sweeping stretches of sunlight...](https://zarowsky.net/sweeping-stretches-of-sunlight/) - weather system passing thru brought low temps n dusting of snow with it which is excuse enough to post latest winter work, one of several still blowing with icy fresh clarity in / thru my brain, from snowshoeing thru foot and half sunswept snow drifts outlining the rolly polly, (much like those long long rolling - [pool n' ball](https://zarowsky.net/pool-n-ball/) - sadly with winter in retreat, hah, okay. slowly melting back in visually swirling stretches of naturally designed patches of snow exposing the flattened rich earth colours underneath, we are exploring several new ideas, including a small pool n ball series, which floats us further ahead into the coming summer pool n' ball 1 12" x - [waterplay](https://zarowsky.net/waterplay/) - waterplay 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 350 / posted in the cityscapes page - [new interest in our works on paper](https://zarowsky.net/new-interest-in-our-works-on-paper/) - delivered a number of works on paper to an art gallery new to us, the Colborne Street Gallery in Fenelon Falls, in response to their putting out a call for aptly names, works on paper. (these all present unframed; my experience is that interested parties like to / want to choose exactly the way they - [online shows this weekend](https://zarowsky.net/online-shows-this-weekend/) - lots on the go this weekend, from the Online Show / Sale at Kingsway-Lambton, fundraiser, to the SquareFootShow.com online blooms show / sale. the big thing i miss about either event not being a bricks n mortar show, is talking with everyone who comes to the booth. ( i know some online shows allow messaging - [series of local barns](https://zarowsky.net/series-of-local-barns/) - couple years back at the Kingsway Lambton Show, we garnered a fair amount of interest when we showed a barn with cattle lounging around in front, much like kids at school during fire drill, and although none of the cows were smoking, cow pattties all around certainly were. the thought after the show agreed to - [summer lilies](https://zarowsky.net/12244-2/) - 5 lilies on a day full of deep reflections ( sketches from a beaver pond with spreading wild day lilies overgrowing the banks, beyond which were colonies of water lilies sun-bobbing on the windstirred waters; on upper big chute rd / before severn falls, ) 12" x 12" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on - [new gallery showing works on paper](https://zarowsky.net/new-gallery-showing-works-on-paper/) - feels like i posted this work prior to today even though i can't find where i might have done so by scrolling back thru time .... ..... one of 15 works on paper that the Colborne Street Gallery in Fenelon Falls chose to carry/show/promote//sell in their gallery. day lilies and summer hammocks 22" x 30" - [sun trails](https://zarowsky.net/sun-trails/) - the idea of being able to walk up / walk into pure light situation just ahead of you is one that remains fresh each time you gaze on it. trail thru sunshine / 18" x 36" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / new / available / included in the Kingsway-Lambton ONLINE - [full moon and sunshine](https://zarowsky.net/full-moon-and-sunshine/) - woke up to friday sunshine after thursday's freezing rain with snow following, tossed stuff together and scooted up north, heading for southwood road, took a left turn got waylaid on the snowcovered fringes of aurora / hwy 48 happily losing myself and the whole day there...while people may say it has been a snowy winter, - [Overhanging Shoreline Reflections](https://zarowsky.net/overhanging-shoreline-reflections/) - for anyone walking along underneath the sections of the eramosa river which are totally cathedraled over from cedars lining both sides of the river, prepare to be greeted by an atmosphere complete with shafts of light beaming down, shinning thru breaks in the tree branches onto swift moving waters weaving in and out of the - [from the vaults....](https://zarowsky.net/from-the-vaults/) - no vaults here, not even a version of vaultzing matilda. used the title to create a creaking sort of intrigue......anyways... a few years back, round 86" it was, approached by and worked with consultants to create a winter painting which they then produced as a 7" x 10" print for Union Carbide which gave them - [Blue Sky Day part of Winter Blues Exh](https://zarowsky.net/blue-sky-day-part-of-winter-blues-exh/) - 'blue sky day' is available as part of the 'winter blues exhibition' at Art of Emotions Gallery, Toronto https://www.artofemotionsgallery.com/2022-winter-blues/... blue sky day trail thru sunlight 24" x 30" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 2300 at Art of Emotions Gallery - [Live Interview at Petroff Gallery With Erin & Ivan.....and me...](https://zarowsky.net/live-interview-at-petroff-gallery-with-erin-ivan-and-me/) - Met with Erin and Ivan at The Petroff Gallery today and tried to talk thru a whole range of ideas all concerning our work; the hows and why's, that our work offers a unique dialogue on the canadian landscape; that painting is a spiritual process connecting us to the world, our language our way of - [open cedar stream](https://zarowsky.net/open-cedar-stream/) - intimacy along an open cedar stream where a fallen tree makes a natural bridge for critters large and small, although this critter crossed further downstream where it was a no brainer effort only a mere hop across. had posted it with a large snow mass at the base of the tree, and days later decided - [day full of deep reflections](https://zarowsky.net/day-full-of-deep-reflections/) - waiting on decent snow n sunshine in the near north.... get to work on one of my other loves... water.... 5 lilies on a day full of deep reflections 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / message studio / 325.00 / ships fed ex same day - [Works on paper exhibition at Petroff](https://zarowsky.net/works-on-paper-exhibition-at-petroff/) - left 14 new works on paper with Erin and Ivan at Petroff Gallery today for their upcoming Works on paper Exhibition most of the works are matted up with backing, all museum quality acid free, ( for now, since new changes to the website have come our way, seem to be able to upload only - [changes in focus](https://zarowsky.net/changes-in-focus/) - looking back, see that i have recently pendulumed over to working more open winters, with more areas of pure sunlight with blue streaks holding it all together / a different kind of confidence in what i encounter snowshoeing..... sunswept clearing 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel new / available 325.00 - [HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE](https://zarowsky.net/happy-new-year-to-everyone/) - [water patterns / dan lake](https://zarowsky.net/water-patterns-dan-lake/) - continuing to work on the blue sky series, spent saturday / part of today working on what may be a new direction / a new series of water patterns infinity rings with autumn reflection (5) dan lake 20" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 1200 - [Seasons Greetings](https://zarowsky.net/seasons-greetings-4/) - Seasons Greetings Happy Holidays to Everyone / re posting using one of our 'blue sky day' works sharing an email that arrived this morning / grateful that and when people can see our work and appreciatively overwhelmed by the poetry of their responses to what we create.: "Sometimes your art is so beautiful it makes - [Seasons Greetings](https://zarowsky.net/seasons-greetings-3/) - Seasons Greetings Happy Holidays to Everyone. - [small works for the holidays](https://zarowsky.net/small-works-for-the-holidays/) - small works from bushwacked trails in georgian bay / forests snowshoed along southwood road / access roads ending at margaret, sherborne and dan lakes / and magical light here and there along the way / available for delivery this week, okay and next, but the interest / focus is on offering gift solutions here and - [new 'waterlilies and wild rice' work](https://zarowsky.net/new-waterlilies-and-wild-rice-work/) - the waterlilies and wild rice paintings that we first started in the moon river basin area of georgian bay, then rediscovered at skye lake, and now are working from a newly discovered lake all forming a slow ongoing series in which we work out flowing patterns / designs offering everyone the possible abstract visual delight - [New Blue Sky Day painting](https://zarowsky.net/new-blue-sky-day-painting/) - feels like i am letting even more light into my ideas and consequently into the paintings themselves. blue sky day 10 / daylight reaching deep into the forest forest along southwood road, muskoka, 20" x 24" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available at studio 1450.00 - [new Zarowsky' winters at Auburn Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-zarowsky-winters-at-auburn-gallery/) - delivered half a dozen and one new works to Teresa"s Auburn Gallery in Gravenhurst on monday and went off sketching along southwood road, which not only had several inches of snow, but also snow mobile tracks everywhere...seems locals are not waiting scratching their itch to be out in the bush. blue streamers running across the - [weekend showing](https://zarowsky.net/weekend-showing/) - Weekend showing at Woodington Lakes Golf Club, outside of Totenham; a big heartfelt thank you to good friend Piero, who arranged the entire thing. blue sky day 7 forest along southwood road muskoka 36" x 48" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessod panel / available - [new work at Auburn Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/12057-2/) - Teresa showing quickminded / clever on the spot video promotion can be fun / thank you. bringing up new works to Auburn Gallery in Gravenhurst this weekend, - [Gallery On the Lake closing](https://zarowsky.net/gallery-on-the-lake-closing/) - Esther let us know she has sold her gallery, and will close her doors around christmas / december 26thish. She is offering discounts on the works she has of ours until the day she shutters her doors. we are now looking for a new gallery to show / sell our work in the kawarthas / - [our display at One Of A Kind](https://zarowsky.net/our-display-at-one-of-a-kind/) - the display went thru / underwent at least 189 adjustments rehangings daily. nothing neeeeeeeeurotic about that. anyways survived it. long arduous hours talk your fool head off graciously accept compliments thank you to everyone who came out and said hello; reconnected with people from decades ago; a most gracious thank you to those who like - [looking for a perfect winter day series](https://zarowsky.net/looking-for-a-perfect-winter-day-series/) - " looking for a perfect winter day" as an ongoing series of works expressing light within the forest on a blue sky day make up a good part of what we are exhibiting for sale at the One Of A Kind Show running thru Dec 5th, 2021 'blue sky day' / 16" x 16" watercolour - [Small Winter light works at One Of A Kind](https://zarowsky.net/11980-2/) - Small Winterlight paintings at The One Of A Kind worked out a series of blue sky day paintings from the snowbelt strip that is southwood road / severn river area. snowshoe-ed thru the forest creating visual moments of as close to a perfect day you can have - sunshine the morning after a winter snowfall - [Almost set up / showing 'blue sky day' series](https://zarowsky.net/almost-set-up-showing-blue-sky-day-series/) - [Zarowsky at At One Of A Kind / Booth H 33](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-at-one-of-a-kind-booth-h-33/) - OOAK opens next week some of the winter magic you will find in our booth at next weeks opening of the One Of A KInd / OOAK Show BOOTH H33 daylight running down the hillside 16x16 watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available 550 - [blue sky day](https://zarowsky.net/blue-sky-day-3/) - ....blue sky day is working out as a ongoing series.... blue sky day (8) 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available - [sunlit](https://zarowsky.net/sunlit/) - wandering thru the forest i am drawn like a moth to light, especially when shafts of golden light beam down and create a stage setting for one of the inhabitants 'sunlit: spotlit moments in the forest' 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available / a preview of - [New Winter pieces at Julia Veenstra SQ FT Show](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-pieces-at-julia-veenstra-sq-ft-show/) - Have 5 new winter pieces in Julia Veenstra"s Square Foot Show / Online / goes live Nov 3rd 8.p.m. November 3 - 5, 2021 will add link to show when it becomes available - [new work at Gallery on the Lake for Thanksgiving](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-gallery-on-the-lake-for-thanksgiving/) - Gallery on the Lake is offering a discount on our work over thanksgiving weekend; including.... sunlight downstream autumning out of 6 mile lake 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic ;painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [lost and found](https://zarowsky.net/lost-and-found-2/) - Found this water pattern after 3 months of first, looking, giving up on finding it, declaring it lost to a client, it was right where I never put it /7 infinity rings 144 / 12" x 20" / watercolour - - [new places to experience new borned days](https://zarowsky.net/new-places-to-experience-new-borned-days/) - think i can safely say everyone enjoys a sunset; remember gathering around 5 at mallory square in key west to see if we could see the green flash just before the sun hit the water at the other end of the day, or rather at the beginning of a new day watch a - [new interiors at Petroff](https://zarowsky.net/new-interiors-at-petroff/) - dropped off, 7 new works with Mariana at Petroff Gallery on Eglinton Av W this morning other, moments in time interiors sharing the planet flutterby at the window 20" x 15" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel blue sky day 20" x 16" x 1 - [restlessness as a colour](https://zarowsky.net/restlessness-as-a-colour/) - restlessness as a colour red rustle of leaves chasing silence across the pond 40" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available for now at Arta Gallery in the distillery - [winter pieces juried into Paint Ontario Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/winter-pieces-juried-into-paint-ontario-exhibition/) - 3 of my winter pieces were juried into the 25th Paint Ontario Exhibition / Sale Sept 3 – 26th, 2021 At the Lambton Heritage Museum, in Grand Bend, Ontario https://paintontario.com/ daylight chasing shadows 30" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel new snowfall - [northern river](https://zarowsky.net/northern-river/) - Long stream long time long drifts of days / a long salmon lake road northern-river-5- 31" x 32" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 2700 - [windstirred moments](https://zarowsky.net/windstirred-moments/) - for those days autumn feels like it is in a bag with too many cats....... .. ..scribbled autumn colour huddles of shoreline grasses ..... "shoreline grasses edging the windstirred afternoon drift of autumn" 32" x 19" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 2300. - [autumn red](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-red/) - 2 new fall pieces added to the 'meditations on autumn' folder / available autumn red 2 / 36" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel autumn red / 40" x 26" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [infinity rings on paper](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-on-paper/) - worked out a a tsunami's worth of infinity rings ( can one say that to suggest endlessness of wave movements and moments ) of which are left / are available a half dozen or so, larger infinity rings on paper / sizes speak of loose paper only most are from margaret lake which is - [infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-5/) - one of our infinity rings on paper enjoying living with the sun out west / thanks Mari Jo. looks absolutely just great what you got did. i infinity rings 157 26 x 50" watercolour on arches " paper. - [exploring winter in a new light](https://zarowsky.net/exploring-winter-in-a-new-light/) - earlier in the year had posted a lateral move which actually moves forward into as yet unexplored ideas wanderring thru the filtering light in a pine forest off southwood road muskoka blue sky day 40" x 36" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / - [new georgian bay at auburn gallery's 12x12 exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/new-georgian-bay-at-auburn-gallerys-12x12-exhibition/) - August 6th thru 21st, 2021 the north shore, 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on g/essoed panel retails at 325.00; on sale at Teresa's for 225.00 ----------------------------------------- another month another square foot show, this particular popular event unfolding at Teresa's auburn gallery in gravenhurst; where i - [Open Cedar Stream juried into OSA Members Selected Works Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/11730-2/) - share an acceptance email from Robin about the OSA 2021 members selected works exhibition; _____________________________________________________________________________ Hello MESW Artists! Thank you for your submission to the OSA’s MESW 2021. We have over 80 works submitted – it looks like a great show. Dates: September 8-26, 2021 Location: Neilson Park Creative Centre, 56 Neilson Drive, Toronto, - [on an afternoon with so much light](https://zarowsky.net/on-an-afternoon-with-so-much-light/) - some days you can feel the light and see the air all in one fell swoop silence come october / margaret lake 20" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 1200.00 some 1,000 feet north east portage from Marg lake on an - [only place to find winter today](https://zarowsky.net/only-place-to-find-winter-today/) - different ends of coming and going / winter is only 'to be found' here at the studio at the moment / everything green and overgrown while working towards the exhibitions we have coming up. a sun shining 30 below everything frozen in colour and the streams are running, are open contradicting reality. you - [celebrating relatively new trees on elm avenue](https://zarowsky.net/celebrating-relatively-new-trees-on-elm-avenue/) - been painting the trees up at the opposite corner of the street where we live, then they got chainsawed, so these are the new growth trees and the first paintings of them new-morning-on-elm-avenue 12" x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 550.00 the trees - [blue sky day](https://zarowsky.net/blue-sky-day-2/) - blue sky day st martin 16" x16.5" watercolour on arches paper / this has not seen the light of day for a while now... looking back; wow! a very direct watercolour on paper for me, am sure might have had summed up the idea of the light with some catchy phrase back then, but for now, - [trade winds](https://zarowsky.net/trade-winds/) - trade winds jamaica summer and the caribbean is (was) usually on off peak pricing from april to november and we found it an affordable time to island hop 9" x 14" watercolour on arches paper / available unframed 250.00 dug on an early slideshow assembly of works from - [https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=8761](https://zarowsky.net/https-www-eventeny-com-company-c8761/) - https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=8761 this years' riverdale artwalk online exhibition has come and gone; my page, and as such, i assume, everyone's pages are still accessible online - for now. my issues, (other than the obvious, riverdale artwalk is not a known brand so no one, other than people the artists themselves send a link to, knows to - [I don’t think I’m painting what I am seeing…](https://zarowsky.net/i-dont-think-im-painting-what-i-am-seeing/) - Finding out I am more stylized than I believed / I don’t think I’m painting what I am seeing… island edge killarney g bay 12" x 15.5" / watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel : comments from FB; Susan Smith-McPherson I love it Micheal! Micheal Zarowsky Susan - [wave with red lilies](https://zarowsky.net/wave-with-red-lilies/) - latest in ongoing infinity rings series morphing emphasis / focus a bit to the tip of the curve wave with red lilies 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [2 new works accepted into SCA 153rd International Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/2-new-works-accepted-into-sca-153rd-international-exhibition/) - got an email letting me know, my entries were juried into the 153 SCA International Exhibition July 26 to September 31, 2021, on the SCA website. Hello micheal zarowsky, Thank you for entering our 53rd International Open Juried Exhibition. We are pleased to let you know that your work: 8028.434570.1687741 floating birch - [new small Zarowsky works at Auburn Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-small-zarowsky-works-at-auburn-gallery/) - Invited by Teresa to put in 5 small pieces for her Square Foot Show and Sale some of the possibilities.... clouds rolling in, georgian bay 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel autumns-drift- 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel August 6 thru to - [prices added to posted works](https://zarowsky.net/prices-added-to-posted-works/) - new works added to Riverdale Artwalk as Exhibition continues online thru July 2nd, 2021. please visit us on shopify: https://micheal-zarowsky-fine-art.myshopify.com/ for a larger selection of available works to choose from; or......................looking forward to the response of having gone thru the website and posting prices underneath each work after the title size n medium so - [Riverdale Artwalk opens online today](https://zarowsky.net/riverdale-artwalk-opens-online-today/) - starts today; okay okay, opening was last night i almost virtually went but could not find any virtual sneakers to wear 30+ new works at the Riverdale Artwalk June 18th thru July 2nd Online Exhibition, https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=8761 - [new idea surrounding georgian bay](https://zarowsky.net/new-idea-surrounding-georgian-bay/) - new idea surrounding georgian bay hopefully it is interesting enough to create interest in everyone who sees it.. At any time, in fact all the time, we juggle a lot of ideas in the air so to speak; All we can ask for from anyone getting their first look at our work, - [light filtering thru the forest](https://zarowsky.net/light-filtering-thru-the-forest/) - showcasing another of 30 new works at the Riverdale Artwalk June 18th thru July 2nd Online Exhibition, https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=8761 wandering thru the filtering light in a pine forest off southwood road muskoka blue sky day 2 26" x 34" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [new works at Riverdale Artwalk Online Exh.](https://zarowsky.net/new-works-at-riverdale-artwalk-online-exh/) - showing 30 new works at the Riverdale Artwalk June 18th thru July 2nd Online Exhibition, https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=8761 wandering thru the filtering light in a pine forest off southwood road muskoka\ overnight snowfall / blue sky day following. 