Erika News April 13, 2025 16 Mar 2025 People’s Choice Award for Spring Fling 2025 Delighted and humbled that with my "Mermaid Bliss" and "Timeless Beauty" paintings, I have won the P... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 02 Jul 2024 My Artistic Journey I am a self-taught artist. My artistic journey is a progression through various media, each with it... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 05 Feb 2024 New “Altered Realism” Series This year, I have started a new series of oil paintings I call “Altered Realism”. By the juxtapositi... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 25 Jun 2023 New “Waterworks” Series I am currently working on a series of water-themed oil paintings. My aim is to evoke a sense of cal... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 29 Mar 2023 First Place Award for my ‘Thinking Cap” I won my second award this year, this time a First Place Award for works on paper at Arteast's Jurie... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 20 Mar 2023 5 For The Wall at the Atomic Rooster I will be exhibiting five of my works at the Atomic Rooster, 303 Bank St, from March 27 to May 8, 20... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 10 Mar 2023 Arteast Awards Exhibition 2023 Happy to participate in Arteasts' Awards Exhibition 2023, taking place between March 12 and May 31,... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 05 Mar 2023 Skin Tone Pastel Pencils I recently ordered these Chinese pastel pencils from Wish.com, they seemed to be too good to be true... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 20 Feb 2023 Honourable Mention Award at WCAS’ Spring Fling 2023 Thrilled to say that my pastel artwork Holding On To The Dream has received one of the three Honour... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 10 Feb 2023 Is a self-taught artist less of an artist? I am a self-taught artist, and as such, I am somewhat intimidated by the so called “professional” ar... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 02 Feb 2023 Big & Small Show at Foyer Gallery I have these 2 pastel paintings in the current Big & Small show at the Foyer Gallery. Visit us ... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 30 Dec 2022 Saints, Sinners & Mythical Beast Show at Atomic Rooster My pastel painting TOO SEXY FOR MY HAT, will be a part of this art show at the Atomic Rooster, 303 ... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 27 Dec 2022 Graceful Masculine Series I decided to do some works in series, with the same theme, look and feel. Along with my Graceful Fe... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 27 Dec 2022 Graceful Feminine Series In early 2022, I started a series of pastel paintings with the Graceful Feminine theme, something I ... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 21 Oct 2022 Festival show at St Laurent Complex I am happy to be part of "Festival", a four-artist group show organized by Arteast Ottawa at the St.... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 21 Oct 2022 Fall Transitions at Shenkman Art Centre "Fall Transitions", an Arteast Ottawa group show opened at the Shenkman Arts Centre on the Promenade... Continue reading
Erika News August 21, 2022 07 Aug 2022 Going back to basics Following a few years of experimentation with different styles and media, I am returning to what I l... Continue reading
Erika News June 7, 2023 29 May 2021 Workshop with Martinho Correia: Caravaggio’s Late Method Recently, I had the opportunity to take Martinho Correia’s workshop on Caravaggios’ late method of p... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 27 Mar 2021 Portrait accepted into Portraits of Resilience online exhibit I am thrilled that my graphite and charcoal pencil portrait Still Looking Ahead....has been accepted... Continue reading
Erika News March 8, 2021 30 Sep 2020 Resin Heart – An ideal gift for your loved one I am launching a line of resin hearts for the opening of my online store (which will happen soon, ho... Continue reading
Erika News September 6, 2020 21 Jul 2020 New painting in the works After almost four months of being absent from artistic endevours, I decided today to start on a pain... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 03 Feb 2020 Colourful Impressions at St. Laurent Complex I am fortunate to have been included in the Colourful Impressions exhibit at the St. Laurent Complex... Continue reading
Erika News September 11, 2020 25 Jun 2019 Mad about resin Recently, I started coating some of my paintings with epoxy resin. I must admit, I am hooked! I don’... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 27 Oct 2018 Gallery106 Exhibit in Arprior Pop-up gallery Gallery106 in Arprior, ON is about to open its doors on November 3rd. What started i... Continue reading
Erika News September 11, 2020 17 Oct 2018 New Gallery 106 in Arnprior, ON I am thrilled to take part in this 20-artist joint venture to open up a pop-up gallery in Arprior, O... Continue reading
Erika News December 19, 2018 26 Sep 2018 3rd Prize at Arteast’s AAE 2018 I am excited to report that my pastel painting "Morning Bath at the Lake" has been awarded 3rd Priz... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 05 Sep 2018 “Purely Pastel” Solo Show Just finished hanging my second current solo show at Café 111 located withing the Ottawa City Hall a... Continue reading
Erika News April 13, 2025 04 Sep 2018 “Beyond The Ordinary” Solo Show My current exhibition "Beyond the Ordinary" at Lunasole Resto-bar exhibits 10 of my acrylic mixed me... Continue reading
Erika News December 19, 2018 04 Sep 2018 My new set of pastel pencils I am excited to try out my new Stabilo CarbOthello pastel pencils I just got! So far, I've been usin... Continue reading
Erika News March 22, 2022 03 Aug 2018 Spiked up my vase As I was cleaning my house yesterday, I noticed that one of my vases that used to be white had acqui... Continue reading