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Ed Yaghdjian
"Mrs. Lyn Godwin"
oil
on masonite, 30 in x 24 in
Nature has forever
been the inexhaustible source of my inspiration, and my work is simply an
emotional reaction to its splendour and beauty. Trained in the traditional
manner and working almost exclusively with oil, I am driven by an intense
desire to capture the forms, patterns, rhythms, colour relationships and
other esthetic elements underlying that beauty, and the need to “share the
moment and the experience”.
AWARDS
First Place Award
2006 International Portrait Arts Competition - Portrait Society of Cananda
Best Landscape Award
2005 Juried Spring Show - Willowdale Group of Artists
Biographical Notes:
1937 Born to
Armenian parents, in Cairo, Egypt.
1940-53 English education at Alvernia English Convent
School, Victoria College Cairo, The English School Cairo.
1948-68 Frequented the atelier of Master Painter Zorian, in
Cairo, and studied with him at various times over a period of 20 years.
1954-56 Cairo University, Faculty of Fine Arts - Cairo, Egypt.
1956-58 Leonardo Da Vinci School of Art - Cairo, Egypt.
1968 Moved to Canada and settled in Toronto.
1972-82 University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada.
"Paddock Road in the
Fall"
oil on
masonite, 35.5 in x 39 in
"Sharon"
oil on
masonite, 24 in x 26 in
Phone: (416) 493-2330
Email: info@ygarbis.com
More of Ed's works can be seen at his website,