24" x 42" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available / 2600.00 message us - [riverdale artwalk online exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/11566-2/) - Happy summer, hopefully you have stayed strong and survived this pandemic safely. Inviting you to check out some of our new works as we are part of the Riverdale ArtWalk Online Exhibition this year https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=8761 wandering thru the filtering light in a pine forest off southwood road muskoka blue sky day 40" x 36" watercolour - [blue sky day](https://zarowsky.net/blue-sky-day/) - blue sky day how perfect ................... blue sky day 40" x 36" new / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available message me if interested - [simplified details](https://zarowsky.net/simplified-details/) - working concurrently on several projects - continuing the water pieces, and as fall then winter will be here before you know it, working extra hours on new winter and fall pieces for down the soon to be travelled road.. winter was either visually stunning when it was and begging for snow the rest of the - [trees overhanging summer](https://zarowsky.net/trees-overhanging-summer/) - a number of years ago i worked out the early rain paintings on location on shorelines of a overgrown pond at the base of a steep cedar lined hill the cedars standing providing me a drip here n drop there dryness and cedars laying on the ground making for a table I have been interested - [windstirred](https://zarowsky.net/windstirred/) - the latest incarnation of a rise of water as i have continued into the second week of working this i say this cause what was thought finished but became only a stop in a continuing work over versions of the work were put up in recent days..... watching windplay on the surface of the water - [spring melt](https://zarowsky.net/spring-melt/) - spring melt / runoff / instant ponds inside the forest drowned land 20" x 26" watercolour on arches paper /available / 1800 - [Mornings and water.](https://zarowsky.net/11521-2/) - Mornings and water. A natural fit. No maps to explain how i got here 'all daylong reflections' 24" x 32" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available 2400.00 - [rainy day magic](https://zarowsky.net/rainy-day-magic/) - Hi water shoreline disappearing during and after a rain \ Indenting the shoreline with new autumn reflections ---------------------------------------- 'rainy day magic' 24" x 24" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel i may not have the sense to come in out of the - [northern lake part of 'View From Here Exhibition' link](https://zarowsky.net/northern-lake-part-of-view-from-here-exhibition-link/) - got a link to The View From Here Exhibition at the Leslie Grove Gallery, Toronto in / at which my 'northern lake' painting is part of.this terrific show. Raquel from the Gallery Committee who designs the amazing show graphics, created social media posts for each one of you. You can access them on her Google - [mornings and water. a natural fit](https://zarowsky.net/mornings-and-water-a-natural-fit/) - working more with water and working on expressions of water reflections in autumns waiting room / leaving almost no unpainted colours / 'autumn in pond reflection freefall' 34" x 26" X 1 3/4" / water colour painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [new work at Petroff Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-petroff-gallery-2/) - Met with and left new works with, Mariana at Petroff Gallery, Toronto magnolias, water patterns /works and ponds with their reflections / including three infinity rings / spreading water galaxies like so much anxiety after a sunny day infinity rings 146 / 24" x 28" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on - [northern lake painting part of View From here Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/northern-lake-painting-part-of-view-from-here-exhibition/) - got email letting me know.... Hooray! Your application has been approved. Your application for The View From Here has been approved by The View From Here. Approval instructions Michael, Congratulations! One of your artworks “Northern Lake” will be featured in The Leslie Grove Gallery art show “The View from Here.” The show will - [moments in time](https://zarowsky.net/moments-in-time/) - come fall the rain indents, flows into, past, among the shoreline grasses, creating reflections which only last till the water levels get absorbed; moments in time.... Reflection stretching past autumn 18" x 24" . / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available . - [wwwwwwwwindstirred autumn](https://zarowsky.net/wwwwwwwwindstirred-autumn/) - blues for a sunny day spreading wave pattern / with red leaves floating by okay okay they have already floated on by water patterns as chances to get carried away beyond cheerfulness water lilies n pickerel weed 1 / devils lake 32" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available - [bringing then to now](https://zarowsky.net/11471-2/) - an indirect effect of the pandemic is that more work stayed in the studio than normally would, and we knew we had spare time before they would leave and time to spare to relook at them give them a second look to see what the difference in the thinking was then and is now and - [some days](https://zarowsky.net/some-days/) - quite often, while walking thru the forest, you some places you stop, stand, and for no explicable reason the forest around you becomes alive and you can feel a connection to the entire universe the magic was the openness above a paper thin ice sheet on what water was left on a pond - [Early (?) Easter and magnolias](https://zarowsky.net/early-easter-and-magnolias/) - Happy Passover to everyone who celebrates Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates Happy Spring to everyone who celebrates including a winter lover like myself two new available magnolia works magnolia 35 36" x 48" watercolour / acrylic painted directly gessoed panel magnolias 31 16" x - [a short short winter that was](https://zarowsky.net/a-short-short-winter-that-was/) - okay...maybe......just maybe, winter's left for a few months..... watercolour that for one reason or another was not included in any exhibition and as such never really shown outside the studio. shallow mid summer stream / emptying into the saugeen river / - [surprising look back](https://zarowsky.net/surprising-look-back/) - updated our files on awards over the years, to include the latest CFS award, and for no reason whatsoever added them up for a surprising 35 in total - ['high water' given award at CFS members show](https://zarowsky.net/high-water-given-award-at-cfs-members-show/) - woke up to an email from the Colour & Form Society about the jurying of the 2 foot square members show, which saw fit to grace my painting 'high water' with an honourable mention. posting all images that were sent my way..... Hello CFS members. The 2x2 SQUARE FOOT MEMBERS' EXHIBITION is now - [trails thru winter](https://zarowsky.net/trails-thru-winter/) - Normally I make my own trails, bushwack / break this trail thru the woods and I want you to wander thru where I found myself walking was visually stunning (bend in) winter trail thru winter 80 16" x 16" / w/c / acrylic winter trail thru - [New magnolias](https://zarowsky.net/new-magnolias/) - with winter in retreat, this is still probably the best, if not the only place to get snow in the city; in the meantime continue to delight thru working out some - [Kingsway-Lambton Online Art Show and Sale](https://zarowsky.net/kingsway-lambton-online-art-show-and-sale/) - have just a tad over 2 dozen new works on display at the Kingsway Lambton Art Show and Sale this weekend March 19th thru 28th, https://www.kingswaylambtonartshow.ca/.../micheal-zarowsky - [Zarowsky at Kingsway Lambton Online Show](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-kingsway-lambton-online-show/) - Micheal Zarowsky at Kingsway-Lambton Art Show & Sale NEW! ONLINE Art Show & Sale! March 19 - 28, 2021 The Kingsway-Lambton Art Show & Sale has moved ....ONLINE! * Featuring 31 Canadian Artists * / Browse the show & purchase online Buy Art - Support Local Charities / Stay up to date with - [spring and magnolias](https://zarowsky.net/spring-and-magnolias/) - spring magnolia (30) / 35" x 47" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel at Arta Gallery in the Distillery, Toronto - [Spring Show at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/spring-show-at-arta-gallery/) - new work at Arta Gallery"s Spring Show March 24th, 2021 located at 14 Distillery Lane, Toronto - [new work at Arta Gallery in the Distillery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-arta-gallery-in-the-distillery/) - S P R I N G F I R E W O R K S magnolia 29 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available at Arta Gallery in the Distillery ...............walking again thru areas i have no reason to............ - [upsidedown](https://zarowsky.net/upsidedown/) - this series of pond reflections comes closet to abstraction for us and we think we present an original idea, namely that of visual intereaction / relationship between the 2 worlds of shoreline and water. upsidedown morning with reflection 13.5" x 22" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [Colour and Form Society Members Show](https://zarowsky.net/colour-and-form-society-members-show/) - 2 water paintings High water shoreline reflection 24" x 24" entered into 2 Foot Square Show, at THE GALLERY, Niagara Falls, Ontario A Colour and Form Society Members Exhibition March 30 - April 24, 2021 / hours: tues to friday noon to 6; sat 11 am to 5 pm on-site Gallery Show and - [drowned land](https://zarowsky.net/drowned-land-2/) - DROWWWWWWNED LAND... of the many ' spring runoff ' i have painted where the water floods the whole forest making it look like it would be visually fun to kayak among the patches of just submerged ice, the solid dark wetness of the tree trunks standing their ground, rising up, enduring as it were their - [SCA 2021 Open International Online Juried Exhibtion](https://zarowsky.net/sca-2021-open-international-online-juried-exhibtion/) - Hello micheal zarowsky, Congratulations on having your entry(s) 7405.415118.1627944 (The beginning of) RAIN , price: 2600.00 ... accepted into the SCA 2021 Open International Online Juried Exhibition from March 15 to June 15, 2021. We are delighted that you have been selected to be a part of this event. After careful deliberation around - [venice watercolours: A long way from where the day began.](https://zarowsky.net/venice-watercolours-a-long-way-from-where-the-day-began/) - venice watercolours A long way from where the day began. for those for whom our work from venice is a new discovery; a few more visual surprises - rio delle procuratie / going under / venice 40" x 26" watercolour on arches paper guidecca venice 14" x 30" watercolour on arches paper - [venice watercolours available](https://zarowsky.net/venice-watercolours-available/) - spent a week taking another look at some earlier watercolours of / from venice here at the studio; of course no way i can look with only my eyes; brushes in both hands stuck a 3rd brush full of another colour in my mouth till i could use it, there being nowhere to put it - [repainting landmarks](https://zarowsky.net/repainting-landmarks/) - previously posted six works all displaying latest acted upon thoughts on them having not seen daylight for what could be years; lost myself in what became a solid busy week of pure fun bringing past thinking up to date.in so far it was possible to rework a watercolour.and have it remain a watercolour, more or - [my venice watercolours featured on / via Quanhua Watercolour Museum](https://zarowsky.net/my-venice-watercolours-featured-on-via-quanhua-watercolour-museum/) - Feels so strange to be on the receiving end of someones efforts on my behalf; sincerely feel grateful to Stella Dai, having found a second venue for me to show / to promote some of my earlier works, in this case a chosen few of my works from venice; via the Quanhua Museum of Watercolor - [watercolour sketches from venice](https://zarowsky.net/watercolour-sketches-from-venice/) - "Within the traditional system, there is a lot of pressure to do one type of work and then repeat it endlessly. You can see that in the majority of artists' work – it's called a signature image or an image that's easily identifiable. It becomes a brand. I'm not interested in that. It's absolutely boring - [sketches along an january stream](https://zarowsky.net/sketches-along-an-january-stream/) - problem with hiding things in the dark is every time i let some light in, i keep coming across, finding even more early watercolour sketches ..... ..... sketching stretching shadows across walked open streams and their reflections 1. eramosa river reflections 2 11.5" x 16" watercolour on arches paper / available 2. eramosa - ['new' lido bikes, a new happy.](https://zarowsky.net/new-lido-bikes-2/) - if you ever visited the lido bikes page you might have noticed that as new bike paintings were being added / posted and sold, a number of earlier bikes just sat there; there was nothing wrong with these bikes other than they were inaccessible in a gallery purgatory of sorts until i was finally able - [wandering](https://zarowsky.net/wandering/) - Wandering thru a new morning. wandering into new beginnings wandering past everyday grandeur seeping into a morning.. ..... wandering thru daylight into possibilities a blue sky - 21 C morning brings no wind to break the silence and - [reworking time itself](https://zarowsky.net/reworking-time-itself/) - if i have a reason to, i complain the same as anyone...although doing so publicly is a rare moment for me, so i want to think of this as an explanation more than a complaint, of why i needed to rework paintings that perhaps ought have sold the way they were initially painted some time - [visual upthink](https://zarowsky.net/wheelly-happy-to-get-these-back/) - a large number of works once again available, after a solid week of 16 hours days of reworking a number of lido bikes paintings into today's vision of what and where they ought be...in this case ...reworking from the ground up, changing the sunlit shadows grounding them, to a unifying grey with specks of previous - [earlier work reaches auction again](https://zarowsky.net/earlier-work-reaches-auction-again/) - got an email from a friend in the bahamas, with a heads up about 4 of my earlier works being up for auction at Waddingtons' in the city here....people from out of town are more tuned in to the goings on, or ought i say nongoings on not going on around the city, except in - [over the moon](https://zarowsky.net/over-the-moon/) - Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 9:00 PM To: micheal@zarowsky.net Subject: 证书加拿大 Thank you, Exhibition Certificate for you, You're welcome. Over the moon Always thought ‘Over the moon’ as a desirable place to visit; not live there but visit, as living there would make it everyday normal and ... Am blessed in - [early watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/early-watercolours/) - offshore yacht services on harbour road in Bermuda, of a gal repainting the name on her yacht while it is being made seaworthy. if interested message us, not quite a ship in a bottle, it couriers easily overnight in a sturdy tube. moon over bermuda 26" x 40" watercolour on arches paper - [simplified colours](https://zarowsky.net/simplified-colours/) - stylized continuity / 3 simplified down works from georgian bay / simplified down does not mean simple; island on the muskoka river / mathiasville 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel new morning go home lake georgian bay 12" x 12" watercolour / - [another winter of beginnings](https://zarowsky.net/another-winter-of-beginnings/) - The winter this year so far really does not differ from other years. It started late. Started and stopped over and over again. We get an overnight snowfall, really just a inch, 2 at the most, dusting of - [catching the light](https://zarowsky.net/catching-the-light/) - the idea of being able to walk up / walk into to pure light situation just ahead of you is one that remains fresh each time you gaze on it. Coming upon that deeper in the forest, like a moth to a flame, is enough to stop you dead in your snowshoes; it becomes a - [the writings' on the wall](https://zarowsky.net/the-writings-on-the-wall/) - it is not, is nowhere near, the same as working out the aged decaying walls / the historicity of Venice, looking at possibility of a new series, we call "the writings' on the wall" 24 x 36" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [snowfall around the city](https://zarowsky.net/snowfall-around-the-city/) - wandering thru a winter of beginnings; snow melt snow melt snow rain melt / winter having a time of it not so much getting started as staying after it gets here... silent light - [HAPPY NEW YEAR](https://zarowsky.net/h-a-p-p-y-n-e-w-y-e-a-r/) - After surviving a most interestingly different spin around the sun, wishing you and everyone everywhere a healthy, virus free, prosperous, fun filled, free to wander around, did I say fun filled, yep, fun filled, New Year..... - ["2020 Chinese and foreign watercolor painters international online works invitation exhibition."](https://zarowsky.net/2020-chinese-and-foreign-watercolor-painters-international-online-works-invitation-exhibition/) - okay this is a all over the place post; simply because i did not have a way to link to he exhibition site i was posting about. so the original post is down below the added just below this; all in all it goes to / gets you to the exhibition site while explaining everything - [hAPPY hOLIDAYS](https://zarowsky.net/happy-holidays/) - Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings to everyone everywhere... we put together several cards, each expressing its own magic of the season - [happy trails](https://zarowsky.net/happy-trails/) - working thru some trails into forest interiors and at same time, into sunlight bushwacked off / from southwood road / severn bridge / washago area / which, i discovered, over the past couple of years, is a what i call a snow strip, where streamers of snow in off georgian bay, fall in narrow strips - [sunrise](https://zarowsky.net/sunrise/) - Get up north halfway thru the night nap in back till sun leaks some colour back into the world, so it makes sense that at some point the idea of sunrise itself, of the morning light captures and holds our imagination for as long as we choose to explore it and we will explore it - [trails' own category](https://zarowsky.net/trails-own-category/) - had fun setting up a new category, for 'trails thru winter paintings' ideas that were lumped together with winterlight works, which we have start and top start and stop worked out an impressive enough number to warrant them being considered a stand alone idea... daylight stretching across winter 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted - [december additions at ARTA Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/december-additions-at-arta-gallery/) - ARTA Gallery i the Distillery now has a half dozen + 2 new works on display and in their online gallery website. 3 expressive open water works on panel; my water works on panel have, in their own different way, not surpassed those on paper, as the thinking, and way of seeing have both progressed - [overnight snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/overnight-snowfall/) - a teasing overnight dusting of snow night with moonlight going thru it branksome hall dipped icing sugar fenceline 14" x 22 " watercolour on arches paper available / 700.00 unframed / - [C Y B E R M O N D A Y](https://zarowsky.net/c-y-b-e-r-m-o-n-d-a-y/) - C y b e r m o n d a y 35% off everything on the website and our OOAK site (excluding all works in galleries repping us) Contact: micheal@zarowsky.net - [B L A C K F R I D A Y](https://zarowsky.net/b-l-a-c-k-f-r-i-d-a-y/) - Black Friday– something before never part of our world – given the new lockdown measures - all weekend long we are offering 1/3 off on all works here in the studio / on the website; www.zarowsky.net (excluding those currently in galleries repping us) contact us micheal@zarowsky.net / 416.925.8510 we - [black friday week](https://zarowsky.net/black-friday-week/) - BLACK FRIDAY all this week; everything in the studio which is everything posted on our One of a Kind Show pages and more; excluding those works already in galleries repping us. - [big holiday smalls show](https://zarowsky.net/big-holiday-smalls-show/) - i have 4 works in the Big Holiday Smalls Show changed to ONLINE only due to Gov’t lockdown Dec 1, 2020 & run thru to Jan 10, 2021 MichealZarowsky_light within the forest (16)_300.00_acrylic_12x12_2020 Contact: Barb Lewis Membership Services and Administration Artists' Network & Leslie Grove Gallery 1158 Queen St. E Toronto, ON M4M 1L2 - [featured artist at Petroff](https://zarowsky.net/featured-artist-at-petroff/) - lately been putting up new work as it becomes finished no problem. title-ling every post 'new this' or 'new that' is now annoying me and so - [new cityscape](https://zarowsky.net/new-cityscape/) - snow day 16" x 16" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available / 600.00 - [new open stream reflection](https://zarowsky.net/new-open-stream-reflection/) - sunlit stillness silent reflection 16" x 16" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel/ available - ["New morning black river" at N3XT Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/new-morning-black-river-at-n3xt-exhibition/) - Juried in last week / dropped off this morning, my entry, "new morning" (black river washago) at the N3XT show at the Arts & Letters Club / nov 19 to dec 18, 2020. 24" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available contact: arts and letters club, 14 elm street, - [early thoughts of winter](https://zarowsky.net/early-thoughts-of-winter-2/) - Autumn leaves drifting past early thoughts of winter - [new work at Anglin - Smith Gallery Opening tonight](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-anglin-smith-gallery-opening-tonight/) - Wetland reflection & infinity rings included in tonight's’ opening of Anglin-Smith Gallery November 6 - 27, 2020 20 Years of Visiting Artists http://anglinsmith.com/exhibit/?id=140788 autumn on the pond (51) 27” x 18” x 1 ¾” http://anglinsmith.com/artwork/?exhibitID=140788... infinity rings (144) 12” x 20” x 1 ¾” http://anglinsmith.com/artwork/?exhibitID=140788... 