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Claire Kerwin - "Oeuvre I" - ***SOLD***
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Claire Kerwin - "Oeuvre II" - ***SOLD***
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Claire Kerwin - "Oeuvre III" - ***SOLD***
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Claire Kerwin, 1919 - 2005
Claire Kerwin was a Belgian-born artist who moved to Canada in 1947 at the age of 28. Her Toronto studio was on Monteith Road. Her artistic style combined elements of urban life and nature, working with several mediums including acrylics, collages, metalworking, mixed media, painting, pastels, graphics, and printmaking.
She acquired materials like old copper and lead from parking lots and gutters. She pleated the lead, hammered it, then fluted it and moulded it into shapes she desired and worked with these materials in her printmaking. She credits the environment around her for giving her all these different materials saying, "Nature has done all the work for me". This printmaking method garnered attention in Canada and around the world.
Kerwin was a member of five different Canadian art societies including the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. Her works were exhibited in public and private collections in Canada as well as internationally in Belgium, France, England, Brazil, and the United States.
The Art Gallery of Northumberland, near her her country home, houses several of her works in their permanent collection.
Kerwin was awarded a Medal of Service from the City of Toronto for her contributions to the local art scene.
She acquired materials like old copper and lead from parking lots and gutters. She pleated the lead, hammered it, then fluted it and moulded it into shapes she desired and worked with these materials in her printmaking. She credits the environment around her for giving her all these different materials saying, "Nature has done all the work for me". This printmaking method garnered attention in Canada and around the world.
Kerwin was a member of five different Canadian art societies including the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. Her works were exhibited in public and private collections in Canada as well as internationally in Belgium, France, England, Brazil, and the United States.
The Art Gallery of Northumberland, near her her country home, houses several of her works in their permanent collection.
Kerwin was awarded a Medal of Service from the City of Toronto for her contributions to the local art scene.