Visual Arts






TD Mosaic Festival 2017 is excited to once again host a Live Painting Competition on both days of the festival with cash prizes for the top three artists.

This year's theme is "Celebrating Canada 150 - Building Unity"

The Open Air live painting events will take place on Friday, August 11, at 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Saturday August 12, 2017 at 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Virsa Visual Arts area next to the main stage at Celebration Square (beside the main entrances to the Central Library). Celebration Square is located at 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1. Preregistered participants are requested to be at the area 30 minutes before the competition time and 1 hour before if you have not preregistered.

The Open Air Live Painting is a competition for three top cash prizes that will be juried by select team of jurors. The prizes are as follows 1st prize $300, 2nd prize $200, and 3rd prize $150. The winners will be announced and invited on stage as part of the TD Mosaic Festival proceedings. All created works will be on display for the duration of the festival for guests and visitors to enjoy.

TD Mosaic Festival will provide the artist with one free 24"x24" canvas, primary base colors in acrylic paints at a central area for artists to share. Artists are asked to provide their own easels and favorite paint colors and any other tools or brushes that they use to paint with.

Visual Arts Exhibition booths

Four Canadian artists will present their artwork for sale and exhibition during this year's outdoor festival. Artists include well known miniature painter Reeta Saeed, who has been working internationally for many years and was a part of CCAI exhibition Baazgasht in 2011? at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. More artist's info coming soon.

Paul LaBlanc is a Native Metis Acadian aspiring artists from Quebec who is installing a TEEPEE at the Festival grounds this year. This is a mark of respect and honouring all those who suffered under colonial ideas and societies.

Royal Ontario Museum is a part of our festival this year with its beautiful inspiring exhibition promotion about Anishnabe art and culture.

TD Mosaic Festival Live Painting Competitors

Friday, August 11, 2017 - Time: 5:00 PM

  1. Vibha Malhotra (vibhamalhotra@outlook.com) (416-520-5212)

    2. Artists Statement: "Canada has been my home for over 43 years. It has been such an exciting journey watching my chosen home become a place where we celebrate our different heritages with pride. It is amazing sharing and learning from each other, we find similarities in the diversity. With the magic of colours, I look forward to celebrating Canada's 150th birthday."

  2. Samantha Campbell (S.Campbell93@hotmail.com, SamanthaCampbell@springboardservices.ca) (416-894-4308)

    3. Artists Statement: None (Samantha Campbell is a Residential Counselor and provides Community Support Servicers - 335 Leslie St. Toronto ON M4M 3C8)

  3. Chelsea Attong ( chelseaattong@gmail.com ) ( thas33@hotmail.com )

    4. Artists Statement: "Jamaican born, Canadian raised artist Topaz uses acrylics and mixed media to create vibrant abstract paintings of the beautiful diversity in the place she happily calls her home. This recent work depicts a sort of timeline from our proud native inhabitants to the melting pot that is now her Canada, Topaz uses an introspective prespective to capture her immigrant experience on canvas."

  4. Emily (Bright) Carahas ( emilybrightbarkas@gmail.com ) (647-377-7646)

    5. Artist Statement: "Everyone has a story. Canadians are brought together by their unique stories and histories that date much further than Canada's 150 years. We all share the need to feel validated, elevated and free to express ourselves and speak our truths. Canada is a country of compassion, freedom and unity that continues to be built by each one of us."

  5. Carolyn Hendricks ( chencdricks@opovoc.com )

    6. Artists Statement: "Carolyn Hendricks has cultivated a keen sense of design capturing textures, patterns and expressive abstracts. Her use of reflective sharp colours contrast light when fused in her renderings."



Saturday, August 12, 2017 - Time: 3:00 PM

  1. KhaulaMazhar ( khaulamazhar@yahoo.com )

  2. Devon Ross ( rossdev432@gmail.com, brodev@live.com ) (647-501-9878)

    3. Artists Statement: "My conceptual idea within the theme of celebrating Canada 150 is a representation of how Canada is seen through the eyes of a Canadian. Diversity and building unity are some of the things that make Canada such a wonderful place to live. Canadian culture comes from all over the world."

  3. Veronica Blanco ( vblancoart@gmail.com ) ( www.veronicablancoart.com )

    4. Artists Statement: "Veronica Blanco is an emerging artists who concentrates in painting and drawing. She received her BFA with honors in Visual Arts from York University in the spring of 2014. Her work is intensely personal and a visual examination of relationships. Inspired by personal moments and the people around her, Veronica explores the intimacy, passion and even struggles between couples. She is fascinated by the power of the body to entice us and the messages found in body language."

  4. Emily (Bright) Carahas ( emilybrightbarkas@gmail.com ) (647-377-7646)

    5. Artists Statement: "Everyone has a story. Canadians are brought together by their unique stories and histories that date much further than Canada's 150 years. We all share the need to feel validated, elevated and free to express ourselves and speak our truths. Canada is a country of compassion, freedom and unity that continues to be built by each one of us."

  5. Srinithi Raghavan (srinithi.raghavan@gmail.com ) (905-399-7497)

    6. Artists Statement: "I like to live creatively, I am a Toronto based Artists who specializes in custom oil paintings and pecil portraits. I was also a Paint Nite Toronto Instructor for 6 months, where I taught a room of 25 - 35 people how to paint a pre-determined acrylic painting in 2 hours - www.sris-arts.com"

  6. Nisreen Aksar (nisreenaskar@yahoo.ca)

    7. Artists Statement: "I love to create art because I can express my thoughts, feelings and can run my imagination wild with it. The feeling of accomplishing that what I imagine came to life, thrills me. I'm happy to see my vision of beauty translated onto canvas. Since childhood I'm inspired by my artistic father and Monnet's impressionist paintings. I love to paint nature as well as abstract painting. Unexpected and unique compositions with vivid color combinations along with my love for blending colours and textures in painting brings forth my playfulness and spontaneity, transforming a blank canvas into on that speaks to me."

  7. Vibha Malhotra (vibhamalhotra@outlook.com) (416-520-5212)

    8. Artists Statement: "Canada has been my home for over 43 years. It has been such an exciting journey watching my chosen home become a place where we celebrate our different heritages with pride. It is amazing sharing and learning from each other, we find similarities in the diversity. With the magic of colours, I look forward to celebrating Canada's 150th birthday."

  8. Brarislav Dordevic ( onesketchyguy@gmail.com ) (734-922-5918)

    9. Artists Statement: "I would like to create an abstract depiction of the dancer's outfits / fabrics or possible movements. Something with a South Asian flare color story to represent the unity of cultures."

  9. Rosenberg ( beverleygirl@hotmail.com, e.mlotek18@gmail.com) (416-709-3775)

  10. Justin Robinson ( jr7artwork@gmail.com )

    11. Artists Statement: "Modern expressionist painting on the theme of 'co-existence' between people, the lands and cities. My experiences of Canada has only become healthy due to meeting so many people and celebrating our differences. I would like to paint an exterior scene of people being people in the 21st Century."

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