9 Queen St., Charleston, SC (843) 853-0708 info@anglinsmith.com - [award at Ontario Society of Artists 147th Exh](https://zarowsky.net/award-at-ontario-society-of-artists-147th-exh/) - Was out last night helping people set up tents for events so it a wonderful surprise to wake up to today. The whole show, the show overall, the overall show, is phenomenal. glad to be a part of it, over the moon with excitement; my entry; moon river morning shoreline 22" x 50" watercolour - [early thoughts of winter](https://zarowsky.net/early-thoughts-of-winter/) - In working the Canadian landscape we have found that it really has nothing to do with how far north one goes, rather with being able to see n feel ‘the wild’ of the very place one is in at any given moment. sun rise 12" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed - [A different autumn](https://zarowsky.net/a-different-autumn/) - autumn on the pond; october ferns (3) 32" x 19" x 1 3/4" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel / available okay. a different take on autumn. fern dance / gala lake 16" x 16" x 1 3/4" watercolour painted direictly on gessoed - [taking part in the winter One Of A Kind](https://zarowsky.net/taking-part-in-the-winter-one-of-a-kind/) - Hello, This years’ one of a kind is online. We have a set up a virtual shop / page within we invite you to visit and check out our assortment of what Wendy and I call Christmas / Holiday sized paintings as well as some eye stretching visually new larger works…… https://oneofakind.balluun.com/en-us/company/ea07804aa280ddeb6665b0f64ab08d34/micheal-zarowsky?source=brand View Online - [new Zarowsky online store now open](https://zarowsky.net/new-zarowsky-online-store-now-open/) - this website, for now at least, is not set up for sales. it does have all the available work at any given moment. Clever people have cut n pasted images into emails and asked for more info about them.....and we all worked it out from there…fun times were shared in the process…sometimes this has led - [open streams: paint running twice on the same panel](https://zarowsky.net/open-streams-2/) - no painting is safe, so to speak as long as it is here in the studio; regardless of how long after it has been finished, given another looksee we find that we can see changes we want to make / that were not possible until after the work was done. we call it Bonnarding. Bonnard - [2 works in the Colour and Form Society Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/2-works-in-the-colour-and-form-society-exhibition/) - Received a good news email notification from Lesia of the Colour and Form Society Congratulations Michael Zarowsky, Both of your submissions have been chosen for the Colour and Form Society’s 68th Annual Open Juried Exhibition. ACCEPT 7084.402545.1587253 New Snowfall For A New Pine 5 ACCEPT 7084.402545.1586679 New Snowfall For A New Pine 4 This year - [My "Moon River Shoreline' watercolour in OSA Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/my-moon-river-shoreline-watercolour-in-osa-juried-exhibition/) - . You know, nomatter how many juried exhibitions I enter into, and I assume most other artists feel the same way, each time I get a notification that my painting has been accepted into the latest one I submitted work to –( it is ‘work’ when you submit, becomes a ‘painting’ when you get accepted - [The luxury of possibilities; alive and overwhelmed](https://zarowsky.net/the-luxury-of-possibilities-alive-and-overwhelmed/) - seeing life in everything is seeing the magic of it all Walking thru winter I feel the aliveness of it all and it can easily overwhelm me; I am in awe. As I look around everything is exactly where it needs be; everything is interacting with everything else. Where I am going with this is - [abstract magnolia flows.](https://zarowsky.net/abstract-magnolia-flows/) - "I'm late although I've nowhere to go said spring" to september visual patterns; abstract magnolia flows. a new ongoing series magnolia 29 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel magnolia 30 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly - [catching up with spring in autumn's change room](https://zarowsky.net/catching-up-with-spring-in-autumns-change-room/) - did a ton of prep work this spring working out new ideas for / of / about magnolias then got distracted and moved onto something else. pleasant circumstances brought them into the forefront again, and i got - [early summer is irises](https://zarowsky.net/early-summer-is-irises/) - Wild irises saugeen river 26" x 34" watercolour on arches paper Ed Reliuga Dumbstruck. I am wholly flabbergasted and in awe. I love this painting, Michael. It's magic -- the magic of a lazy, Summer day. Again.....at the risk of repeating myself (once again).....beautiful. Micheal Zarowsky thanks Ed, - [colours drifting towards autumn](https://zarowsky.net/colours-drifting-towards-autumn/) - ......shoreline plants crowding the water's edge...... one friend wrote ..... sparse yet rich and thoughtful. another from bermuda said, "reminds me of birds searching for lunch... - [infinity rings watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-watercolours/) - Water patterns as Chances to get carried away Some ideas once done, after they are done raise / open up new and different possibilities which would make the painting different enough that each can stand on its own without the other, and yet now this - [possibilities](https://zarowsky.net/possibilities/) - Air was filled with possibilities universe was filled with possibilities infinity rings (165) 24" x 48" acrylic / watercolour painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [universe paralleled in a blue sky day pond](https://zarowsky.net/universe-paralleled-in-a-blue-sky-day-pond/) - Slow drift: infinity rings (164) 24" x 48" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available / micheal@zarowsky.net . - [continuing with new infinity rings works](https://zarowsky.net/continuing-with-new-infinity-rings-works/) - the idea of infinity itself separating and moving across the water infinity rings 163 30" x 41" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [Water patterns as Chances to get carried away](https://zarowsky.net/water-patterns-as-chances-to-get-carried-away/) - the idea of infinity itself separating and moving across the water infinity rings (162) 24.5" x 42.5" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [goings on in July](https://zarowsky.net/10496-2/) - with most events which we support and which support us and our work having been cancelled, or moved online as replacement venues, we, as well as putting in work into those online platforms, we continue to Open our Studio, to offer an Open Studio Sale on all the work here in the studio with individualized - [lido bikes series](https://zarowsky.net/lido-bikes-series/) - any series (what I like about it) is all about / opens up possibilities / re-seeing the idea in news ways / making stuff up again and again and - [3 june events showing new work](https://zarowsky.net/3-june-events-showing-new-work/) - now that the world has decided to open up involved in 3 new events in June showing dozen new pieces in the Earth Art Exhibition at ARTA Gallery in the Distillery June 13th, - July 5th, 2020 4 lilies at sundown 18" x 26" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [moments when things are okay with the world](https://zarowsky.net/moments-when-things-are-okay-with-the-world/) - got a wonderful response this morning to a couple of our works that have left home.... Good morning to you and Wendy both, I've been meaning to write to you for a few days now. I would like to let you know how absolutely delighted I am (Lily too) with the paintings. Choco Days of - [riverdale artwalk re-opens today as online event](https://zarowsky.net/riverdale-artwalk-re-opens-today-as-online-event/) - Riverdale Artwalk which was to be this weekend, was cancelled same time the world shut down, and OPENS today as an online event where each artist has their own storefront page https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=8761 https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=8761 - [new work at Art Gala Gallery in Richmond Hill](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-art-gala-gallery-in-richmond-hill/) - new work at ART GALA GALLERY / Richmond Hill, ON https://www.artgala.ca/collections/michael-zarowsky link to Art Gala Gallery: https://www.artgala.ca/collections/michael-zarowsky 3 of which are: cove, killarney 30" x 22" watercolour on arches paper lilies and pine bough reflection (3) 22" x 30" watercolour on arches paper - [continued interest in winter all year long](https://zarowsky.net/interest-in-winter-all-year-long/) - given the continued all year long interest in our winter light paintings; with a Cool indifference to the actual seasons..... posting a few from the 'overnight snowfall' series... overnight-snowfall (54)- 48" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [summer light, georgian bay](https://zarowsky.net/10428-2/) - Actually now that the isolationist stay at home nightmare is being slowly rescinded find a layer of stress that had gone unnoticed lifting off….revealing molten layers of utter boredom underneath waiting their turn to erupt - [early works](https://zarowsky.net/early-works/) - some days the world comes calling.... got a phone call from a gal i had never met, got re-acquainted with a work from 1982 that i 'recognize', a different time, different style different way of seeing and thinking and yet not january morning / watercolour on arches paper.. hopefully was able to offer some practical - [northern lake series](https://zarowsky.net/northern-lake-series/) - late october foggy morning - [New work in Leslie Grove Gallery online Exhibition and Sale](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-in-leslie-grove-gallery-online-exhibition-and-sale/) - starting April 16 have 3 new works in Leslie Grove Gallery online Exhibition and Sale Mother’s Day Sale – www.lesliegovegallerystore.ca - Riverdale Artwalk / Leslie Grove Gallery Toronto http://www.lesliegrovegallerystore.ca/collections/140215 have three works in this exhibit / contact the gallery to purchase any of these. lido bikes 168 16" - [online sale thru end of May](https://zarowsky.net/online-sale-thru-end-of-may/) - online sale thru end of May, a 30% discount including delivery for most works in our studio - [adjusting, always adjusting](https://zarowsky.net/adjusting-always-adjusting/) - Make up each day as we go along – constant change is an integral part of our lives.... ......adjusting to the new normal..... so while 'self isolate', in so far we work alone daily in our studio, is a normal part of our everyday, - [Pushing the light](https://zarowsky.net/pushing-the-light/) - we continue to take the winter light ideas further and further, snowshoeing / bushwacking / breaking trails deeper and deeper in the forest looking for light filtering through to the ground New morning 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [a different approach focusing on online sales](https://zarowsky.net/a-different-approach-focusing-on-online-sales/) - We have been exhibiting with Petroff Gallery, 1016 Eglinton Ave West, for nearly a decade, Address: 1016 Eglinton Ave W, Toronto, ON M6C 2C5. Phone: (416) 782-1696 info@petroffgallery.com Jackie, who owns the gallery, given the current situation we all find ourselves in, approached all her artists about allowing the gallery to offer - [In light of the current environment......](https://zarowsky.net/in-light-of-the-current-environment/) - In light of the current environment / we look to continue to provide same convenient service; if you are looking for one of our paintings for yourself or need a gift for others, www.zarowsky.net Wendy and I are happy to offer inducements regarding price as well as free shipping on all purchases in Canada - [screens / a northern lake](https://zarowsky.net/screens-a-northern-lake/) - Because ideas develop over time / a not so cut n dried continuity / neither we nor ideas develop evenly / as evident in the amount of interest / time spent on certain ideas while others are being ignored at the same time. Some ideas have more in them than a single painting / there - [open cedar stream](https://zarowsky.net/10306-2/) - was out bushwacking, first with just boots thru the foot n half deep powder snow at bruces mill, then snowshoeing all thru the -15c sunshine at walkers woods on saturday and then scooted up to georgian bay to12 mile bay road on sunday morning and walked thru -16c sunshine and snow sparkling like diamonds and - [catching up to fall](https://zarowsky.net/catching-up-to-fall/) - working out some new fall ideas which as always require new ways of thinking about them and about how to express them in paint. the fog softening northern lake is south of gosling lake just a few miles south of 35 / 60 junction. northern lake 24" x 36.5" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on - [backyards and laneways](https://zarowsky.net/backyards-and-laneways-2/) - when we were growing up we used to shortcut thru neighbours backyards to get to friends & the mothers all kept an eye out for / on all of us, nobody had any worries. to day the moms are all working, the backyards which were open are now walled off with 6 to 8 foot - [Laneways / backyards in winter](https://zarowsky.net/laneways-backyards-in-winter/) - taking part at Petroff Gallery Small Works Exhibition: Feb 1 - 29, 2020. " Bad girls laneway " 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available at studio for now - [new year refocus](https://zarowsky.net/new-year-refocus/) - so far this year, have been working laneways / open backyards which have as yet to put up high fences and looking to workout detailed fall pieces out of remembered experiences from less than a a little over a month ago. alley to bathurst street 18" x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on - [Interiors](https://zarowsky.net/interiors/) - Cafe interior with wicker, paris, 22" x 15" / more of a sketch than anything, watercolour on arches paper / available at studio what’s the size ....??? Micheal Zarowsky that's so neat, thanks Gunilla, `unframed it is 17" x 12" or 42.5 cm x 30 cm Gunilla Holmgren 42.5 x 30 what is the price.... - [infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-4/) - working out a new series of infinity rings in other words, making stuff up again …and again .. and.... infinity spreading out of the ordinary past moments possibilities that could have been different infinity rings 161 26" x 40" watercolour on arches paper Infinity spreading without a backward glance - [winter open streams](https://zarowsky.net/winter-open-streams/) - Micheal Zarowsky Fresh water tales in a place for no words - stream running out of devils lake 24" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available . Ed Reliuga in awe. Micheal Zarowsky thanks Ed, tried to express / capture some aspect of the essence of an - 30 - [new directions for winter trails](https://zarowsky.net/new-directions-for-winter-trails/) - trail down to the lake 24" x 30" watercolour / acrylic - [small winter works for the holidays](https://zarowsky.net/small-winter-works-for-the-holidays/) - All December long, we are reaching out to everyone interested in our new small works for the holidays, both at the studio and online thru the website and social medium platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Message us your online choices which can be purchased and shipped or personally delivered within a reasonable radius in and - [holiday studio sale of new work](https://zarowsky.net/holiday-studio-sale-of-new-work/) - for everyone interested in picking up a small to medium painting for the Holidays, we are opening our studio up for interested people to come by - - [last day of OOAK coming up](https://zarowsky.net/last-day-of-ooak-coming-up/) - showing one of our paris works that we had kept for ourselves up till now, now that we have virtually run out of available lido bikes paintings morning, le marais, paris 22`` x 36`` watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel .... things are only ordinary because we choose to see them that way; I - [Zarowsky at One Of A Kind Winter Show](https://zarowsky.net/10063-2/) - Come by and see our new work at THE ONE OF A KIND WINTER SHOW in BOOTH K - 8 November 21 - Dec 1, 2019 show hours: weekdays 10 am to 9 pm saturday 10 am to 9 pm sunday 10 am to 6 pm special late night shopping: thursday Nov 28, 10 am - [early snowfall seasonal crossover](https://zarowsky.net/early-snowfall-seasonal-crossover/) - early snowfall sunlit clearing, black river / coopers falls 40" x 46" watercolour painted directly on gessoed foam board Beautiful. Micheal Zarowsky thanks Ed, in the winter, sunny days only seem to come when temps approach -40 which, because both fahrenheit n celsius meet there, is where hell freezes over.... - [juried into 67th Colour & Form Society Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/juried-into-67th-colour-form-society-exhibition/) - 2 entries juried into Oct 29 – Nov 27 Colour & Form Society 67th Open Juried Exhibition Etobicoke Civic Centre Gallery, Toronto autumn on the pond 51 27" x 17" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel red arch, canal venice 30" x - [new moon exhibition at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-moon-exhibition-at-arta-gallery/) - have several; new works including.... . . - [october rains](https://zarowsky.net/october-rains/) - was looking to re post the earlier painting which had had its top cut off, but found this one en route to it....good thing i do not have attention deficit disorder...phew! Infinity rings 105 48" x 31" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel . Ed Reliuga It's almost too much to digest. But don't - [Zarowsky Fall paintings at Arta Gallery Oct 9 - 20](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-fall-paintings-at-arta-gallery-oct-9-20/) - Zarowsky at Arta Gallery "we love fall exhibition" 14 distillery lane, toronto oct 9 - 20, 2019 autumn on the pond 30" x 60" watercolour /acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / autumn having taken a bite out of fall / available 30" x 30" watercolour /acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / autumn having - [mirrored silence / venice](https://zarowsky.net/mirrored-silence-venice/) - as our barca slowly moved to a rest here we were listening for a pin to drop Mirrored silence rio fuseri, venice, 22" x 16" watercolour on arches paper / available at studio . . . . . . . . . . . . #artworkoftheday #contemporaryfineart #studioscenes #artfinder #abstractartwork #michealzarowskyart #empoweringcreativescollective #originalpainting #watercolourartist #torontoart - [a different chaos with 3 new bikes](https://zarowsky.net/a-different-chaos-with-3-new-bikes/) - 3 new lido bike paintings with a crispness / clarity to the chaos quite different from the lido bikepaintings that have come before.... lido bikes 168 16x16 watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel lido bikes 169 16x16 watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel lido bikes - [a different chaos with the new bikes](https://zarowsky.net/a-different-chaos-with-the-new-bikes/) - dropped of 3 new bikes with Joan at Dragonfly Arts on Broadway in Orangeville today / working out a different kind of chaos with these now than those before.... lido bikes 171 16x16 watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel - [Zarowsky Opening at Gallery on the Lake this Saturday](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-opening-at-gallery-on-the-lake-this-saturday/) - be nice to see everyone 'wander over' to new wanderings..... exhibition of new Zarowsky watercolours painted on paper and new Zarowsky watercolours / acrylics painted directly on gesoed panels opening Reception; Saturday September 28th, 2019 1:00 to 4:00 pm At Gallery on The Lake Buckhorn, Ontario exhibition runs Sept 28th to Nov 4th, info@galleryonthelake.com 1.705.657.1108 - [Zarowsky Exhibition at Gallery On The Lake](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-exhibition-at-gallery-on-the-lake-2/) - new wanderings..... exhibition of new Zarowsky watercolours painted on paper and new Zarowsky watercolours / acrylics painted directly on gesoed panels opening Reception; Saturday September 28th, 2019 1:00 to 4:00 pm At Gallery on The Lake Buckhorn, Ontario exhibition runs Sept 28th to Nov 4th, info@galleryonthelake.com 1.705.657.1108 / toll free: 1.888.242.7475 www.galleryonthelake.com www.zarowsky.net - [petroff works on paper show](https://zarowsky.net/petroff-works-on-paper-show/) - part of the Petroff Gallery works on paper show september 3 - October 3 1016 Eglinton Ave W, Toronto ON M6C 2C5 416-782-1696 muskoka cottage 14" x 26" watercolour on arches paper available - [ideas from winter wanderings](https://zarowsky.net/ideas-from-winter-wanderings/) - light going into the forest; patches / standing in shadow looking towards pockets of light deep inside the forest, solitude silence infinite spaces spiritual moments just being / small studies of our day to day wanderings across a winter big enough for tigers morning was curved upwards ever so slightly at the corners 12" x - [end of summer show](https://zarowsky.net/end-of-summer-show/) - dropped off 7 new bikes paintings at Arta Gallery in the Distillery for their End of Summer Show; lido bikes 167 (jarvis and king area) - [small georgian bay works](https://zarowsky.net/small-georgian-bay-works/) - september wall of smalls or something like that show coming up at Butter Gallery in Collingwood. so we ave worked out near dozen ideas from georgian bay towards our participation in it, including these 2 posted below. catching the sun (4) georgian bay 12" x 12" watercolour - [deep reflections](https://zarowsky.net/deep-reflections/) - beaver ponds have a definite life span; the beavers move in build dams, chew chew chew then way thru the area move on.... which in a way is good as it does not take all that long to exhaust the visual possibilities of a small pond, and we do not want - [forest interiors](https://zarowsky.net/forest-interiors/) - the outside world vanishes while painting the outside world / focus to lose myself in what i am focusing on / a new series of forest interiors / light within the forest as a place to seek out / solitude silence infinite spaces - [part of 2 different society exhibitions this week](https://zarowsky.net/part-of-2-different-society-exhibitions-this-week/) - Micheal Zarowsky / as a elected member, have 2 works being shown at Society of Canadian Artists 51st International Open Juried Exhibition. July 29th - August 26th, 2019 happy to announce that the 51st International Open Juried Exhibition is fast approaching. Please mark the Opening Reception and Award Ceremony on your calendar: Thursday, August 1, - [wow! that's electric](https://zarowsky.net/wow-thats-electric/) - Micheal Zarowsky Watercolours / Acrylics Micheal Zarowsky emphasis on 'visually unavoidable' you can't just ignore such a boat floating in front of you.... July 25 at 7:24 PM ·yellow dory blue rocks n.s. 12" x 8" watercolour on arches paper ... Penny Banks-Foster + Yesterday at 7:33 AM · Bill Gayner July 25 at 9:28 PM · 5You, John Purchase, Kate - [open streams](https://zarowsky.net/open-streams/) - ...stream roaringly energizing out of devil's lake ....... "splash and spill distractions in backwaters of eternity" 32" x 48" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel You have managed to capture the visual and the emotions here. AND, I can hear the water, the breeze....rustling through the brush…. Everything is so alive....moving. An image 'not' - [Day one at T O A F 2019](https://zarowsky.net/day-one-at-t-o-a-f-2019/) - morning scene, setting up the morning while waking up 58th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair July 12 – 14, 2019 Booth 246 Zone C (at the north east corner of the pond) Friday, July 12, 2019 – 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM Saturday, July 13, 2019 – 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM Sunday, July 14, - [Zarowsky at Toronto Outdoor Art Fair](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-toronto-outdoor-art-fair/) - Zarowsky