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INSTRUCTORS - ART CLASSES TORONTO
Maria Zelska
Maria Zelska is Co-owner and the Head instructor. Currently instructing Drawing Laboratory, Anatomy, Skeleton Study, and Life Drawing workshops. She received her M.F.A and B.A at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. A practicing artist for over 20 years Maria's work has been displayed Internationally in Poland, Germany, Spain, Norway, and Canada. As an art educator Maria is dedicated to designing step-by-step fine art workshops that enhance creative abilities of all participants, whether they are beginners or professional artists. Maria specializes in bronze in the lost wax technique as well as in terracotta creating sculpture in base relief and in the round. Her work is a range of contemporary representational sculpture and organic abstract forms. Maria specializes in drawing and sculpting and has the exceptional ability to teach how to structure a representational drawing to realize it as a three dimensional form. She teaches animation, architecture, drawing towards sculpture, and painting.olios for young students looking for career in art field.Art Classes Toronto
Anna Zelska
Anna Zelska is the Co-Owner/Director and Instructor. She teaches Drawing, Oil Painting, Cartooning, Portfolio Preparation and Puppet Theatre. Anna Zelska received her H.B.A at University of Toronto in Art History, History, and Visual Studies. For the past four years Anna has developed workshops and taught artists of all ages specializing in drawing and painting fundamentals for youth and adults. Educational and fun her workshops incorporate art history and art theory as tools to contemporary art practice, alongside precisely prepared booklets of various historical styles and techniques. Her art revolves around themes of nature and ambiguity. She works in various media including drawing, painting, installation and performance.Art Classes Toronto
Prof. Maria Targonska
Our guest teacher (for summer workshops).
Maria Targonska graduated at the Department of Painting of Fine Arts in Gdansk at prof Kazimierz Sramkiewicz's class. She has been woking at the Department since 1981, as a professor since 2003.
Marek Zelski
Marek Zelski is the Co-owner and Founder he teaches private and semi-private workshops in drawing, painting, and graphics. He received his B.A and M.A. at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. He specializes in oil painting on canvas and wood using the layered technique. Fluent and confident with drawing and painting his wide range of art subjects are represented in realism,hyperrealism and surrealism. He is particularly concerned with creating epochs of his own creation; imaginary landscapes, still lifes, botanical life, architecture, as well as various creatures. Zelski has been a displaying artist for over 25 years. His works have been shown in Poland, Norway, Japan, Belgium, France, and Canada. Art Classes Toronto
Kenneth Herdy
Over the past twenty years Kenneth Herdy has been practicing multidisciplinary art. With an extensive focus on Photography the Toronto born artist has developed and produced several large bodies of self-directed work. Kenneth Herdys interest in history, science and our "path" have led him to a critical inquiry of the concepts and issues associated with the "self" in our post-modern society (ALANTIC c.1991). He has also explored the abuse of the environment by the military industrial complex (ASSEMBLY LINEc.1999). In 2002, he spent 8 months in Japan traveling through the country with a 4x5 camera photographing the immense industrial giants that compete with nature (MOTHRA c.2002). During the fall of 2003, he walked 827 km from the English Channel to the Swiss border following the trench lines from the First World War. During the walk, he documented the scars made in the landscape, and produced a collection of large format works that question the ideologies that led to such conflicts. He is working on an ongoing project titled “The Extinction Series” following the capture and demise of various animal species. His visual influences include Classical and Flemish painting, military technology, and urban environments. Kenneth Herdys work has been in various regional and international exhibits currently is in the Polaroid International Show, which is traveling throughout international galleries world wide as represented in the Taschen book "The Polaroid Book" (isbn 3-8228-3072-0). The artist was chosen and sponsored by Polaroid Canada (1998-2000), and Polaroid International (1997-2000). You can also find his work in various public and private collections.Art Classes Toronto
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