LOIS CRAWFORD

About the Artist

Lois Crawford has been exhibiting her award-winning work for over 25 years in group and juried shows, and in solo shows for 12 years.  In May 2005 Lois’ oils were shown in an invitational group exhibition in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, to celebrate the city-twinning of Burlington and Apeldoorn. In the Fall of 2004 her work was exhibited in the group exhibition,” Connections”, in Itabashi, Japan, and next year 2008, will hold her sixth solo show in the Fireside Lounge at the Burlington Art Centre.

Lois has devoted more than 20 years, as an arts journalist, to writing reviews and profiles, and conducting interviews with such artists as, Harold Town, Chris Bacon, Gordon Perrier, Kosso Eloul, Rita Latendre, Walter Hickling, Norval Morriseau, Robert Bateman, Kimiko Koyanagi and Ann Kloppenburg.

She also co-curated an exhibition by Millicent Penney, Newfoundland artist, for the Perry Gallery at the BAC, and compiled a History of the Burlington Fine Arts Association for the group’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition catalogue.

Lois’s work can be found at Art Etc. and Art Rental at the Burlington Art Centre, and Art Rental at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, also at Trendz Restaurant on Brant St, Burlington, at the BAC Annual Art Auction, the Oakville Art Auction, Amnesty International, Hamilton & Region Arts Council Auctions, at The Dundas Valley School of Art Auctions, as well as in the Mississauga and Burlington Rotary Club fund-raisers.

In addition to receiving awards for her painting, in December 2004 Lois was awarded a Burlington Fine Arts Association Life Membership for over 30 years of extraordinary voluntary contributions, and is the holder of both the Burlington Art Centre Gold & Silver Awards, as well as a Volunteer Award from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism & Recreation.

Artist's Statement

For the last two years I have been exploring abstract form and colour in both oils and acrylic , inspired by the Colourfield painters and Abstract-Expressionists. Although I continue to be inspired by nature,enjoying plein air painting and sketching, still-life, and figures in an expressive manner, I now find a new challenge in fully exploring colour, form, gesture and line through non-objective painting.

Lois Crawford

lois.crawford@sympatico.ca