at 58th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair July 12 - 14, 2019 Booth 246 Zone C (at the north east corner of the pond) Friday, July 12, 2019 - 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM Sunday, July 14, 2019 - 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM - [latest infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/latest-infinity-rings/) - simple drawings on the universe; offering up water thru single moments, patterns, interactions; water is affected by everything both visually and physically; being transparent, to paint it you are painting the sky above, the bottom below reflecting up especally where a cloud blocks the sun, the shorelines on either side trying to contain it; in - [birches - 12 mile bay road, georgian bay](https://zarowsky.net/birches-12-mile-bay-road-georgian-bay/) - light chasing shadows, me chasing the light enjoyed losing myself over what seems a good part of our winter snow shoeing thru, making my own trails thru new snowfalls, all the while sketching the light to be found off the 12 mile bay road area of georgian bay / late march back on a skidoo - [sunday at riverdale artwalk](https://zarowsky.net/sunday-at-riverdale-artwalk/) - at Riverdale Artwalk / come see us on Sunday / Booth C-13 / same booth we had on Saturday / 11 am to 6 pm set up waywa yway tooo early / too early to even type right - [riverdale artwalk 2019](https://zarowsky.net/riverdale-artwalk-2019/) - Saturday / Sunday June 1 and 2 , 2019, 11 am to 6 pm Come visit us in Booth C-13 at the 20th Riverdale Artwalk, Jimmie Simpson park, 870 Queen Street E., east of Broadview… - [2019 OSA Member's Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/2019-osa-members-exhibition/) - Part of the OSA 2019 Members Exhibition of Selected Works May 30th - June 15, 2019 Opening reception: May 30th 6 - 8 pm Withrow Common Gallery 200 Princes Blvd., CNE Toronto Hours: Thursday 6 - 9 Friday 1 - 9 pm Sat / Sun 10am - 6 pm overnight snowfall / 75" x 28" - [sunlight and georgian bay](https://zarowsky.net/sunlight-and-georgian-bay/) - 3 new small works from georgian bay outer islands g bay 12" x12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel catching the sun georgian bay (2) 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel catching the sun georgian bay 12" x - [new directions for riverside screen series](https://zarowsky.net/new-directions-for-riverside-screen-series/) - new explorations / directions for the the riverside screen series pine and birch atmosphere series 2 18" x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel lakeside birches october and atmosphere 17.5" x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel riverside screen 17 muskoka river 16" x - [New Work at Butter Gallery & Mad & Noisy Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-butter-gallery-mad-noisy-gallery/) - Delivered new works to Andrea at the Butter Gallery on Hurontario St., in Collingwood and their sister gallery in the historic part of Creemore, The Mad & Noisy Gallery some of which are studies from Georgian Bay Day full of blue skies and a lot else. islands georgian bay 12" x 12" watercolour / - [infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-3/) - infinity rings 149 24" x 48" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel Frank Horenkamp What's this I see Michael? Spring is in the air? LOL Micheal Zarowsky snow in bracebridge, (or should i call it bravebridge), overnight but yes the scilla are out, I have put the snowshoes away for now.... - [past present n future all in one day](https://zarowsky.net/past-present-n-future-all-in-one-day/) - thinking back on it, yesterday was a day where OSA, past present and future all came together. at 10 am I picked up my work from the 146th OSA juried exhibition, along with the award, 1:30 pm saw me at the opening reception of the bi-annual new members exhibition where I had a piece on - [OSA NEW MEMBERS SHOW](https://zarowsky.net/osa-new-members-show/) - included in the OSA New Member 2018 - 2019 Biennial Exhibition 56 Neilson Drive, Toronto April 23rd to May 12th, 2019 Clare and I talking at the OSA New Members Exhibition at Neilson Park on Saturday.... ( there were people to the left of me, people - [straddling between abstraction n realism](https://zarowsky.net/9776-2/) - 27" x 18" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel Micheal Zarowsky thanks Jean, back to working reflections where the shoreline world and water world meet; Jean Clarke Lovely. Perhaps....but you're the one with dancing shoes! Micheal Zarowsky i'z needs dancing shoes cause no maps to explain how i got here. autumn on - [Paris burning](https://zarowsky.net/paris-burning/) - just acknowledging the effect paris had on us and we had on it one of our paintings of Notre Dame from 2000; we would spend all of december in paris and used Notre Dame as a place to go into n get warm and would have a bite of takeaway while listening to the choir - [commonality between strangers](https://zarowsky.net/commonality-between-strangers/) - a friend just clued us into the coincidental fact that our work shares a lot in common with Gordon Smith's work ….or..... Gordon Smith's work shares a lot with ours..... we are interested in the beauty of chaos 1.autumn undulating across a surface of reflecting colours 48" x 32" watercolour / acrylic on gessoed panel - [winter yards](https://zarowsky.net/9756-2/) - strong colours pure white sheet of snow backyards day red house neighbour 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel available - [backyards and laneways.](https://zarowsky.net/backyards-and-laneways/) - in the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts there are few My fav painting experience is being totally overwhelmed by what I take on and slowly oh so slowly coming to understand it another of the ones that did not get picked up at the kingsway show. red house with icy drive - [kingsway - lambton fundraiser, saturday april 6th, 2019](https://zarowsky.net/kingsway-lambton-fundraiser-saturday-april-6th-2019/) - join me and a host of others at the kingsway lambton 22nd fundraiser Saturday April 6th, 2019 - 10 am to 4 pm 85 the kingsway, toronto - [146th OSA Open Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/146th-osa-open-juried-exhibition/) - The Ontario Society of Artists, (OSA) 146th Open Juried Exhibition at the Aird Gallery, 900 Bay at Wellesley, Toronto, March 25th thru April 26th, 2019 am grateful the judges saw fit to bestow my entry with an award; sorry was unable to be there; one of our clients and friends who managed to get there - [New work at Petroff Gallery Group Landscape Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-petroff-gallery-group-landscape-exhibition/) - one of 8 new pieces delivering to Petroff Gallery for their April group landscape show.....tomorrow, when they open....today they are closed..... island, georgian bay 17" x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [146th OSA Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/146th-osa-juried-exhibition/) - Got really wonderful informative news today from Claire Ross, the OSA President. The 146th OSA Open Juried Exhibition, which runs from March 27th to April 26th at the John B. Aird Gallery, is an important exhibition because of how it happens and because of who it showcases. For 146 years now, each year a small group - [late day sunlight](https://zarowsky.net/late-day-sunlight/) - as the sun goes down n drains the world of colour..... new works sunlight streaming down the shadow side of winter 2 18" x 21" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel late day trails wandering off 12 mile bay road georgian bay late day sun - ['Autumn on the pond' juried into 146 OSA Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-on-the-pond-juried-into-146-osa-exhibition/) - Good news about being juried into an exhibition coming up later this year OSA Open Juried Exhibition 2019 Dear Micheal, Congratulations! Your artwork, Title: Autumn on the pond 1, has been selected for inclusion in the OSA's 146th Open Juried Exhibition 2019. There was a tremendous response to this call (0ver 500 entries) with a - ['Open Cedar Stream' painting in SCA Online Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/open-cedar-stream-painting-in-sca-online-exhibition/) - got a really cool friday surprise; SCA sent along an acceptance email including my entry into the Online Exhibition coming up. Dear Michael, it is with great pleasure that I inform you that your artwork “Open Cedar Stream” has been accepted to be part of our 2019 International Open ONLINE Exhibition. Congratulations! You may view - [Red house painting on Artbombdaily.com auction](https://zarowsky.net/red-house-painting-on-artbombdaily-com-auction/) - Laneways – all over the city everywhere, pure places one can walk down / be alone in a overly busy hustling n bustling city / lose oneself in the quiet and in walking along can find things worthy of considering as subject matter for a painting the same and yet not the same backyards off - [open water and sunshine](https://zarowsky.net/open-water-and-sunshine/) - morning light, open dam on snowcovered icy black river, washago 24" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel open stream morning after a snowfall washago 24" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel new day, washago 24" - [winter trail painting up for bids on Artbomb](https://zarowsky.net/winter-trail-painting-up-for-bids-on-artbomb-2/) - trail thru winter, off 12 mile bay rd / georgian bay Michael Zarowsky (2018) acrylic on wood panel 16in × 16in × 2in — 0lb http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/5906 - [t wrecks](https://zarowsky.net/t-wrecks/) - A friend of a friend wrote Snowplows were not allowed on dinosaurs, they tried it, but there were too many tyrannosaurus wrecks.” ed reliuga Amazing. You really don't sleep....at all. I mean to say that I am struck by the realization of the depth and breadth of your work. I can understand the concept - [irondale river open in winter](https://zarowsky.net/irondale-river-open-in-winter/) - Micheal Zarowsky thanks Ed, stretch near gooderham it is; love the idea of fallen trees serving as bridges across the stream for all manner of critters wanting to get across the to the other side...(except for chickens....don't see many chickens using these fallen tree bridges Ed Reliuga I'm immediately struck by the water......another beautiful departure - [almost 'miniatures' show](https://zarowsky.net/almost-miniatures-show/) - delivered 5 new pieces to Jelena at the Petroff Gallery for their upcoming miniatures show; Janet Bloomer Roberson ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 1 Micheal Zarowsky thank you Janet, working up a few for a mini show at Petroff Gallery. · Janet Bloomer Roberson Micheal Zarowsky Gorgeous work😍 · Glenn Foster My new favorite! Micheal Zarowsky thank - [open winter stream](https://zarowsky.net/open-winter-stream-2/) - open winter stream undisturbed reflections (with birch bark floating) in the middle of nowhere 13.25" x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / available - [open streams in winter](https://zarowsky.net/open-streams-in-winter-2/) - not often i find streams open in the middle of winter, especially in - 24 degree temps, what's even more surprising was while walking thru 3 inches of ground cover, stepping and sinking knee deep into a sinkhole in the blink of an eye, and after a bit of a struggle to get out - [laneways](https://zarowsky.net/laneways/) - Laneways – all over the city everywhere, pure places one can walk down / be alone in a overly busy hustling n bustling city / lose oneself in the quiet and in walking along can find things worthy of considering as subject matter for a painting new laneway available; red house / spadina and dundas - [new day](https://zarowsky.net/new-day-2/) - new day washago available. 24" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel Birte Hella Simply lovely especially in the amazing detail. Micheal Zarowsky thanks Birte, the devil's in the details, you know.... Ed Reliuga HOLY S*** ! I'm officially knocked off of my chair......bowled over, if you will. Stunned. Amazing.....truly amazing work. - [Blue Pig Watercolour in Artist Network Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/blue-pig-watercolour-in-artist-network-exhibition/) - dropped off my entry "blue pig" (watercolour on arches paper) for the Artist Network's "Year of the Pig" Exhibition at 638 Queen St., East, Toronto / inside the Dark Horse Cafe January 29th, February 17th, 2019 Opening Reception February 7th, - [open winter stream](https://zarowsky.net/open-winter-stream/) - two new watercolours on gessoed panel now available snow melting on the surface of the pond open winter stream irondale river (1) 12" x 12" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel Ed Reliuga I mentioned that you had made a "departure", of sorts in style in regard to another painting you had posted. Now, it's - [winterlight](https://zarowsky.net/winterlight/) - ......sunlight across an open space.... 12 mile bay road, georgian bay trail thru winter 70 24" x 44" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [trail thru winter on Artbombdaily.com](https://zarowsky.net/trail-thru-winter-on-artbombdaily-com-2/) - trail thru winter up for bids on Artbombdaily.com http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/5906 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [ice on the pond](https://zarowsky.net/ice-on-the-pond/) - winter fragments patterns of silence & daylight ice forming on the pond 26" x 18" watercolour on arches paper Ed Reliuga Oh my! A subtle but significant departure. So appealing. Beautiful. Micheal Zarowsky Watercolours / Acrylics later in the day, sun slipped below the treeline taking all the colour with it - (pond S of - [open stream in January](https://zarowsky.net/open-stream-in-january/) - Our opinion belief understanding is that the way to counter the emptiness of mass media is by painting living lived experiences; our posts become relevant reaching one person at a time; a kind of ‘fighting in the trenches’ type of engagements; daylight spills down riverbanks into pure black surfaces oxtongue river shoreline 24" x 35" - [HAPPY NEW YEAR](https://zarowsky.net/happy-new-year-3/) - HAPPY NEW YEAR Wishing everyone a Healthy, Happy, Creative, Prosperous, and Funfilled 2019 - [HAPPY HOLIDAYS / SEASONS GREETINGS](https://zarowsky.net/happy-holidays-seasons-greetings/) - [my 'RAIN' painting in Mexican Biennial](https://zarowsky.net/9506-2/) - 3 Got an email from Anita Cotter, concerning my watercolour "(the beginning of) RAIN" in the Mexican Biennial Show Dear CSPWC Members who are in the Mexico Biennial show, please see the message from the Gallery and they have shared some photos of the show. Thought you might like to see them. Best Regards, Anita - [New work at Butter Gallery and at Mad & Noisey Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-butter-gallery-and-at-mad-noisey-gallery/) - new work at Butter Gallery in Collingwood and Mad and Noisy Gallery in Creemore http://buttergallery.ca/artist-works.php?artistId=337652&artist=Michael+Micheal Zarowsky - [Now Showing with Mad & Noisy Gallery & Butter Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/now-showing-with-mad-noisy-gallery-butter-gallery/) - A happy trails day: Delivered a batch of new works to Andrea at the Mad & Noisy Gallery at 154 Mill Street, Creemore and then scooted a tad further north where I left an almost equal number with Suzanne at the Butter Gallery, 126 Hurontario St., in Collingwood. then spent the rest of the sunny - [trail thru winter on artbombdaily.com](https://zarowsky.net/trail-thru-winter-on-artbombdaily-com/) - trail thru winter (53) on Artbombdaily.com http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/5906 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gesseod panel - [riverside birches on artbomb daily auction](https://zarowsky.net/riverside-birches-on-artbomb-daily-auction/) - 'riverside birches' up for bids on Artbombdaily.com all day today. watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/5706 - [open studio thru december](https://zarowsky.net/open-studio-thru-december/) - Micheal Zarowsky open studio . holiday exhibition / sale Sun Dec 2 thru Sun Dec 23rd, 2018 11 Elm Avenue, Toronto On call ahead 416.925.8510 or email: micheal@zarowsky.net to confirm studio open on that day website: www.zarowsky.net - [trail thru pines](https://zarowsky.net/trail-thru-pines/) - sunlight and shadows playing in a fairy tale winter trail thru pines 10 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel Robert Montgomery a pleasing and appropriate painterly quality Micheal Zarowsky thanks Robert. Ed Reliuga I've been doing some chain-sawing in the woods. I was quite pre-occupied with other things in the - [new day](https://zarowsky.net/new-day/) - ....new available work for the holidays.... fingers of light creeping up the hillside new morning 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel Comments Charlene Surmanski I really like your new entry in to deep turquoises and sienna type colours .. along with your traditional colours . a little change up adds - [sunlight as an attitude](https://zarowsky.net/sunlight-as-an-attitude/) - watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [new work at Petroff Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-petroff-gallery/) - new work at the Petroff Gallery 1016 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto trail thru winter 46 - 24" x 28.5" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel late day trail thru winter - 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [small winter paintings for the holidays](https://zarowsky.net/small-winter-paintings-for-the-holidays/) - another of the small - yet powerful and not needing to be any larger - winter pieces available at the studio ready to be shipped anywhere it would be made to feel at home..... (email us at micheal@zarowsky.net) trail thru winter 49 - 18" x18" watercolouir / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [Xmas Exhibition at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/xmas-exhibition-at-arta-gallery/) - dropped off new winter works this morning to Arta Gallery in the Distillery for their Xmas Exhibition November 17th - December 17th, 2018; 14 Distillery Lane, Toronto - [Eastminster Church arts n Crafts Show this Saturday](https://zarowsky.net/eastminster-church-arts-n-crafts-show-this-saturday/) - comeby and see us at the Toronto East Rotary Arts & Crafts Sale Eastminster United Church Saturday November, 17th, 2018 10 am to 5 pm 310 Danforth, (one block east of chester subway station) of course prior to saturday, these can be scooped up at the studio; - [jurors comments](https://zarowsky.net/jurors-comments/) - comments of juror Jill Price, copied from the latest Colour and Form Newsletter on the 66th Open Juried Exhibition; Jill and fellow jurist, Vera Bobson, found my works worthy of discussion; 3rd Place Winner Micheal Zarowsky AUTUMN ON THE POND (Watercolour). We had some arguments here as we loved both of Zarowsky’s works. In the - [lest we forget](https://zarowsky.net/lest-we-forget/) - [riverside birches screens](https://zarowsky.net/riverside-birches-screens/) - walking shoreline conversations looking at the predictable finding the unpredictable riverside birches screen 18 muskoka river, mathiasville, 16" x 16" acrylic / watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel riverside birches, muskoka river, mathiasville riverside birches 9a 15" x 16.5" acrylic / watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel - [staying up late after going sketching](https://zarowsky.net/staying-up-late-after-going-sketching/) - Went sketching time passed was not wasted in spite of overrated opportunities and wild days that will last forever if only cause we have nothing to compare to oh we can compare sunny day variations, on those days we can almost touch the sunlight as it spreads a bit of joy across the hours while - [inventing a new process](https://zarowsky.net/new-process/) - in painting contemporary winter, in losing myself while painting the infinite ways it expresses itself to us, thru trial and error, in this case becoming aware of a lucky error, i worked out a new process which i call..... Ghosting Process i devised which consists of of reworking the whites that ‘were initially - [autumn on the pond](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-on-the-pond-2/) - November. it rains a lot. the ponds overfill overflow their edges. shorelines disappear and new ones are made for as long as it takes to have the excess rain be absorbed into the groundwater. new shorelines that are chaotic, unmeant to be, moments in time, which is what makes them so interesting in the most - [thoughts on just past sunday](https://zarowsky.net/thoughts-on-just-past-sunday/) - did something this past sunday i rarely do; attended a juried society exhibition, which makes no sense cause i work shows all year long, one after another, and yet maybe that says it all; attending a societal juried event is unlike working a show; attending versus working; and while i work a lot throughout the - [award for 'autumn on the pond' at Colour & Form Society](https://zarowsky.net/award-for-autumn-on-the-pond-at-colour-form-society/) - my painting autumn on the pond - juried into the Colour & Form Society's 66th Annual Exhibition was awarded 3rd prize at the opening earlier today autumn on the pond (18) 43" x 33" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel thank you to jurors Jill Price and Vera Bobson, (who I am told - [Zarowsky at Colour & Form Society 66th Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-colour-form-society-66th-exhibition/) - Zarowsky at Colour & Form Society 66th Open Juried Exhibition November 1 - 29th, 2018 Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery 399 The West Mall, Toronto, ON Opening Reception & Awards Sun Nov 4th 2 - 4 pm - [Zarowsky at Expressions Art Show](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-expressions-art-show/) - Zarowsky at Expressions in Art 30th Anniversary Show & Sale Friday Nov 2nd, 7 - 10 pm Saturday Nov 3rd, 10 am - 5 pm Sunday Nov 4th, 11 am to 3:30 pm St Volodymyr Cultural Centre 1280 Dundas St., W Oakville, ON (at 4th line) - [LAKESIDE BIRCHES up for bids on ARTBOMB](https://zarowsky.net/lakeside-birches-up-for-bids-on-artbomb/) - up for bids today on ARTBOMB DAILY.COM http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/5753 LAKESIDE BIRCHES 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel lakeside birches / a stand of birches at waters edge along Lake Kushog along hwy 35 - [autumn on the pond at OSA Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-on-the-pond-at-osa-exhibition/) - - fortunately spent a couple of days wandering around the october colours - yellows, golds, bronzes not to mention tamaracks needles changing to a deep yellow and around the instant ponds left from the rains; pure moments in time till the ground water recedes and absorbs the excess; slept overnight in the truck tucked in - [Riverside birches up for bids on ARTBOMB](https://zarowsky.net/riverside-birches-up-for-bids-on-artbomb/) - not till eleven tonight...first time I am ever early to post a piece up for bids on