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# Frances Ferdinands

Paintings of Canadian Artist Frances Ferdinands

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## Pages

- [Home](https://francesferdinands.com/) - Frances Ferdinands is a Toronto-based artist. Her paintings explore themes including identity, the beauty/fragility of nature, migration and transformation.
- [Curriculum Vitae](https://francesferdinands.com/about/curriculum-vitae/)
- [New Works](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/new-works/) - A shift in direction from Cultural Intersections leads me to painting on larger canvases, exploring more shapes, colours, movement and form and being less of a maximalist.
- [Contact me](https://francesferdinands.com/contact-me/) - Please use this page to contact me for studio visits, commissions, pricing inquiries, or directly through my email address - francesjferdinands@gmail.com
- [About](https://francesferdinands.com/about/) - Frances Ferdinands has exhibited her paintings for 4 decades nationally and internationally in such art centres as Paris, New York, Chicago, Honolulu, and London as well as across the USA and Canada.Her work is rooted in her Sri Lankan heritage and exhibits a love for colour and pattern. Through her immigrant experience, themes of migration,
- [Biography](https://francesferdinands.com/about/biography/) - This page presents the biography of Sri Lankan born, Toronto-based Canadian Artist Frances Ferdinands.
- [109: The Domestic & Divine](https://francesferdinands.com/109-the-domestic-divine/) - This impressive piece, titled 109: The Domestic & Divine, alludes in its title to the Buddhist or Hindu Mala, or prayer beads, that are meant for contemplation. One hundred and eight elements, plus one (representing the Mala’s connecting bead) are suspended from the ceiling, interspersed with similarly-sized mirrors and all framed by embroidery hoops, the highly-charged symbol of traditional ‘women’s work’ that encouraged a downward looking, focused concentration that turned its user’s attention inward. Here the hoops are stretched not with embroideries but with found lace doilies that are beaded, painted and stretched onto the hoops. Others are carefully stretched with painted mandalas and phrases designed to suggest mantras. Each element hangs from a string of vintage beads sourced by the artist. Here, the domestic has been reframed as a joyful space equated with the artist’s own handiwork–a process which she enjoys immensely. Overall, the effect is joyous, craft-based and colourful, a free-hanging riot of pattern and colour. Yet the details contained within the installation seek to link the act of creation with that of inward reflection. The fundamental symbol of the circle is thus an apt theme for this exhibition. For Ferdinands, the aim is for the visitor to feel a sense of spirituality, connection and peace through the idea of meditative labour, “a way of knowing the world that can only be gained by working with our hands.” - Andrea Carson Barker
- [News](https://francesferdinands.com/news/) - This page presents News, Articles, YouTube videos of talks, and Invitations to Gallery openings for Artist Frances Ferdinands
- [Gallery](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/) - WELCOME. This gallery features the many thematic series/exhibitions of paintings created by Sri Lankan born, Toronto-based Canadian Artist Frances Ferdinands.
- [Assorted Works on Paper](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/works-on-paper/) - These acrylic paintings on paper are often in a limited series. The recent "White on Rice" series and the earlier "Shrine Series" are also thematic in content.
- [Lassanai  (Beautiful)](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/lassanai-beautiful/) - Much of the work emanates from studies in my homeland, Sri Lanka. There I was mentored in arts culturally at risk -Traditional Painting and Bobbin Lace making.
- [Between Latitudes](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/between-latitudes/) - This exhibition continues the themes explored in the exhibition "Lassanai". I create meditations on beauty despite a history of war, religion and commerce.
- [Cultural Intersections](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/cultural-intersections/) - These paintings can be described as "exotic" landscapes hovering somewhere between representation and abstraction. Largely painted intuitively, and drawing on an array of reference material, they are a mix of objects, nature imagery, patterning and ornamentation. Within this eclectic mix of age-old patterns rooted in South Asian, Middle Eastern, or Western cultures, in juxtaposition with
- [Studio Vimy](https://francesferdinands.com/contact-me/studio-vimy/) - Located at 7842 Vimy Ridge Rd. Cobourg K9A 4J7, "Studio Vimy Fine Art" is the working studio of renowned Canadian Painter, Frances Ferdinands. By appointment only.
- [Solitary Women](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/solitary-women/) - This marked my first solo exhibition and my predilection for working in thematically-based series. At that time I had a home studio and I was feeling isolated.
- [War](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/war/) - WAR is very much a reflection of my thoughts and feelings on our modern-day experience of it. We largely encounter it through the mediated world of TV or Movies.
- [Urban/ Nature](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/urban-nature-3/) - The meeting or juxtaposition of contrasting forces such as industry/technology with nature sets up an interesting dynamic; the visual portrayal of this interests me.
- [Tropicals & Beyond](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/tropicals-beyond/) - These works emanated from my several trips to Mexico and Hawai'i. They evolved out of a strong response to the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world.
- [Adrift](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/adrift/) - This series emanated from personal loss and feelings of futility, and isolation. They became expressed through the image of a small weathered, unmoored boat.
- [Food For Thought](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/food-for-thought/) - " Ferdinands references her Sri Lankan heritage, and her Canadian upbringing, to bring a global perspective in addressing social, spiritual, and environmental concerns."
- [Abstracts](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/abstracts/) - After decades of representational painting, I forged a new direction letting the imagery unfold in an organic manner, allowing the elements of chance infuse the work.
- [Fashion Meets Art](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/fashion-meets-art/) - These diptychs juxtapose a haute couture fashion ad with a version of a late 19th, early 20th century European painting reflecting ontheir commonalities.
- [Mining Beauty](https://francesferdinands.com/gallery/mining-beauty-2/) - The present work explores Feminine Beauty and Fashion through “mining” my personal history amongst other source materials. By collecting and combining remembrances of feelings and occurrences, physical documents and materials, I weave a narrative “cloth” linking childhood to the present. The ‘paisley’ motif becomes a metaphor for my own migration. Its evolution, symbolic of mine
- [Media Room](https://francesferdinands.com/news/media-room-2/) - Frances Ferdinands is a Toronto-based Canadian artist. Her representational, acrylic paintings explore a variety of themes including war, the beauty/fragility of tropical landscape, and the correlation of fashion and art.

## Picture tag

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- [MAY 2013](https://francesferdinands.com/ngg_tag/may-2013/)
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- [Arts & Crafts Vase](https://francesferdinands.com/ngg_tag/arts-crafts-vase/)
- [French](https://francesferdinands.com/ngg_tag/french/)
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- [beach shells sea ocean water sand acrylic abstract](https://francesferdinands.com/ngg_tag/beach-shells-sea-ocean-water-sand-acrylic-abstract/)
- [embroidery hoops beads lotus designs doilies acrylic installation](https://francesferdinands.com/ngg_tag/embroidery-hoops-beads-lotus-designs-doilies-acrylic-installation/)
- [stupa shrine belle époque art history decor ornamentation](https://francesferdinands.com/ngg_tag/stupa-shrine-belle-epoque-art-history-decor-ornamentation/)
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- [Canadian identity](https://francesferdinands.com/ngg_tag/canadian-identity/)
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