Artist for Hire
Are you having a wedding? Hosting an AGM or a Corporate gathering? Make it meaningful and interesting.
I live in Lanark County near Carleton Place, Perth and Smiths Falls and within an hour of Ottawa. I am available for live painting events for large gatherings. Give your attendees/participants at your next event a unique live experience where they can watch a work of art being made from start to finish, then auctioned off.
At the event, I would do a live painting session, and the resulting painting can be won through a benefit draw during the event. The live painting event is a wonderful way for an organization to raise funds or support a charitable cause.
Throughout the evening, my art table is publicly accessible so the group can watch the progress of the work as it develops. For a set fee, I will complete an art piece in the agreed upon timeframe. The finished artwork is signed, framed and certified at the end of the painting session so the winner can go home with a lovely piece of fine art that's ready to hang.
If the location's technology allows it, a camera can be placed over the painting and progress can be watched on local tv screens at the venue.
This painting titled, "Midnight Dancing in the Garden of Eden" was created at the Oct 2022 Gala for Société De Développement Communautaire De Prescott-Russell Community Development Corporation.
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EMAIL: colleengrayart@gmail.com
Cooperation Canada commissioned Colleen Gray to create a unique and powerful piece of artwork that would convey the strength of how a single person's actions can make an impact on the world. This work was created over a 3-day span at the National Art Centre.
It was painted onsite with ink on 24x36" synthetic paper, and was inspired by the impressive international gathering of brilliant minds and beautiful hearts who came together for the 2024 International Cooperation Futures.
The original artwork will be auctioned off by Cooperation Canada with proceeds benefiting Minwashin Lodge in Ottawa.
Income generated from the sale of these beautiful prints will help Art for Aid to put much needed program supplies into remote Indigenous schools in 2025.
To learn more about Art for Aid please visit www.artforaid.ca. We are grateful to Cooperation Canada for allowing us to use this work to
support our efforts.
Title: The Light
Story: A woman connects to the universe through the fire she carries in her heart. She seeks the wisdom of the stars. Cassiopeia shines brightly from her dark sky blanket acknowledging her steering flame of hope. Beneath Cassiopeia, Perseus balances the feminine energy with his strength.
The woman is seated at the precarious edge of a rock shelf - a suggestion of how challenging it can be to light a path to positive change.
The absence of an obvious path to her place on the cliff edge might make one wonder how she came to be there; it is a question many women have asked themselves.
As she lifts her flame seeking a way forward, the world below her continues as it always has, regardless of where we find ourselves in it.
Artist's note: The constellations painted in this artwork are accurately placed in the north eastern sky as they appear in the month of October in Ottawa.
"The Light"
24x36" ink on synthetic paper
Commissioned Work
October 2023, National Art Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
Limited Edition Prints are available in 2 sizes through www.artforaidshop.ca with proceeds supporting The Art for Aid Project's mission to put art supplies into resource-challenged Indigenous schools in Canada.