artbombdaily.com which will run all day sunday while we are working the final day of the Lawrence park art show http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/5706 riverside birches (muskoka river outside of mathiasville) 16" x 16" watercolour /acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel - [Autumn pond up for bids on ARTBOMB today](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-pond-up-for-bids-on-artbomb-today/) - choices. autumn shoreline n reflection from Margaret Lake is up for bids on ArtbombDaily.com Auction and we'd like to see you tonight and show you our latest works - 7 to 9pm - at the Lawrence Park Art Show, 2180 Bayview Ave., Toronto colours of autumn & eternity scattered along the water’s edge Michael Zarowsky - [New Work at Lawrence Park](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-lawrence-park/) - Micheal Zarowsky (www.zarowsky.net) at Lawrence Park Art Show Fri Oct 12, 7 - 9 pm - Opening night Party Sat Oct 13, noon to 4 pm Sun Oct 14, noon to 3 pm Lawrence Park Community Church 2180 Bayview Avenue, Toronto www.lawrenceparkartshow.ca a new direction for an ongoing series 'lakeside birches" lakeside birches october and - [Zarowsky at Lawrence Park Art Show](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-lawrence-park-art-show/) - You are cordially invited to come by the Lawrence Park Art Show Friday October 12th 7 to 9 pm Saturday October 13th Noon to 4 pm Sunday October 14th, Noon to 3 pm 2180 Bayview Ave (one block south of lawrence) it is forever the 'next' sideroad, or pond, or small lake, just - [autumn on the pond](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-on-the-pond/) - Fragments, not so early leaves reflections for a innocent dawn autumn on the pond (48) 44" x 29" x 1 3/4" watercolour painted directly on gessoed panel - ['Autumn on the pond' in OSA Members Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-on-the-pond-in-osa-members-exhibition/) - my painting "Autumn on the pond" accepted into the Ontario Society of Artists, "Members Exhibition of Selected Works" Papermill Gallery, Toddmorgan Mills,Toronto. Opening Reception is October 18th - 6:30 - 9pm. Exhibition runs from October 3 - 28th, 2018 - [trout pond](https://zarowsky.net/trout-pond/) - My fav painting experience is being overwhelmed by what I take on and slowly coming to understand it primitive water ponds trout pond 48" x 36" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [2nd venice balcony up for bids on Artbomb](https://zarowsky.net/2nd-venice-balcony-up-foro-bids-on-artbomb/) - a second venice watercolour up for bids on Artbomb today Vertical garden series, balcony, accademia, venice, 28" x 21" watercolour on arches paper http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/5664 - [venice balcony on artbomb.daily auction today](https://zarowsky.net/venice-balcony-on-artbomb-daily-auction-today/) - up for bids on Artbomb today vertical garden balcony venice 30" x 22" watercolour on arches paper http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/5663 - [birches and atmopsheres](https://zarowsky.net/birches-and-atmopsheres/) - Birches and atmospheres birches, october colours 24" x 28" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel Micheal Zarowsky thanks Helen, don't often work out birches cause everyone and their brother has done so, but these were more about the atmosphere, so.... Helen-Louise Kinton Well Micheal, you definitely succeeded. The riot of colour - [land meets water; water meets land](https://zarowsky.net/land-meets-water-water-meets-land/) - where land n water meet / 2 worlds offering visually stunning collisions new work from georgian bay long day at the edge of autumn / georgian bay 36" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel windswept, killarney 30" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch - [body of work](https://zarowsky.net/body-of-work/) - our paintings are about many things; a main ongoing exploration, concerns, is focused on, 'light' which looking back, over time, oodles of time, now forms one of the largest indepth collections of original and unique paintings of / on the nature and essence of 'winter' / or light as expressed in / thru winter.... worked - [water's edge](https://zarowsky.net/waters-edge/) - couple of new works available from our favorite waters cove killarney, georgian bay 30" x 22" watercolour on arches paper jazz fragment ripples across an autumn afternoon / georgian bay 13" x 18" watercolour painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-2/) - it may seem we are working ideas all over the map / but in reality it comes down to just 2 simple ideas: light and water the 2 things you cannot paint directly is what captivates us, what we lose ourselves in, what we look for and find many many ways to express; with light, - [new work at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-arta-gallery-2/) - arta gallery in the distillery is showing some of our smaller waterlilies and reflections and colour and chaos bicycles on a sunny day many of which are now from around the city...... - [unframed venice watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/unframed-venice-watercolours/) - 'some matted up watercolours of venice, that will not be at the opening reception at the Twist Gallery Watercolour Exhibition tomorrow evening, but which are available from the studio by by messaging us here on FB or emailing us directly' we rarely frame up watercolours on paper anymore, finding it impossible to anticipate how anyone - [primitive waters](https://zarowsky.net/primitive-waters/) - the backwaters, the primitive waters making up ponds where the odd beaver might have a stick shack, the shallow streams, in some places only inches deep yet reflections that stretch out forever; these are the waters that interest us; okay, occasionally i might find something of interest on a manicured lake, and work it into - [Zarowsky at Watercolour & Modern Landscape Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-watercolour-modern-landscape-exhibition/) - Zarowsky at Watercolour & Modern Landscape Exhibition at Twist Gallery, 1100 Queen Street West, Toronto Sept 5th - 29th, 2018 Opening Reception Sept 6th, 6 - 9 pm - [waterlilies and wild rice](https://zarowsky.net/waterlilies-and-wild-rice/) - new pond abstract available Ed Reliuga I don't know how to "label" this piece. Abstract? Regardless....this is, easily, the most abstract of the pieces of yours that I have seen. Even so, knowing your "infinity rings" and how detailed your work really is - this could just as easily be labeled as being "super-realism". But, - [new winter light watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-light-watercolours/) - There are so many aspects to winter, each time we try to present yet something total new aspect to winter we had never attempted before / lite deep in the forest where you are looking thru shadows to the light is a new one - [overnight snowfall series](https://zarowsky.net/overnight-snowfall-series/) - overnight snowfall is an ongoing series that started, can't really remember when, but one which we add to, as new ideas are worked out...is based on seeing winter all dressed in white the morning after a snowfall before the winds have had a chance to dust off the magic... trail thru winter 47 - [CSPWC / France Watercolour Exchange Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/8887-2/) - my painting in the CSPWC / France watercolour Exchange Exhibition (the second leg of the exhibition is now in Avignon after a showing at the Helson Gallery in Georgetown) daylight dropping colour into the world 20" x 28" watercolour on arches paper the idea, of a fallen pine catching the - [snorkelers and underwater daylight](https://zarowsky.net/snorkelers-and-underwater-daylight/) - while working towards something coming up in the near future, aren't we all? thought i would post something, most of which is available, most of which has never been shown, hence never seen; a series of wendy and larry and maureen snorkelling n floating in saltwhistle bay in mayreau, in the tobago cays,and in bequia - [moon river morning](https://zarowsky.net/moon-river-morning/) - going thru tall boxes in the back room came across a watercolour had not seen / forgotten for years moon river morning shoreline 22" x 50" (framed at 37 x 64) - [Zarowsky at SCA 50th International Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-sca-50th-international-juried-exhibition/) - My entry 'new snowfall for a new pine' watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 30" x 30" x 1 3/4" juried into the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) 50th International Juried Exhibition Todmorden Mills Papermill Gallery, 67 Pottery Rd, Toronto, ON M4K 2B9 July 24, 2018 - August 19, 2018 July 26, 2018 - [working on paper again, more frequently anyways....](https://zarowsky.net/working-on-paper-again-more-frequently-anyways/) - working on paper again, and as i am not giving up working on panel, i suspect i will never sleep again. gathering up questions for all the bits and pieces which really don't matter / having early thoughts about winter n the high water floods... vertical garden balcony venice 15 / 22" x 30" / - [Colour & Form Society Award](https://zarowsky.net/colour-form-society-award/) - ....with windshield wipers slapping back n forth during the downpour along sherborne, took an hour and twenty five minutes to inch my way over n out to kipling n lakeshore from sherborne n bloor tonight; which is to say i got there later than late.... .....walked thru the doors and was completely Blown away; Lisea - [zarowsky at toronto outdoor art fair july 6 - 8](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-toronto-outdoor-art-fair-july-6-8/) - come by, say hello, see our new work at the toronto outdoor art fair nathan phillips square, July 6 - 8, 2018 booth c 237 - [Zarowsky at CFS Biennial Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-cfs-biennial-exhibition/) - All 3 of my entries of work from venice were juried into into the Colour and Form Society's 2018 Elected Members Biennial Exhibition. July 5th to August 17, 2018 Assembly Hall Gallery 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive, (Kipling & Lakeshore) Etobicoke dawn, san marco, venice canneregio, venice 25" x 17" watercolour on arches paper - [taking forever to go nowhere](https://zarowsky.net/taking-forever-to-go-nowhere/) - undulating with 4 upturned water lily pads 18" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel 4 Shares 3 Comments Comments Willene Kanasky This has such a calming effect on me . . . Micheal Zarowsky thanks Willene, stirrings, the water just lazed its way out, taking forever to go - [moonlit irises](https://zarowsky.net/moonlit-irises/) - irises ought be out now lining the banks of the saugeen river as thick as parade watchers waiting for the queen to float by; need to get up and soon; a number of years ago we went out at night during a full moon and sketched what was lit up by moonlight and came back - [Glorious n Free](https://zarowsky.net/glorious-n-free/) - worked up a painting of a canuck flag with reflection ./ was originally going to do a beaver atop his lodge waving a cdn flag, but in the end opted for a different kind of symbolism for the Glorious n Free Exhibition at Petroff Gallery June 24 - July 16th, 1016 Eglinton Avenue West Toronto, - [the right person for the right painting](https://zarowsky.net/the-right-person-for-the-right-painting/) - I have to tell you what this painting means to me, apart from you having created it. It’s the colors, the symbolism of the expanding rings on the water, the size of the painting. It brings a cool peace to my environment. I shall never get tired of it. Theresa Loomis infinity rings 135 - [CSPWC / SFA Exchange Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/cspwc-sfa-exchange-exhibition/) - my watercolour 'daylight dropping colour into the world' juried into, part of the CSPWC / CSPA (Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour) FWC (France Watercolour Society) Exchange Juried Exhibition - June 6 - July 7th, 2018 at the Helson Gallery (Halton Hills Cultural Centre) 9 Church Street, Georgetown (Halton , Ontario) Opening Reception June - [new work with galleries and studios](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-with-galleries-and-studios/) - back in late april, seems so long ago now, had left new works with Wendy Donabie at the Heron's Nest Studio in Bracebridge for her June 2nd opening. Delivered today more than a handful of new pieces to the Arta Gallery in the Distillery for their summer show - [go home bay road, georgian bay](https://zarowsky.net/go-home-bay-road-georgian-bay/) - small works from go home bay road, georgian bay autumn go home lake road georgian bay 12" x 12" watercolour painted directly on gessoed birch panel autumn shoreline go home bay road georgian bay 12" x 12" watercolour painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [Red Forest in CSPWC Water Reflections Exhibitions](https://zarowsky.net/red-forest-in-cspwc-water-reflections-exhibitions/) - Ya gotta have Friends. A big thank you to Anita of the Watercolour Society who called asking whether i was bringing in my entry into the Water Reflections Exhibition this morning, or not. I had it written in the daily calendar, but still, no excuses, totally forgot, forgot i did, did i, and just managed - [jurying the TWS Spring Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/jurying-the-tws-spring-exhibition/) - Last Monday had the pleasure of jurying the Toronto Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition at Paper Mill Gallery, at Todmodern Mills in Toronto and then presented the awards on Thursday evening as part of the opening of the exhibition.... try as i might to stay away from photos of me, some were taken, and Wendy urged - [backwater canals in venice](https://zarowsky.net/backwater-canals-in-venice/) - sunlit canal rio di malpaga 26" x 28" watercolour on arches paper. Tania Kasperska Wow ,splendid watercolor..!! Micheal Zarowsky thanks Tania, backwater canal / no toureestas / just quietness of summer with gently shimmering water reflections . Patricia Gullage Stunning as usual. Micheal Zarowsky thanks - [more venice](https://zarowsky.net/more-venice/) - after the responses to the initial canal landing painting, - [infinity rings / an ongoing exploration](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings-an-ongoing-exploration/) - slowly exploring what i hope is an infinite way to present water and water patterns an ongoing series of meditations starting with / moving from / losing ourselves in a spreading drop of water onto the surface of a pond / reaching out of ourselves all the way to and beyond the breathtaking spiral of - [(the beginning of) RAIN series](https://zarowsky.net/the-beginning-of-rain-series/) - (the beginning of) rain 19 watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel 19.5" x 23.5" (the beginning of) rain 20 watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel 26" x 34" (the beginning of) rain 18 watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch - [IWS entry](https://zarowsky.net/iws-entry/) - got a number of positive comments about the IWS post so reposting the whole thing with comments; after a weekend walk thru the fire that is a studio tour, got a refreshingly exciting email this morning from Ona Kingdom letting me know my venice painting itself made it thru the fire that is the - [Early work revisted](https://zarowsky.net/early-work-revisted/) - Carolyn Sugar sent our way her pics of 2 watercolours she has, which we did a long long while ago when we were learning all about leaves n trees n light n and water n and washes n paper densities n shredding possibilities n absorbencies n colours becoming friends with one another / musta been - [juried as finalist into IWS Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/juried-as-finalist-into-iws-exhibition/) - after a weekend walk thru the fire that is a studio tour, got a refreshingly exciting email this morning from Ona Kingdom letting me know my venice painting itself made it thru the fire that is the jurying process..... Dear Micheal, Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that from 320 paintings submitted from 32 - [Lake Scugog Studio Tour](https://zarowsky.net/lake-scugog-studio-tours/) - Marion send over pics of the work all set up and ready for the weekend show. thanks Marion. i never seem to get around to photo-ing any show we are in . Lake Sugog Studio Tour on this weekend in Port Perry, ON Saturday May 5 and Sunday May 6, 10 - [Zarowsky Guest Artist at Lake Scugog Studio Tour](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-guest-artist-at-lake-scugog-studio-tour/) - Lake Scugog Studio Tour Site 16 takes you to Port Perry & the Studio of Marion Meyers & her guests Bill Reddick & Micheal Zarowsky 318 McDonald Street, Port Perry, ON Saturday May 5th & Sunday May 6th, 2018 10 am onwards - [new winter magic](https://zarowsky.net/8494-2/) - small winter / magical experiences / all paintings are watercolour / acrylic / painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel new snowfall for a new pine 8 12" x 12" sunlight streaming thru the forest 12" x 12" late day sun across - [New snowfall for a new pine series](https://zarowsky.net/new-snowfall-for-a-new-pine-series/) - along a rock cut on a stretch of hwy 28 around eels creek a bunch of new pines growing in and among the rocks, pulling them back from being visually obvious, reclaiming them into the natural landscape. New snowfall for a new pine series roadside attractions / winter rock cuts along hwy 28 and 118 - [Zarowsky show continues at Chapel Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-show-continues-at-chapel-gallery/) - Do you need an uplifting splash of colour during these overcast days? Micheal Zarowsky’s solo exhibition at the Chapel Gallery will brighten your day. Step into the gallery and become embraced by every colour and hue imaginable. “Never one to be contained by any medium, I have over the years made continued leaps forward by - [highly evolved painter](https://zarowsky.net/highly-evolved-painter/) - Hilary Clark Cole shared your post. dan lake / beaver pond inlet connecting to dan lake / bare tree trunks in the water have bird houses nailed high up / how? / look impossible to climb without tipping / anyways side-gressed here / pond is situated so as to catch sun and shoreline reflections just - [Zarowsky at Kingsway-Lambton this Saturday April 7, 2018](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-kingsway-lambton-this-saturday-april-7-2018/) - Join us at the Kingsway - Lambton Fundraiser 10 am to 4 pm, April 7th, 2018 at 85 The kingsway, Toronto - [New Friends At the Chapel Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/friends-at-the-chapel-gallery/) - MUST see show on right now at Chapel Gallery in Bracebridge. Don't let the cool wintry card fool you, inside is a delicate riot of colour, images online do not do it justice. I've posted a link in the comments to one of the pieces in the show. One of my several (!) favourites. Muskoka - [Elected a Member of the Colours and Form Society](https://zarowsky.net/elected-a-member-of-the-colours-and-form-society/) - Received an Email from Shelley Newman, letting me know i have been elected a member in the Colour and Form Society. Dear Micheal, Our jury process is complete and I am very pleased to inform you that your application for membership has been accepted. Congratulation! I’m glad to be the first to welcome you to - [late winter blues](https://zarowsky.net/late-winter-blues/) - ....open streams as winter's fault lines.... new snowfall along an open stream watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gesseod birch panel 48" x 32" Bill Gayner You know things about the woods most of us don’t. Thank you for sharing as much as you do with us. Micheal Zarowsky - [Zarowsky at The Chapel Gallery end of March / 1st half of April](https://zarowsky.net/8379-2/) - Best Free Antivirus 2018 Your computer could be full of hidden viruses. Run a free virus scan today. top10bestantivirus.com Saturday, March 17, 2018-1 °C Information for GPS:Latitude: 45.0393105Longitude: -79.3052216 Additional Detail: All Ages | Free Contact info Name: Arts & Crafts Inc. Phone:(705) 645-5501 Details For Micheal Zarowsky, - [Georgian Bay Water Reflection in SCA International Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/georgian-bay-water-reflection-in-sca-international-exhibition/) - several of my water pieces are included in the Society of Canadian Artist's Online Exhibition http://shop.societyofcanadianartists.com/…/zarowsky-michae…/ op.societyofcanadianartists.com/…/2018-open-international-…/ Sunlit Birch Reflecting Days Detaching from the Uncertainty Of Yesterday and Anywhere Else 33" x 34" x 1 3/4" - [open streams are winter's fault lines](https://zarowsky.net/open-streams-are-winters-fault-lines/) - open streams are winter's fault lines open cedar stream 28 40" x 26" / watercolour on arches paper natural bridge spanning a new snowfall n unintended consequences of a new - [beaver pond with lily](https://zarowsky.net/beaver-pond-with-lily/) - beaver pond / autumn / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel 30" x 30" Ed Reliuga Oh my gosh! I am, once again , stunned. Beautiful work Michael. ge Micheal Zarowsky Watercolours / Acrylics thanks Ed, trying to simplify and still work out as much detail as needs to - [time stops at forest edge](https://zarowsky.net/time-stops-at-forest-edge/) - long stretch of daylight watecolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel 12" x 12" Helen-Louise Kinton shared your post. 3 hrs · Show Attachment Top of Form Like CommentShare 1Micheal Zarowsky Comments Micheal Zarowsky thanks Helen, i find at the edges of the forest time starts to lose meaning which makes it - [podcast link to radio interview at Hunters Bay Radio](https://zarowsky.net/podcast-link-to-radio-interview-at-hunters-bay-radio/) - Found the podcast link to the radio interview on Hunters Bay Radio, 88.7 fm, in Huntsville a week ago Monday for my exhibition coming up end of March at the Chapel Gallery in Bracebridge which was broadcast at the early hour of 7 :30 am on Sunday March 4th, and will be again tonight at11 - [radio interview and solo exhibition of new work](https://zarowsky.net/radio-interview-and-solo-exhibition-of-new-work/) - did a radio interview in Huntsville on Monday on Hunters Bay Radio, 88.7 fm, which will be broadcast at the early hour of 7 :30 am on Sunday March 4th, and 11 pm on Monday March 5th; - thankfully Helena will send along a link to a podcast which i can post - [New Works at Arta Gallery Spring Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/new-works-at-arta-gallery-spring-exhibition/) - have 4 new works in the Arta Gallery Spring Exhibition, one of which is...... magnolia (18) watercolour / acrylic pained directly on gessoed birch panel 28" x 40" Arta Gallery - Current Exhibitions The Distillery, Toronto www.artagallery.ca/ February 27 - March 11, 2018. Spring Dreams. Spring Dreams features the incredible works of artists that embody - [a big thank you](https://zarowsky.net/a-big-thank-you/) - a big thank you to the person who liked 'rue mouffetard, paris', enough to 'take' it home with them yesterday while i am at it, another available paris