Meet Designer & Artist Ana Jurpik
We are all born with a purpose. My purpose is to create. I have been creating web sites now for over a dozen years. I have been creating art for over… well, lets just say since I can remember.
My passion is making clients happy and feeling pride in my work. With a background in fine art, I have a very good understanding on how to use colour, composition, and adding all the elements that can turn a web site into a “work of art”. For many years I worked as a professional Graphic Designer. Now I find contentment in having the freedom to be my own Art Director.
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Select Group Shows:
Galleria via di Visiale, Spoleto, Italy
Varley Art Gallery Fine Art Auction, Unionville, Ontario
J. D. Carrier Gallery, North York, Ontario
Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, Ontario
McMichael Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Arts & Letters Club, Toronto, Ontario
McKay Arts Centre, Unionville
Markham Village Art Show (Markham Arts Council)
Legislative Assembly in Iqaluit, Nunavut
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Wesburn Manor Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario
Linkway Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Gallery on the Grand, Waterloo, Ontario
Georgina Arts Centre/Gallery, Georgina, Ontario
Win Henstock Gallery, Oakville, Ontario
Collections:
Private Collections in the U.S. and Canada
Permanent Collection in the Vancouver Maritime Museum
Corporate Collection at Elmer’s Products, Inc. and Steam Whistle Brewing
Permanent Collection in Spoleto’s City Hall, Italy
Biography
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~ Thomas Merton
Ana was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and raised in the Seattle area of Washington State. She soon discovered the ability to render at a very young age. She now resides in the lovely community of 7 Oaks in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
Throughout Ana’s adulthood, she searched out various ways of expression, enrolling in classes ranging from still life to life drawing, and experimenting with the use of mediums from paints to sculpture to music. Ana is currently the lead singer and lyricist with the Toronto based Indie band “KRoVE“. Her music is as diverse as her paintings. She is constantly exploring different styles and methods. “Art comes not from ego, but from being open to inspiration. It is truly magic this thing we call creativity”, she says.
She was one of the 25 selected Canadian “Arctic Quest” artists who voyaged to paint Greenland and the High Arctic in the summer of 2006, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first explorer to complete this journey. It was glorious to see the massive icebergs, but what truly moved her was walking along the shores of Beechy Island and witnessing the relics of the ship “Mary”. In 1926 the Mary was still recognizable, in the 1980’s the mast was still standing, and in 2006, Ana painted the lonely mast. The oil paintings’ home “Mary’s Mast” is now in the Permanent Collection at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Her work is also located in private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States and at the City of Spoletos’ collection in Italy.
Mary’s Mast, Beechey Island
16″ x 20″ oil
When no word was heard from Franklin’s 1845 expedition, a search party was sent out to find him in 1849, with no luck. Franklin’s old friend, at 72 years of age, Sir John Ross joined the second group of searchers in 1850. He brought along his 12 ton yacht Mary. This group of searchers, which included about 8 ships, discovered the remains of the Franklin encampment on Beechey Island. Before Ross left to return to England he hauled the Mary up on shore so that, if Franklin came back there he would have a small ship with which to set out and would likely be picked up by whalers.