Claudette Losier will be exhibiting her doodles and transfer art entitled ?The Harvest 2010? from February 12^th to March 10^th at the Blue Angel Gallery on James St. North in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  The opening reception is on Friday February 12^th at 7 pm part of the James St. monthly crawl night.  The Harvest is a combination of oil paintings,  doodles and photo transfer creations of floral, portraits, figurative, animals, and strange abstracts.  The Blue Angel Gallery is located at 243 James St. N. (just south of Barton St.).  Please call the Gallery for hours of operation at 905-522-8735.  The exhibition is open to the public.

?The Harvest 2010? represents the output of my growing season as an artist these past two years from gathering my ideas, seed-form, through the process of regular yoga spiritual practice, modeling for animation students influencing my work, doodling in my sketch book and snapping photos with my digital camera to reaping an abundance of output creative crops.  In 2007 I started to go back to drawing with my first few drawings being careful renderings with black pen from anatomy books and the masters DaVinci and Michelangelo.  Although I was pleased with these drawings they took a long time and they did not get me to develop the habit of drawing regularly.   So I went to a smaller sketch book, 3?X5?, which I was able to carry with me wherever I went and no longer felt precious about each drawing which started the habit of drawing regularly and 2 years later I have a nice collection of more than 15 sketch books.  I started at first using the blind contour or quick gesture techniques and later added drawing on top of the less successful doodles and going back into them by noodling them and later switching to a gel black pen.  I also purchase my first digital camera and saw the world in a new way as this technology provided me with greater capabilities for my creative image explorations.  This past year I made photo copies of these works to create my transfer art and coloured them up using left over pastels and later added acrylic inks, plus combine transfer image and oils.  My yoga practices lead me to read from all scriptures for the underlying equality and harmonizing truth in all religions, and sciences particularly physic and Nero plasticity that explained to me a new reality about the Universe that is influencing my creations.  I sing cosmic chants while creating in my studio to promote positive vibrations and now create art to promote peace and Universal love.  All of these explorative steps I took resulted in my creative outflow expending and into a more intuitive process way of working and more automatic drawing or creating full of exciting energy.  

In the past I have won awards in Juried Shows in Ontario one award of merit for my swimmer drawing, honorary mention for transfer work, a Gerald Gunter Humanity Award, and two best in show awards for my portraiture work. I have my art work selling at the Burlington Art Centre Art Ectera shop, the Art Gallery of Hamilton?s Art Rental and Shop, and Arts Hamilton Boutique.  In 2006 I have turned my attention to teaching art with classes in oil painting, drawing botanical and wildlife subject matter, and transfer art techniques at the Burlington Art Center, and the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.  I now have my art on the web at the following sites:  claudettelosier.artshamilton.ca, www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/Losier/, and www.flickr.com/photos/30736118@N03/.  Three of my transfer art are included in book-catalog NeoPopRealism Starz: 21st Century ART  by Nadia  Russ, compendium of new millennium contemporary art available at www.barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com.  ; or >http://neopoprealismstarz.com/id80.html