painting here at the studio ...simply message me and we can arm wrestle over price..... colour reflections of unbroken moments, left bank paris watercolour acrylic painted directly - [Paris painting up on Artbomb Auction](https://zarowsky.net/paris-painting-up-on-artbomb-auction/) - got an email from the West Coast commenting on my work, which surprised me; a quick look over to Artbomb, let me know that yes, my painting from Paris, has been up for sale in the online auction all day; (from: Richard Galasso: (Rue Moufftarde, Paris, Wow - another great one, Michael. I sent it - [new winter works](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-works/) - all winter long i have been strangely attracted to, drawn to, new growth pines; baby pines you might sya just poking themselves out of the snow the 2nd of 2 so far that have found expression on panel: new pine new snowfall 2 18" x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [talking my way thru an interview](https://zarowsky.net/talking-my-way-thru-an-interview/) - talking my way thru an interview...what else would i be doing? however given how neurotic i am, that is not a to be taken for granted statement..... up into the darkness of 4:30 am with a kiss to Wendy and asking her to get back into bed, out the.door by 5 and if i thought - [Winter trail painting up for bids on Artbomb](https://zarowsky.net/winter-trail-painting-up-for-bids-on-artbomb/) - up for bids / sale today on Artbomb daily auction Trail thru winter watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground over gessoed birch panel 16" x 16" http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/4897 - [valentines day sale](https://zarowsky.net/valentines-day-sale/) - have.um, had 2 paintings in this online sale, one left... http://blog.artbombdaily.com/…/artbomb-valentines-day-sale…/ ArtBomb Valentine’s Day Sale- Give A Gift That Last Forever! written by Carrie Shibinsky February 9, 2018 Valentine’s Day Sale! This Valentine’s Day Give a Gift That Lasts Forever! and Support Canadian art! (all works original and acrylic on canvas) – (delivered to your - [more work in auction](https://zarowsky.net/more-work-in-auction/) - life goes on / things happen in spite of ourselves / not that it benefits me in any direct immediate way, other than the works establish a continuing provenance, found out after the fact that a whole wackload of my works were up for auction at Waddington's on January 25th of this year / hopefully - [New work in Petroff Mini Show](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-in-petroff-mini-show/) - have 3 new pieces in the Petroff Gallery miniature show starting now and running thru part of February 1016 Eglinton Avenue West Toronto, Ontario M6C 2C5 416-782-1696 www.petroffgallery.com - [a painting of deep snow](https://zarowsky.net/a-painting-of-deep-snow/) - sometime posting a work online brings out a conversation which speaks a lot about not only the work itself, but how people are seeing / responding / thinking / liking or disliking it / in this way reposting it here the conversation becomes part of the seeing the painting itself 12" x 18" watercolour on - [Elected a Member of Ontario Society of Artists](https://zarowsky.net/elected-a-member-of-ontario-society-of-artists/) - woke up to an email from Kim Atkins, Chair of the New Members Committee, letting me know, that at the general meeting this past Saturday i was elected a member of the Ontario Society of Artists. Ontario Society of Artists The Arts and Letters Club 14 Elm Street -3rd Floor Toronto, Ontario 22 - [warm winter on cold winter days](https://zarowsky.net/warm-winter-on-cold-winter-days/) - light at the edge of winter 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel forest full of morning 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel - [winter itself is a gift this year](https://zarowsky.net/winter-itself-is-a-gift-this-year/) - winter itself is the gift this year trail 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic pained directly on gessed birch panel Marilyn Woolston Beautiful Micheal Micheal Zarowsky thanks Marilyn, it is fun times all round with all this snow.... Kate Kitchen Lovely and mysterious blue shadows Micheal Zarowsky thanks Kate, hopefully the strength of - ['trail thru winter' on artbomb today](https://zarowsky.net/trail-thru-winter-on-artbomb-today/) - just got an email from a man out Abbotsford BC who likes the colours of my snow which perked me antennae up to visit artbomb where lo and behold one of my winter pieces is up for bids for a few more hours anyways... trail thru winter 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly - [8 new winter magic at Arta Gallery Christmas Show](https://zarowsky.net/8-new-winter-magic-at-arta-gallery-christmas-show/) - for the Arta Gallery Christmas Show November 16th - December 27th, 2017 14 Distillery lane, Toronto - [Happy New Year](https://zarowsky.net/happy-new-year-4/) - HAPPY NEW YEAR may 2018 be a year of fulfilled possibilities for everyone health happiness imagination prosperity chocolate oodles of fun n adventure ready to start the run all over again...... - [new winter](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-3/) - diptych 'daylight dropping colour into the world' 16" x 16" and 'sunlight climbing up the hillside' 16" x 16" together 16" x 32" / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel - [Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays](https://zarowsky.net/seasons-greetings-happy-holidays/) - Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays thanks everyone for a tough tough tough yet fabulous 2017 would not have lived it any other way micheal n Wendy. - [last minute](https://zarowsky.net/last-minute/) - perfect last minute wrapped ideas for under the tree or in an oversized stocking hanging from the fireplace mantle 8 new small Zarowsky winter paintings available at Petroff Gallery / at least a half dozen or so left at Arta Gallery in the Disitllery and of course check out the website, choose what you can't - [new winter](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-2/) - new winter pieces: sunlit hillside 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoeod birch panel an ongoing series of light cascading down the hillside; sunlight streaming 9 18" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoeod birch panel - [december open studio exhibition and sale](https://zarowsky.net/december-open-studio-exhibition-and-sale/) - OPEN STUDIO ALL DECEMBER LONG 12" x 12" watercolcour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel You are cordially invited come by to our annual fall open studio sale, or visit our website and shop online November 16th thru December 27th call ahead: 416.925.8510 or email: micheal@zarowsky.net to set up a time that - [Holiday Exhibition Opening at Arts Etobicoke](https://zarowsky.net/holiday-exhibition-opening-at-arts-etobicoke/) - Reposting Margie's announcement of this evenings' opening at Arts Etobicoke where i have one of my water pieces up for sale Margie Macdonald infinity rings 112 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel Join us at a.r.t. annual Holiday Exhibition. This year we are exhibition 19 - [small winter watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/small-winter-watercolours/) - It all becomes as abstract as anything yet is as real as need be to find my way back out again sunlight streaming thru the forest 12"x12" watercolour / acrylic painted on gessoed birch panel doing a small, one day, event on saturday nov 18th, 2017- 10 am to 5pm - ['20 views of paris from a balcony' painting given an award](https://zarowsky.net/20-views-of-paris-from-a-balcony-painting-given-an-award/) - got a neat call this morning from Lesia Shipowick of the Colour and Form Society letting me know that at yesterday's opening, my painting '20 views of paris from a balcony' was awarded 3rd place (a terrific show of 64 paintings making up the exhibition) - [Zarowsky in Group Show at Petroff Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-in-group-show-at-petroff-gallery/) - with Richard Sturgeon, Renato Foti and myself. Exhibition runs October 1 - 16th, 2017 Petroff Gallery 1016 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, ON, M6C 2C5 Telephone 416-782-1696 Email info@petroffgallery.com - [Zarowsky Paris Watercolour at Colour & Form Society Juried Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-paris-watercolour-at-colour-form-society-juried-exhibition/) - 20 views of paris from a balcony (#27) 30" x 22" watercolour on arches paper juried into the Colour & Form Society's 65th Annual Open Juried Exhibition Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery. 399 The West Mall, Etobicoke November 1 - 29th, 2017 https://zarowsky.net/…/paris-interiors-secluded-backyar…/ Micheal Zarowsky only a few left in this series - 20 Views - [dogwood sunset](https://zarowsky.net/dogwood-sunset-2/) - Micheal Zarowsky Reflections on the middle of nowhere: Watercolours / Acrylics / Pastels Dogwood Sunset Series this is a less of a repost and more of an update...Dogwood Sunset which was part of Wendy's collection from the day it was painted, was shown to great attention and scooped up at the end of the show - [Paris Watercolour Juried into Colour & Form Society Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/paris-watercolour-juried-into-colour-form-society-exhibition/) - Nov 1 - 29 -2017 my watercolour, 20 views of Paris from a balcony (#27) 30" x 22" accepted into 65th annual juried exhibition of the Colour & Form Society - Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery / 399 The West Mall, Etobicoke - [Zarowsky at Lawrence Pk Church Show & Sale](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-lawrence-pk-church-show-sale/) - Sat 14th noon to 4 pm / Sun 15th noon to 3 pm www.lawrenceparkchurch.ca/artshow - [dogwood sunset](https://zarowsky.net/dogwood-sunset/) - There is a completeness then everything is simple and everything is complicated at the same time, my paintings have an overall simplicity or directness to them yet are made up of all the complicated stuff that is that simplicity dogwood sunset 22" x 30" watercolour on arches paper when it didn’t matter which direction I - [True North, Pine painting at NEXT2 Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/true-north-pine-painting-at-next2-exhibition/) - My painting , True North, Pine is juried into NEXT2 Exhibition at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto Exhibition runs Oct 1 - 27, 2017 - [Autumn Pond on ArtbombDaily.com auction](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-pond-on-artbombdaily-com-auction/) - (from sketches made up along the west arm of lake nipissing) is up for bids all day today at Artbombdaily.com 36" x 36" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [additional responses from c s p w c exhibit](https://zarowsky.net/additional-responses-from-c-s-p-w-c-exhibit/) - 20" x 26" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel CommentShare 25 Sherry Warren-Biers, Josy Britton and 23 others 1 Share Comments Tania Kasperska Excellent always..!! okay so while there is a healthy smattering of interest in the watercolour on paper i ought sneak in that there is a alternate - [Zarowsky at 92nd CSPWC Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-92nd-cspwc-exhibition/) - 'autumn pond with birch reflection' 30" x 22" watercolour on arches paper was juried into the 92nd International Open Water Exhibition of the CSPWC You are cordially invited to the 92nd Annual juried International Open Water reception evening Thursday September 21, 2017 6pm -8pm at the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto. (900 Bay Street - [september waters](https://zarowsky.net/setpember-water/) - pickerel weed is changing colours, adopting reds on their way out, breezes stir the waters a little cooler now, the air thins to purples windstirred moments pickerel weed 19 devil's lake 24" x 24" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel In fact this probably presages some future - [new water works](https://zarowsky.net/new-water-works/) - pickerel weed 14 11.75" x 14.75" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel autumn on the pond 19 43" x 32" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel infinity rings 131 18" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [Zarowsky at CSPWC 92nd Open Water Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-cspwc-92nd-open-water-exhibition/) - ‘reflection with birches , autumn pond, divine lake’ was juried into the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour 92nd Open Water Exhibition Sept 19th - Oct 17th, 2017 John B. Aird Gallery, 900 Bay St., Toronto Opening Reception Thursday Sept 21, 6 - 9 pm and reflection with - [Where to see / buy my work this September](https://zarowsky.net/where-to-see-buy-my-work-this-september/) - this weekend Sept 8 - 10, 2017 look for me at the Cabbagetown Arts & Crafts Festival / Riverdale Park at Sumach n Winchester, Toronto into the Society of Canadian Artists 49th International Exhibition Sept 6 - 17th, 2017 at Papermill Gallery at Todmorgen Mills, 67 Pottery Rd, Toronto Wed - Fri 12 - 4pm - [Zarowsky at Arts & Letters Club Fall Show](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-arts-letters-club-fall-show/) - Zarowsky at the Arts & Letters Club Fall Show, 14 Elm Street, Toronto Sept 2 -30th, 2017 autumn on the pond 48" x 30" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [weekend display of new work](https://zarowsky.net/weekend-display-of-new-work/) - kind of an involved weekend for seeing our work everywhere but the studio..... we found out about last minute, no, actually, later than last minute about the Purple Turtle Art Festival at the bottom of Lake Simcoe, the Briar's in Jackson's Point, Ontario: called asked and we were found a space on the green. - [connecting with the past](https://zarowsky.net/connecting-with-the-past/) - curious day; we followed up after a gal contacted us who saw and liked one our paintings in an office at the Landmark Title of Racine, Inc. 719 Washington Avenue, Racine, WI 53403. and asked if they could send along an image of the work they had; Got a jpeg back from the President himself, - [august pond](https://zarowsky.net/august-pond/) - august pond / worked out the largest water pattern as yet a 48" x 48" square and posted it before i worked out in my head whether or not i was satisfied with the result; it is everything i wanted it to be so no concerns there or that way, i guess just the size - [Zarowsky at Cavan Art Gallery Show with Lucy Manley](https://zarowsky.net/cavan-art-gallery-show-with-lucy-manley/) - \\ 16 x 16. 705 944 9444 Comments Ed Reliuga Again......Michael, you surprise me anew. You've literally made an abstract of one of your abstracts! Astounding result. Micheal Zarowsky replied · 1 Reply Okay. the painting, in it's entirety beaver pond with lilies 16" x 16" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic - [New Work at Art With Panache Gallery, London, ON](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-art-with-panache-gallery-london-on/) - Audrey at Art with Panache on London, has my works up on her walls / nine new pieces all original, unique and for sale. the top one is fog n horizon, bay of fundy, outside digby / the bottom suggests some of the magic a winter trail on a sunny can - [full moons n' winter](https://zarowsky.net/full-moons-n-winter/) - watercolour painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel Linda A Noel Michael is one of the best water colour artists in Toronto. Go and attend one of his shows, you will be very happy if you did. LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 1 · 17 hrs Manage Micheal Zarowsky thank you - [location location location](https://zarowsky.net/location-location-location/) - got a fun email today which made it worth while to repost the painting displayed at the Woodstock Art Gallery during their Visual Elements 59 Exhibition: Cathy Groulx [CathyGroulx@hotmail.com] Thu 03/08/2017 1:03 PM micheal@zarowsky.net WAG painting Hi Micheal, I just thought I should tell you that your painting is front and centre as you walk - [birch n reflection](https://zarowsky.net/birch-n-reflection/) - birches literally cling along the north shore of the steep embankment of the black river just east of coopers falls; one let go and while still held to the shore by its roots was bobbing out in the silent swift black waters currant that the river is at this point; isolating the birch n it's - [new lido bikes](https://zarowsky.net/new-lido-bikes/) - red honda harbour st toronto 19" x 14" watercolour on arches paper lido bikes 164 16" x 16" x 1 3/4" from kensington, the original farmers market, on augusta, now fighting for its life with trendy moving in - [drowned land](https://zarowsky.net/drowned-land/) - encounters with silence on a day of many colours drowned land, beaver pond 48" x 36" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel 18 Hilary Clark Cole, Berni Aziz and 16 others 1 share Comments Alan Doner I find this entire painting so compelling I'm drawn to all areas equally. 5 - [thoughts on 'time'](https://zarowsky.net/thoughts-on-time/) - north of wilderness..... daydream overhanging willows rustle their leaves in the reflecting comfort of going nowhere 18" x 26" ... watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel " Cathy Groulx: Mine lately are really large and taking a long time to finish! Micheal Zarowsky: you and i know that time does not matter:" - [New bike painting at Blue Crow Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-bike-painting-at-blue-crow-gallery/) - have a small bike on display é for sale at the Blue Crow Gallery`s celebration of Canada`s 150th. - July 1st thru 31st, 2017. Opening reception July 13th, 7 - 9 pm 1610 Gerrard St East, Toronto lido bikes 150 12`` x 12`` x 1 3é4` watercolour / acrylic painted - [a difficult season and a beautiful thing](https://zarowsky.net/a-difficult-season-and-a-beautiful-thing/) - north shore trail - 11.5" x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel Tania Kasperska I am impressed aye Your work ..!!! 1 · 15 hrs · Edited Micheal Zarowsky replied · 1 Reply Micheal Zarowsky thanks Tania, very kind of you to say so. i like what we - [beaver ponds, reflections and poison ivy: all part of summer](https://zarowsky.net/beaver-ponds-reflections-and-poison-ivy-all-part-of-summer/) - descending drowned land (5) 24" x 32" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel 21 Ron Jacques, George Heigenhauser and 19 others 3 shares 1 Comment Comments Ed Reliuga and just when I thought I had seen your full array of "tricks".....you do this. "Infinity rings" morphed into so many - [places to lose oneself](https://zarowsky.net/7690-2/) - seeing developed over time or can they be a direct expression of expression of how one is wired up one of course one realizes how one is wired .. up. My wiring, well lets not go there… Frank Horenkamp Do I sense a possible Asperger connection? The perception, eye for detail, talent and the form - [Zarowsky at Art for Autism Festival](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-art-for-autism-festival/) - Zarowsky at Art for Autism Festival You are invited to join me at the Art for Autism Festival taking place this weekend, where I will be taking part / showing / selling new works - all works posted at www.zarowsky.net Gala Preview Evening: Friday June 16th - 7 to 11 pm Art Festival: Sat & - [crossing seasons](https://zarowsky.net/crossing-seasons/) - In making art, you carry out your own vision, not anyone else’s. It’s more personal than showing your influences and it’s beyond trend. And this is easier said than done. trail thru winter (14) 24" x 14" x 1 3/4" watercolour / acrylic painted drectly on absorbent ground on gessoed panel - [evolving rains](https://zarowsky.net/evolving-rains/) - Occasionally facebook posts end up in a thoughtful exchange worthy of reposting to the blog; in keeping with trying to get anyone seeing my work to see it / see what is there/ these exchanges will on occassion focus on particular moments in time which is a large part of what we offer up: light - [May skip the rain tomorrow](https://zarowsky.net/may-skip-the-rain-tomorrow/) - rainy day forecast tomorrow all around BOOTH 35 we may or may not last the morning / the day / will decide how to handle what there is to handle - [riverdale art walk - june 3 & 4, 2017](https://zarowsky.net/7616-2/) - riverdale artwalk / jimmie simpson park, queen street east between degrassi n booth ave., toronto sat june 3rd & sun june 4th 11 to 6pm come see us / our new work in / at BOOTH 35 website: www.zarowsky.net flyer image: spring melt; open stream washago 12.5 " x 18" watercolour / acrylic painted directly - [autumn infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-infinity-rings/) - the infinity rings – the point is that the water patterns / circles expand and eventually go off the page / canvas / panel / and into your thoughts – that is what it is all about – in one sense the paintings are a beginning point – every time you look you end up - [new orleans watercolours](https://zarowsky.net/new-orleans-watercolours/) - existing visual time warp ... for the unexpected, for a lively active unregulated unfettered unsublimated imagination and the possibility of spending parts of each day working through things 'after dark, New Orleans' 17" x 22" watercolour on arches paper unframed 1100.00 12" x 19" unframed watercolour on arches paper 450.00 Tania Kasperska Fabulous..!! Micheal - [Open Studio](https://zarowsky.net/open-studio/) - Opening our studio May 8th - 31st , 2017 All New work for sale posted on website: www.zarowsky.net (If you see something online you can’t live without we do ship fedex worldwide) we ask you call ahead to set up a time that works for you. (both daytime and evenings work - [infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/7587-2/) - The world is my oyster n other inappropriate deranged floating concerns (dalewood pond / reservoir / st thomas) infinity rings with branches kissing the water 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel seeing developed over time or can they be a direct expression of how one is wired - [....water hieroglyphs.....](https://zarowsky.net/water-hieroglyphs/) - 18" x 12.5" acrylic / watercolour painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel cool comments Ed Reliuga easily the most abstract of the paintings that you have posted recently. This painting is so free and uninhibited. I absolutely love it. Remove Micheal Zarowsky thanks Ed, i like free and uninhibited; if i - [new bicycle paintings with a harley thrown in](https://zarowsky.net/7552-2/) - harley 16" x 16" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel ...some posts involve comments from outside worth including into / making up the post.... Micheal Zarowskythanks Ed, for - [fall angst](https://zarowsky.net/7568-2/) - certain places have charmed us time after time. In exploring for ideas, we come upon a place and then make it our own ...seeing the entire universe from a small water pattern.... autumn on the pond 24 28" x 28" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel then become the paintings themselves. Some - ['pool n ball' watercolour up for bids on artbomb today](https://zarowsky.net/pool-n-ball-watercolour-up-for-bids-on-artbomb-today/) - halfway thru the day i notice that my painting 'pool n ball' (bermuda) is up for bids today on Artbombdaily.com pool n ball - 22" x 14" (framed at 30" x 22" ) watercolour on arches paper http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/4090 .....so is the day half full or half empty..... - [a new series on winter in retreat](https://zarowsky.net/a-new-series-on-winter-in-retreat/) - a new series about 'late winter' 'heat at the base of the trees creating little islands in the snow... 'winter in retreat up the hill' 12" x 12" watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel a - [upcoming showing with 2 groups](https://zarowsky.net/upcoming-showing-with-2-groups/) - showing with Ontario Society of Artists, (OSA) in their 144th Annual Open Juried Exhibition from April 4th to 28th, 2017 at the John B Aird Gallery, 900 Bay St., Toronto and have 2 works juried into the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC) Water Reflections Exhibition, from - [Zarowsky at Kingsway - Lambton Show / Sale this Saturday](https://zarowsky.net/7480-2/) - showing / selling new works at the Kingsway-Lambton Church Fundraiser this Saturday April 1st, 10 am to 4 pm. 85 The Kingsway, Toronto. - [infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/infinity-rings/) - in coming to understand the water patterns we call infinity rings, meditating on the mostly gentle ripples we saw that there was a selective sameness, an almost 80% repetition with each expanding wavelet which became so burned into memory that we counted them at night instead of sheep jumping fences; to continue to be able - [Late Winter](https://zarowsky.net/late-winter-3/) - sketches last friday along the frozen shoulders of hwy 169 as the sun changed its' mind and did not come up turned into paintings come wednesday - [Jurying the Muskoka Arts & Crafts Spring Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/jurying-the-muskoka-arts-crafts-spring-exhibition/) - our job was to be magnanimous in spirit. congrats to everyone who was accepted into the exhibition. in our minds was already ahead, had already accomplished what they had set out to do; we spent all day, 7+ hours, familiarizing ourselves with the work in the hall, looking for and finding works that were worth - [ideas abstracted, abstracted ideas](https://zarowsky.net/ideas-abstracted-abstracted-ideas/) - new works most oft he work is based on ideas abstracted from places that have called out to us, abstracted ideas as it were..... expressing the essence of the place - autumn pond reflection #30 is perhaps a tad more abstract than others autumn pond reflection 30 - 20" x 23.5" - mixed media (watercolour - [new work at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-arta-gallery/) - dropped off several new spring pieces at Arta Gallery in the Distillery in Toronto yesterday spring stream 32" x 48" acrylic / watercolour painted directly on gessoed birch panel magnolia (18) 28" x 40" acrylic / watercolour painted directly on gessoed birch panel - [Jurying at the Arts & letters Club](https://zarowsky.net/jurying-at-the-arts-letters-club/) - i go.. i go... ...invited to jury the Spring Group Show at the Arts & Letters Club this morning..... given the long and distinguished history of the club this is an honour.....i hope i can be up to snuff with respect to selecting work that will meet their high standards. they kindly allowed me to - [Part of Group Exhibition at Petroff Galery](https://zarowsky.net/part-of-group-exhibition-at-petroff-galery/) - new work at Petroff Gallery at the Petroff Gallery 1016 Eglinton Ave., West, Toronto - March 1st thru 31st, 2017 https://www.petroffgallery.com/collections/micheal-zarowsky - [at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/at-arta-gallery/) - now showing with Arta Gallery. 14 Distillery Lane, Toronto http://www.artagallery.ca/artists/single/84/M.-Zarowsky. - [winter painting up for bids on ArtBomb today](https://zarowsky.net/winter-painting-up-for-bids-on-artbomb-today/) - up for bids on ARTBOMB today... ..http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3923 Michael Zarowsky (2017) mixed media on wood 16in × 16in × 1in — 0lb Michael Zarowsky is one of the more original of the new canadian painters working in watercolour, acrylic and pastels. A member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Zarowsky's works are - [Black cat watercolour on Artbomb online auction today](https://zarowsky.net/black-cat-watercolour-on-artbomb-online-auction-today/) - Black Cat on Artbomb Online Auction Black Cat on a Mediterranean Balcony, Michael Zarowsky (2017) watercolour on paper -framed 18in × 24in × 1in — 4lb Michael Zarowsky is one of the more original of the new canadian painters working in watercolour, acrylic and pastels. A member of the Canadian Society of Painters in - [Resale](https://zarowsky.net/resale/) - zarowsky watercolour puerto vallarta found out that 6 of my earlier paintings -5 works from venice and one from the tropics are up for re-sell at A H Wilkens auction house in Oakville on Feb 7th. 2017 and what the fuck! Wilkens got my info all wrong - given me a - [Zarowsky at Peel Art Gallery & Musuem Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-peel-art-gallery-musuem-exhibition/) - Peel Art Gallery & Museum is Hosting an Exhibition of Works from the National Diploma Collection of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour; The Exhibition is a presentation of selected works from the collection in support of the curators thesis entitled: Water & Pigment, Mysterious Interactions. My painting, 'floating yellow tango line 16" x - [Winter painting up in Online Auction on Artbomb today](https://zarowsky.net/winter-painting-up-in-online-auction-on-artbomb-today/) - http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3753 sunlit forest, sun painted shadows edging the afternoon 16” x 18” x 1 ¾ “ (size posted on artbomb has a typo suggesting it is smaller) Michael Zarowsky (2016) mixed media on wood panel Michael Zarowsky is one of the more original of the new canadian painters working in watercolour, acrylic and pastels. A - [not me](https://zarowsky.net/not-me/) - departures towards sheeplike insanity; do not do selfies; paid for all these extra fotos from the article shoot; with the 'heavy' being on the paid part, so in looking for a reason / way to use them or just toss em; the feeblest excuse is they show off a bit of the studio; explaining - [Zarowsky featured On Barbara Stroud's Online Blog](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-featured-on-barbara-strouds-online-blog/) - https://artfoodhome.com/2017/01/25/featured-artist-micheal-zarowsky/ Featured Artist: Micheal Zarowsky! ArtFoodHome.com Artists, Recipes, House Plans and More! Home A B O U T A R C H I T E C T Submissions A R T I S T Submissions Emerging Artist Submission Artist Submission C O N T A C T m e Featured Artist: Micheal Zarowsky! On January 25, - [paint the light](https://zarowsky.net/paint-the-light/) - ...sunprints snowprints blueprints....silence..... Comments Kieran McAuliffe Beautiful! Unlike · Reply · 1 · 19 hrs Micheal Zarowsky Morning Kieran, nothing beats sunlight deep inside the forest...okay ....occasionally seeing the rabbit that made all those tracks in the snow ...goes one better.... Like · Reply · 19 hrs Tania Kasperska Amazing..!!! Unlike · Reply · 1 - [the zarowsky touch](https://zarowsky.net/the-zarowsky-touch/) - The Art of Micheal Zarowsky [Cover title} Sent: January-20-17 11:08 PM To: micheal@zarowsky.net Subject: Re: cover story Wonderful, congratulations and very well deserved ! Love the photo ! Best,Anna catherine.munro catherine.munro [catherine.munro@sympatico.ca]\You two are just too cute! Love the cover story. Love Catherine xo ANNE SCHULTZ [anewchapter@rogers.com] What a beautiful picture of the two - [stop and start winter](https://zarowsky.net/stop-and-start-winter/) - another winter where we get a snowfall then warm weather moves in melts winter right back to bare ground and we wait for a fresh snowfall to start winter anew; many repeated beginnings all offering early or initial displays of winter as opposed to those years when snow is built up on snowfall after snowfall; - [Georgian Bay up for bids on Artbomb today](https://zarowsky.net/georgian-bay-up-for-bids-on-artbomb-today-2/) - as the sun goes down on the year....... Late Day Sun, Georgian Bay 18" x 18" x 1 3/4" mixed media on gessoed birch panel is up for bids on ARTBOMBDAILY.COM http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3581 - [new winter](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter/) - ...New routes thru the forest..... 'sunlight piercing the forest floor with a reckless energy 'n colour strewn all over on a day with beauty to spare' 18" x 24" acrylic (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on absorbent ground on gessoed birch panel) Kieran McAuliffe Nobody does winter and snow like Micheal. Nobody! Fantastic and beautiful. - [Zarowsky at Eclipse Gallery Dec 2 - March 30](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-eclipse-gallery-dec-2-march-30/) - Eclipse Gallery http://www.eclipseartgallery.ca/artists/#/michael-zarowsky/ Winterscape • Fri, Dec 2, 2016 10:00pm Thu, Mar 30, 2017 11:00pm • Eclipse Art Gallery Winterscape- Art Show at Eclipse Art Gallery - Deerhurst Resort Winterscape December 2 -March 30 We welcome Winter with snowy scenes by visual artists Brigitte Granton, Eleanor Lowden, Jenny Gordon and new to our roster; Micheal - [Georgian Bay up for bids on Artbomb today](https://zarowsky.net/georgian-bay-up-for-bids-on-artbomb-today/) - a 18" x 18" x 1 3/4" mixed media on gessoed birch panel is up for bids on ARTBOMBDAILY.COM http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3581 - [HAPPY NEW YEAR](https://zarowsky.net/happy-new-year-2/) - health happiness prosperity oodles of fun may anything and everything even remotely desirably possible cross your path in the new year n if i have omitted anything well then just by all means add it to your list and sign our name to it merrily merrily rolling along our way - [Zarowsky at Petroff; Last Week](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-petroff-last-week/) - last week of the year.... last week of the show..... how often do things in the universe align so perfectly? Zarowsky at the Petroff Gallery ... 1016 Eglinton Ave., West, Toronto https://www.petroffgallery.com/collections/michael-zarowsky Joel Zelikovitz December 29 at 5:33pm Saw your exhibit today at Petroff. It looked wonderful there. A - [season's greetings](https://zarowsky.net/seasons-greetings-2/) - Season's Greetings to Everyone; late in posting this but then exhaustion overtook and i crashed and slept for 30 hours got up n peed and crashed again for 14 hours missing some of the festivities always surprised when a painting that has left the studio calls home; autumn on the pond now - [new winter pieces](https://zarowsky.net/new-winter-pieces/) - It is December, i remember too late, I forgot to run thru the sprinklers in the heat of the summer once again..... long fingers of light as the day and the sun part ways 12" x 12" mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel) - [Zarowsky featured at Petroff thru December](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-featured-at-petroff-thru-december/) - Eglinton Petroff 7 hrs · *Feature Artist* Micheal Zarowsky's beautiful landscape paintings are brightening the gallery! Come in to take a closer look! #featureartist#windowdisplay#landscapepainting#winterscenes#winterishere#petroffgalleryMicheal Zarowsky Watercolours / Acrylics - [Zarowsky Exhibition at Petroff Gallery thru December](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-exhibition-at-petroff-gallery-thru-december/) - The Petroff Gallery is pleased to present a feature exhibition of new work by Micheal Zarowsky entitled Colours of the Season. Micheal's unique watercolour and acrylic paintings emphasize discovery and the wonder of light and the outdoors. all works available for purchase online and free delivery within Toronto area Discover 30+ paintings for purchase in Gallery - [35 new works at the Petroff gallery in December](https://zarowsky.net/35-new-works-at-the-petroff-gallery-in-december/) - The Petroff has posted all the work, all 35 pieces, in the December 7 - 31st exhibition on their website: all work available for purchase online with free delivery within the tororto area https://www.petroffgallery.com/collections/michael-zarowsky - [Open Studio December 3 - 31st, 2016](https://zarowsky.net/open-studio-december-3-31st-2016/) - ........i thought i brought 2 dozen pieces... in reality i left them with 35 new works...... (one day will have to learn to count) .for those who cannot wait , for those who want to pop by the studio to pick up new available work they do not have at the gallery....but which we we - [December Exhibition at Petroff Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/december-exhibition-at-petroff-gallery/) - new small winter paintings for Petroff Gallery Exhibition December 7 - 31st, 2016 trail thru winter 6 18" x 18" mixed media trail thru winter 2 12" x 12" mixed media trail thru winter 4 - [Now showing with Eclipse Gallery In Huntsville](https://zarowsky.net/now-showing-with-eclipse-gallery-in-huntsville/) - http://www.eclipseartgallery.ca/artists#/michael-zarowsky/ Save Save - [Zarowsky at Petroff Gallery in December](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-petroff-gallery-in-december/) - an advance note; been invited to put up a show during December at the Petroff Gallery - [paris romance up for bids on Artbomb.daily.com](https://zarowsky.net/paris-romance-up-for-bids-on-artbomb-daily-com/) - my painting 'Paris Romance', (watercolour on arches paper) 13.5" x 16" is up / available today Friday November 4th, in the ARTBOMB online auction http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3604 Save - [Zarowsky at St Vlad's in Oakville](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-at-st-vlads-in-oakville/) - You are cordially invited to the Expressions Art Show & Sale in which i will be taking part, showing n selling my newest works at St Volodomyr Cultural Centre, 1280 Dundas Street West, Oakville, Ontario Friday November 4th, 7 to 10 pm Saturday November 5th , 10 am to 5 pm Sunday November 6th, 10 - [winter light anew](https://zarowsky.net/winter-light-anew/) - .sunlight somewhere inbetween strategies of sooner or later... winsdwept snowlight - [inbetween season](https://zarowsky.net/inbetween-season/) - ....november is a season all its' own..... overnight snowfall 21 black river / entrance to queen lizzy highlands 40" x 40" mixed media painted directly on acid free foamcore 75" x 28" mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel) overnight snowfall 22 50" - [caught on film again....](https://zarowsky.net/caught-on-film-again/) - for a guy who prefers to stay anonymous, who has never even taken a selfie....got sent this tonight from Ona Kingdon.......me n my yellow jacket have been digitally captured by others way way too much this year; picking up an award at the CSPWC OPEN WATER AWARDS Reception held last week at the John B. - [Late Day Sun up for bids on ArtbombDaily.com](https://zarowsky.net/late-day-sun-up-for-bids-on-artbombdaily-com/) - my painting 'Late Day Sun, Georgian Bay', is up / available in todays' ARTBOMB online auction Late Day Sun, Georgian Bay 18" x 18" x 1 3/4" mixed media http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3581 - [Part of Autumn Exhibition at Libby"s Fine Art](https://zarowsky.net/part-of-autumn-exhibition-at-libbys-fine-art/) - my 'autumn infinity rings' are part of Autumn Splendour Exhibition at John A. Libby's Gallery, 463 King St., East, Toronto October 27 - Nov 5th, 2016 Opening Reception Thursday October 27th, 2016 7 to 9:30 pm Save - ['blue pine' given award at CSPWC OPEN WATER](https://zarowsky.net/blue-pine-given-award-at-cspwc-open-water/) - my watercolour 'blue pine' was given the Heinz Jordan Sanford Award at the Opening Reception of the 91st Annual Open Water Juried International Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour blue pine 22" x 30" watercolour on arches paper (2100.00) Pat Edwards ATTA BOY, Micheal!! LOVE - [touch the stars](https://zarowsky.net/touch-the-stars/) - every year around this time - mid october thru november - there is an angst that permeates / a loneliness of the universe that resonates thru my being when i cross an imaginary line which i deem the north / this past Wednesday the crossing point was georgian bay road / crooked bay road - [5 new pieces in Arta Gallery Autumn Group Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/5-new-pieces-in-arta-gallery-autumn-group-exhibition/) - .....busy busy busy working the Lawrence Park show this weekend forgot all about being part of the Autumn Exhibition at the ARTA Gallery..... have 5 new pieces at the Hello Autumn October 13 - 31, 2016 Jan Wheeler,Laurie De Camillis, Jamie MacLean, Sue Ennis, Morgan Jones, John Lightfoot, Lynne Schumacher, Gene Tempelmeyer, Peter Colbert, Mike - ['Blue pine' painting juried into Open Water 2016](https://zarowsky.net/blue-pine-painting-juried-into-open-water-2016/) - My painting 'blue pine' 22" x 30" watercolour on arches paper was juried into the 91st Open Water You are invited to attend the Opening Reception of our 91st Annual Open Water Juried International Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour Date and Time: Thursday October 20th, 6pm to 8pm, 2016 Place: - [Lawrence Park Exhibition Opens Tomorrow](https://zarowsky.net/lawrence-park-exhibition-opens-tomorrow/) - Opens Tomorrow 7 to 9 pm Lawrence Pk Church Fundraiser Exhibition exhibiting my latest works at the Lawrence Park Community Church Fundraiser 2180 Bayview Ave, Toronto come by, say hello, you can find me and a painting you will like enough to take home with you in BOOTH 9 in the sanctuary this coming weekend - [Lawrence Pk Church Fundraiser Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/lawrence-pk-church-fundraiser-exhibition/) - I will exhibiting new works at the Lawrence Park Community Church Fundraiser 2180 Bayview Ave, Toronto come by, say hello, you can find me and a painting you will like enough to take home with you in BOOTH 9 in the sanctuary this coming weekend October 14 - 16, 2016 Friday October 14th, 7 -pm - [Some fotos from Illumine Opening](https://zarowsky.net/some-fotos-from-illumine-opening/) - the opening at Illumine Gallery in St Thomas, Ontario Oct 1st to Nov 12th, 2016 Jeanette Marshall added 3 new photos. October 2 at 9:41am · The opening of TERRA took place at Illumine Gallery last evening. The artwork is superb -- a solid collection of Canadian landscape paintings by a group of top-notch painters: - [Sunfires](https://zarowsky.net/sunfires/) - sunfires (sherborne lake access rd) 'infinity rings (58)' 24" x 48" mixed media (as with most things posted here, it is available) Caroline Rennie I was recently at the Orangerie in Paris and realise that you too should have such a room for your infinity rings in all seasons... I would lie there four hours - [Blue on Artbomb Online Auction](https://zarowsky.net/blue-on-artbomb-online-auction/) - my painting 'Blue, Georgian Bay', is up / available in the ARTBOMB online auction Wednesday Oct 5th, 2016 http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3531 - [Two New Exhibitions](https://zarowsky.net/two-new-exhibitions/) - Hello Everyone, Hopefully you have had a terrific summer; You are cordially invited to attend an Exhibition of new works By the Canadian Art Collective In which / of which I am part of at The Arta Gallery At 14 Distillery Lane, Toronto, Ontario September 27th thru Oct 11th, 2016 look forward to seeing you - [Pond at dusk](https://zarowsky.net/pond-at-dusk/) - the rains change the natural edgelines 'pond at dusk' (2) 20" x 30" mixed media comments; Tania Kasperska Amazing work...!! Like · Reply · 20 hrs Micheal Zarowsky thanks Tania, Like · Reply · 17 hrs Micheal Zarowsky has a moodiness of sorts to it i think Like · Reply · 17 hrs - [Exhibition at Teresa Seaton's Studio continues thru September](https://zarowsky.net/exhibition-at-teresa-seatons-studio-continues-thru-september/) - Today 9:18pm Margaret Lindsay Holton HI Micheal, Just have to say I popped into your exhibit at Teresa Seaton's place yesterday, and was TOTALLY blown away. Just LOVE your work, really do, especially the landscapes. Had to say so!! Keep at it! You're going to go far kiddo. Very best, Lindsay thanks Lindsay / - [early autumn pond impressions](https://zarowsky.net/early-autumn-pond-impressions/) - temptations for short term memory ...mornings lite so bright you can't see into the afternoon....... 'pine reflections / sherborne lake access rd' 18" x 12" mixed media (watercolour / acrylic pained directly on gessoed birch panel) evolving style ....a day you couldn't find anywhere else...... dan lake - [Zarowsky painting included in 12th International Biennial in Mexico](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-painting-included-in-12th-international-biennial-in-mexico/) - With thanks to the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, My watercolour, 'Luxembourg Gardens, Paris', (30” x 22” / watercolour on arches paper) is on its way to Mexico City for the upcoming Mexico Biennial at the MUSEO NACIONAL De La ACUARELA This is the 12th Internatioanl Biennial. Dec 18/2016 - Feb 12/2017 - [bit of center page ink](https://zarowsky.net/bit-of-center-page-ink/) - not often get to post 2 things in one day my show got mentioned in 'at the arts' in todays' Hamilton Spectator; sooooooooooooo..... You are cordially invited to the Opening Reception of A Fresh Dialogue on the Canadian Landscape An exhibition of new work by Micheal Zarowsky this Sunday September 11th, 2016 1 pm - [Zarowsky Exhibition at Teresa Seaton's Studio & Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-exhibition-at-teresa-seatons-studio-gallery/) - Micheal Zarowsky Acrylics on gessoed birch panels. A fresh original dialogue on the Canadian landscape. Artist Reception • Sun Sept 11th 2016 • 1 pm – 4 pm Exhibition runs August 7th - September 30th 2016 Teresa Seaton Studio & Gallery 654 Spring Gardens Rd. Burlington ON L7T 1J1 Canadian painter working in acrylic, watercolour - [new water patterns](https://zarowsky.net/6892-2/) - timeless drift to the days autumn on the pond 27 23 3/4" x 35 3/4" - [Cdn Art Collective at Arta Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/cdn-art-collective-at-arta-gallery/) - Taking part in the Canadian Art Collecitive Exhibition at the Arta Gallery Sept 27 - Oct 11, 2016 September 27 - October 11, 2016 Canadian Art Collective - New Work Stewart Jones, Peter Rotter, David Lidbetter, Laurie De Camillis, Julie Desmarais and Michael Zarowsky Opening Reception: Sept. 29th, 6 - 9pm Arta Gallery is proud - [Taking Part in the Terra Exhibition at The Illumine Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/taking-part-in-the-terra-exhibition-at-the-illumine-gallery/) - Tracy Root kindly invited me to be a part of the "Terra" exhibition in October at the Illumine Gallery in St Thomas TERRA Opening Reception Saturday October 1, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. TERRA runs from Saturday October 1 - Saturday November 12 (3rd row middle image features our 'autumn on the pond / grasses' 32" - [fresh dialogue on Canadian Landscape](https://zarowsky.net/fresh-dialogue-on-canadian-landscape/) - You are cordially invited to come by Teresa Seaton’s Studio in Burlington ON at 654 Spring Gardens Rd; (right opposite the Royal Botanical Gardens) to the new Zarowsky Exhibition “ fresh dialogue on Canadian Landscape” Exhibition is set up and in fact open early as of thursday August 4th, 2016 Teresa Seaton will be showing - [Zarowsky promo at Cavan](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-promo-at-cavan/) - Cavan Art Gallery features Micheal Zarowsky Paintings this week http://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collectibles/peterborough/cavan-art-gallery-features-micheal-zarowsky-paintings-this-week/1184728623?siteLocale=en_CA&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialbuttons Micheal Zarowsky is an accomplished painter of the most exquisite detailed and sunlit landscapes of the near north area, Muskoka Parry Sound, Kawarthas. If you don't come and see this you are truly missing out on something memorable. By the way, have - [little bit of ink](https://zarowsky.net/little-bit-of-ink/) - Valelrie at Cavan Art Gallery sent over a newspaper clipping from the Quinte Arts Newspaper with some quinte-ssential news that, as well as a story on the gallery, she was able to promote one of my paintings via / in the latest copy of the paper. ' late summer beaver pond georgian bay 18" x - [archive weekend](https://zarowsky.net/archive-weekend/) - what began as a simple post of an earlier work sent by a client from 30 years ago, has taken over the weekend; not a bad thing; there are no bad things really; most of these pieces we have no records of as we never had the loot for film back then; what has become - [more calls home](https://zarowsky.net/more-calls-home/) - got sent a few more images of our work looking good, hanging around in other peoples homes; Teanna's 'pine' (50" x 48" mixed media) Chandra and Derek's 'autumn on the pond' (38" x 36 mixed media) Chandra & Derek's 'Blue Georgian Bay' (18" x 12" mixed media) - [post city hall exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/post-city-hall-exhibition/) - clients stopped by at the city hall show to let us know they continue to enjoy a painting they got from us back in 1987...and i pestered them to send over a jpeg..... birches, late october, divine lake, 20" x 16" watercolour on arches paper 1987 - [autumn colour fuss](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-colour-fuss/) - sheltered daylight outlining an understanding of solitude... wind scattered yellows 24 1/4" x 13 1/8" mixed media trees hiding in the forest 34" x 26" mixed media - [Pining](https://zarowsky.net/pining/) - several new pines from up red bay, lake huron an artist friend, Lorraine Roy, wrote in: "For me,it's the negative space in these Pine pieces. It makes me feel like I'm seeing them from the sky, an airy feeling. I like best the ones that have a bit of rust and gold, like sunlight." - [the horizon](https://zarowsky.net/the-horizon/) - with a view out towards......... the horizon / left alone arrangements speaking of previous gatherings.. the horizon 1 12" x 24" mixed media / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel) the horizon 2 13.5" x 24" mixed media / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch - [lost n found in waddingtons auction](https://zarowsky.net/lost-n-found-in-waddingtons-auction/) - a friend let me know that 2 of my earlier works (everything done before yesterday) are up for bids at Waddingtons 'off the wall' auction july 4th - 7th, 2016 don't really care for these resell auctions as they do nothing to establish / promote any artist with respect to his / her prices rather - [autumn pond series](https://zarowsky.net/autumn-pond-series/) - after the irises have bloomed and gone / saugeen river autumn on the pond 18 - 43" x 33" mixed media autumn on the pond 19 43" x 32" mixed media autumn on the pond 12 - 32" x - [at toronto outdoor art exhibition july 8 - 10](https://zarowsky.net/at-toronto-outdoor-art-exhibition-july-8-10/) - will be selling new work at toronto outdoor art exhibition this weekend; july 8 - 10, 2016 - [paintings calling home](https://zarowsky.net/paintings-calling-home/) - Micheal Zarowsky June 17 at 5:07pm · every so often one of my paintings calls home just to let me know how they are doing ' infinity rings coopers falls' 28x44 Hi Michael and Wendy, Hope all is well with you two. We finally got around to setting up our dining area and took a - [drift of daylight](https://zarowsky.net/drift-of-daylight/) - 2 new infinity rings after working a bunch of small sketches of waterlilies, wild rice & water patterns....... infinity rings 120 24" x 36" mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel) infinity rings 121 22" x 48" mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on - [New work at Cavan Art Gallery](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-cavan-art-gallery/) - It is the beginning of June and i now have New work at Valerie Kent's Cavan Art Gallery in Cavan Ontario http://cavanartgallery.com/gallery/ (up in top right hand corner is a blue square with 3 horizontal white bars with in it; click on that to open a link to the artists; or click on both links - [northern outpost](https://zarowsky.net/northern-outpost/) - Showing / selling 5 new pieces with / at Laura Culic's Black Spruce Artworks in Maynooth Black•Spruce•Art•Works: my Studio-Gallery in Maynooth - Laura Culic Art ::: Toronto I’m now well settled in to my new studio and gallery; Black Spruce Art Works, in the lovely little town of Maynooth. Maynooth is a vibrant, diverse and - [lily ponds n comments](https://zarowsky.net/lily-ponds-n-comments/) - lilies with infinity ring / beaver pond 12" x 12" mixed media Jane Moylan Amazing. I'm not sure, but I think I'm seeing your style change into a more impressionistic style? I honestly think you could be one of the great Group of Seven.... Like · Reply · 7 hrs Micheal Zarowsky Morning Jane, - [lido bikes up for bids on ARTBOMBDAILY.COM](https://zarowsky.net/lido-bikes-up-for-bids-on-artbombdaily-com/) - my painting lido bikes (145) 16" x 16" x 1 3/4" mixed media is up for bids today on Artbomb http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3192 Save Save - [pulling a Bonnard](https://zarowsky.net/pulling-a-bonnard/) - recently exchanged some work / took back a number of paintings from a gallery and gave them some new pieces to try and sell; getting the work back after not having seen the returned work for a few months was like seeing it for the first time (and we normally put work aside and do - [a little bit of Venice at Libby's Summer Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/a-little-bit-of-venice-at-libbys-summer-exhibition/) - have a Venice piece in Libby's 'Summer Selection' Exhibition June 9 - 25, 2016 463 King St., East, Toronto - [post artbomb auction thanks](https://zarowsky.net/post-artbomb-auction-thanks/) - a big thank you to the person who liked my abstract painting, 'water lilies n wild rice' (in yesterdays online auction at Artbomb Daily) enough to take it home with them. another available in that series waterlilies n wild rice 6 18" x 17" mixed media - [water lilies up for bids on Artbomb](https://zarowsky.net/water-lilies-up-for-bids-on-artbomb/) - late to the party; just woke up to the fact that my painting from georgian bay, waterlilies n' wild rice 20" x 20" x 1 3/4" is up for bids / available in the ARTBOMB online auction today http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3124 - [Zarowsky: new work at Riverdale Artwalk this weekend](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-new-work-at-riverdale-artwalk-this-weekendend/) - Micheal Zarowsky: New Work: Booth 37 At Riverdale Art Walk this coming weekend; Sat June 4th & Sun June 5th, 2016 11 am to 6 pm Jimmie Simpson Park / Queen St., East near Logan Toronto - [close to the end of the opening](https://zarowsky.net/close-to-the-end-of-the-opening/) - New Blog Post for Gallery On The Lake https://t.co/43n5meiLyG (something i have never seen before is how the Kawarthas at least, were totally blanketed with flowering lilacs this weekend; there were entire fields full of lilac trees in bloom; both sides of the sideroads were lined with them; i may have to rush out and - [New work at Gallery on The Lake](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-gallery-on-the-lake/) - my exhibition of latest explorations of water and light thru paintings is on and running, Saturday May 28th thru to June 24th, 2016 Gallery on The Lake, 65 Gallery on the Lake Rd in Buckhorn Ontario. 705-657-1108 info@galleryonthelake.com www.galleryonthelake.com - [Zarowsky Exhibition at Gallery on the Lake](https://zarowsky.net/zarowsky-exhibition-at-gallery-on-the-lake/) - Cordially invite you to the opening of my exhibition of new work this coming weekend Saturday May 28th, 2016 1 pm to 4 pm at Ester’s Gallery on The Lake, in Buckhorn Ontario exhibition continues thru June 24th, 2016 - [geranium balcony up for bids on a rainy friday](https://zarowsky.net/geranium-balcony-up-for-bids-on-a-rainy-friday/) - my painting from the grand canal in venice with the green awnings is up / available in the ARTBOMB online auction today geranium window / grand canal / venice watercolour on arches paper 11" x 15" / 19" x 21" framed http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/3093 another geranium balcony - [New work at Libby's Gallery Choice Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-libbys-gallery-choice-exhibition/) - Have 2 new works at the Gallery Choice Exhibition at John Libby's Gallery, at 463 King St., East, Toronto Opening Reception: Thursday May 12th, 7 - 9:30 pm Exhibition continues thru June 4th, 2016 - [scary as halloween](https://zarowsky.net/scary-as-halloween/) - getting downright scary now! spent the day at the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour annual AGM meeting today and got elected onto the board of directors of the society; certainly there is such a thing as becoming way way too respectable! probably crossed the line here... - [water rhythms](https://zarowsky.net/water-rhythms-2/) - ..falling thru silence past changing moods water... 2 new works + 1 'airiness of water rhythms' 10" x 12" mixed media 'water lilies on a day full of deep reflections' (2) 16" x 20" mixed media 'water lilies on a day full of deep - [elected a member of SCA today](https://zarowsky.net/elected-a-member-of-sca-today/) - .as far as birthday gifts go, just received an email letting me know that I have been accepted as an Elected member of the SCA...the Society of Canadian Artists.... http://www.societyofcanadianartists.com/content/home/home.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 - [late winter](https://zarowsky.net/late-winter-2/) - 'Sunlit shadows for a sheltered morning' 16" x 20" mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel) daylight stealing across a trail thru a clear winters day 24" x 24" mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel) - [new water](https://zarowsky.net/new-water/) - new fall ideas, perhaps finding their way into the kingsway show, perhaps not; heading south 8" x 8" mixed media we talk about seasons, as if they repeated, came back, but they do not...each comes alive, becomes its' own... spring nervous to be alone, this year dragging winter - [kingsway - lambton show saturday april 9th](https://zarowsky.net/kingsway-lambton-show-saturday-april-9th/) - taking part in / selling terrific new work for / at the 19th Annual Kingsway Lambton Art Show & Sale this Saturday April 9th, 2016 10 am to 4 pm Kingsway Lambton United Church 85 The Kingsway, Toronto www.kingswaylambton.ca/artshow - [riverdale artwalk preview show](https://zarowsky.net/riverdale-artwalk-preview-show/) - i am part of / have 3 pieces on display / for sale / at a preview exhibition sampling of the work that will be at this years' Art Walk': The Riverdale Art Walk at Jimmie Simpson Park is June 4-5th 2016 the preview is being held in the event room at the Amsterdam Brewing - [artbomb auction follow up](https://zarowsky.net/artbomb-auction-follow-up/) - it's like xmas all over again,waking up to find out yesterdays' artbomb offering had lots of interest and sold. A big Thank You to the person who liked it enough to outbid everyone and take it home. for everyone else who was interested; have another Parisian interior available, not on artbomb or anything, back here - [red stripes in auction on ArtbombDaily today](https://zarowsky.net/red-stripes-in-auction-on-artbombdaily-today/) - my painting, "red stripes, paris" 13" x 18 " watercolour on arches paper is up / available in the ARTBOMB online auction today http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/2966 - [touching the ends of the universe](https://zarowsky.net/touching-the-ends-of-the-universe/) - i find an emptiness to the north come october that allows one to feel the vastness / stretch out n touch the ends of the universe emptiness of late october.....an angst, stretching across past the ends of the universe ' wind scattered colours' 22" x 16" mixed media - [colours of spring exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/colours-of-spring-exhibition/) - am part of the Artists Network 'Colours of Spring Exhibition' at The Art Square Gallery, 334 Dundas West, Toronto, ON, M5T 1G5, located just across AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario from March 21 to April 3, 2016 Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 23 from 7:00 – 10pm (Free admission at the AGO that - [late winter](https://zarowsky.net/late-winter/) - winter almost never made the scene this year; almost; the end of february was absolute magic; a tad on the fresh side being -29 and there not being all that much snow that one could roll around in it, or even need snowshoes, but none the less it is forgiven for making me wait and - ['Sunstripes' in Artbomb Online Auction today](https://zarowsky.net/sunstripes-in-artbomb-online-auction-today/) - my painting, " Sunstriped drift of daylight along a stretch of treelined trail" is up / available in the ARTBOMB online auction today " Sunstriped drift of daylight along a stretch of treelined trail" 18" x 24" mixed media http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/2910 - [a day late, still better than a day old latte](https://zarowsky.net/a-day-late-still-better-than-a-day-old-latte/) - okay i have no psychic powers whatsoever.....totally missed being aware / knowing / being clued in that lido bikes was up for auction on Artbomb yesterday...... still..... ......am sending out A BIG THANK YOU to the person who liked and took home, my 'lido bikes 143'' painting offered up yesterday on Artbomb. .a quickly scrambled - [Carousel painting in Watercolour Society Exhibition](https://zarowsky.net/carousel-painting-in-watercolour-society-exhibition/) - My entry 'Carousel, Arles', was accepted into the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour "Water Reflections" Juried Exhibition 2016 Exhibition runs March 2nd thru to the 30th, at the Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 The West mall (at Burnhamthorpe) Exhibition Reception & Awards Ceremony: Sunday March 20th, 2016, 2 - 4 pm. Carousel Arles, 40" - [Paris up for bids on Artbomb](https://zarowsky.net/paris-up-for-bids-on-artbomb/) - my painting is up / available in the ARTBOMB online auction today "Rue Temple, Paris, passageway between streets thru the blue door" 18" x 12" (framed at 26" x 20") watercolour on arches paper current bid is 450.00 http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/2882 - [cut flowers for sale on artbomb](https://zarowsky.net/6230-2/) - my painting is up / available in the ARTBOMB online auction today cut flowers Japanese Cherry 18" x 12" mixed media - [Lido bikes up for auction on Artbomb](https://zarowsky.net/lido-bikes-up-for-auction-on-artbomb/) - .....my painting of 'lido bikes' is up for auction on Artbomb today, Friday Feb 12th lido bikes 139 - 18" x 12" mixed media http://www.artbombdaily.com/details/2735 - [sunlit distractions in backwaters of eternity](https://zarowsky.net/sunlit-distractions-in-backwaters-of-eternity/) - ...dark waters.....understanding drifting and scattered to the winds... ......new autumn pond paintings...... "deep autumn yellows reflecting, beaver pond, Dan lake" 18" x 12" mixed media autumn pond with red reflection / brunel rd, 16" x 19.5" watercolour on arches paper beaver - [thanks for yesterdays](https://zarowsky.net/thanks-for-yesterdays/) - A BIG THANK YOU to the person who took home my winter piece offered up yesterday on Artbomb. in looking to see how yesterday went, found this exchange on FB about the same work and as it speaks nicely of me, being such a attention seeking slut, could not help myself but repost it here..... - [New work at Galerie Soutana](https://zarowsky.net/new-work-at-galerie-soutana/) - Susan and Denis at Galerie Soutana in Mont.Tremblant are displaying and selling some new pieces they picked out and we sent over; drop - ['winter trail' up for bids on ArtbombDaily.com](https://zarowsky.net/winter-trail-up-for-bids-on-artbombdaily-com/) - ArtbombDaily.com is featuring my painting 'path thru the scattered morning sunlight reaching across internal distances past a clear winters day' 14" x 14" mixed media in its online auction this coming Wednesday Feb 3rd, 2016 and another winter trail, - 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[stream](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/stream/) - [abstraction](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/abstraction/) - [birches floating](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/birches-floating/) - [birch reflections](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/birch-reflections/) - [pinetops](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/pinetops/) - [georogian bay](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/georogian-bay/) - [canadian icons](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/canadian-icons/) - [carousels](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/carousels/) - [rocking horses](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/rocking-horses/) - [france](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/france/) - [magical rides](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/magical-rides/) - [boats](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/boats/) - [dories](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/dories/) - [bicycles venice lido sunny day watercolour acrylic mixed media paintings fine art chaos](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/bicycles-venice-lido-sunny-day-watercolour-acrylic-mixed-media-paintings-fine-art-chaos/) - [nfinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/nfinity-rings/) - [paris](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/paris/) - [eiffel](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/eiffel/) - [beaver pond](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/beaver-pond/) - [wetland](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/wetland/) - [watercoclour](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/watercoclour/) - [brunel road pond](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/brunel-road-pond/) - [reflections](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/reflections/) - [autumn](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/autumn/) - [pond](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/pond/) - [open stream](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/open-stream/) - [acrrylic](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/acrrylic/) - [landscape](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/landscape/) - [canadian art](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/canadian-art/) - [forest](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/forest/) - [cdn art](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/cdn-art/) - [canadian winter](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/canadian-winter/) - [landscape forest](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/landscape-forest/) - [shadows](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/shadows/) - [muskoka](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/muskoka/) - [water](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/water/) - [ponds](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/ponds/) - [rain](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/rain/) - [trail](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/trail/) - [east coast](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/east-coast/) - [watecolours](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/watecolours/) - [acrylics](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/acrylics/) - [ocean](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/ocean/) - [docks](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/docks/) - [shoreline](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/shoreline/) - [snowfall pines](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/snowfall-pines/) - [southwood road](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/southwood-road/) - [wtercolour](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/wtercolour/) - [snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/snowfall/) - [fall colours](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/fall-colours/) - [georgian bay](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/georgian-bay/) - [canadianlandscape](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/canadianlandscape/) - [hardy lake](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/hardy-lake/) - [speckleld light](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/speckleld-light/) - [watercolour pond wetland autumn colours leaves](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/watercolour-pond-wetland-autumn-colours-leaves/) - [streams](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/streams/) - [water patterns](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/water-patterns/) - [infinity rings](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/infinity-rings/) - [mccrae lake](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/mccrae-lake/) - [mcdonald lake](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/mcdonald-lake/) - [laneways](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/laneways/) - [original watercolour](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/original-watercolour/) - [hardylake](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/hardylake/) - [overngiht snowfall](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/overngiht-snowfall/) - [snusslight](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/snusslight/) - [water lilies](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/water-lilies/) - [water plants](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/water-plants/) - [pickerel weed](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/pickerel-weed/) - [lilies](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/lilies/) - [kawarthas](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/kawarthas/) - [halliburton](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/halliburton/) - [screen](https://zarowsky.net/ngg_tag/screen/)