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About Georgena Bourgeault

Art is meant
to be shared.

“Paintings are meant to be looked at, not stored away. I’d love for mine to be enjoyed.”

— Georgena
Between the Trees

Her story

87 years.
A lifetime of painting.

Some people take up painting. Georgena never put it down.

Painting of a grey house front almost hidden by hanging wisteria in lavender, pink and white among green leaves, with pink roses and a pale yellow flowering shrub along its base. Through cream-framed windows behind the flowers, figures and a cluster of red blooms can be glimpsed.
WisteriaLandscape

  1. Her whole life

    Georgena Bourgeault has been an artist her whole life. She paints the things most people walk past: snow giving way to open water, an old tree in dry grass, tomatoes on a winter sill, a carousel horse alone in a field.

  2. Galleries across Canada

    For years she sold her paintings through art galleries across Canada, and they went home with people from all over.

  3. The ones that stayed

    Today she is 87, and the paintings on this site are the last originals she has. They are the ones that stayed with her.

  4. Out into the world

    Rather than keep them to herself, she is making every one into a canvas print, so more people can enjoy them, and maybe someone will be inspired to start painting too.

At a glance

Subjects
Landscapes, still life, portraits, abstracts
Once sold through
Art galleries across Canada

How she works

Patient looking.
No hurry.

Every painting here began the same way: with something she noticed, and the patience to keep looking at it.

  1. Looking

    Each painting starts with looking: the shape of the weather, where the light falls, the stones in a wall, the folds of a cloth.

    The Stone Room

  2. Ordinary things

    Five tomatoes on a white sill. Three sheep resting in the straw. She gives everyday things her full attention, and lets them be enough.

    Winter Tomatoes

  3. The brush

    She lets the brushwork show instead of smoothing it away. Every mark is part of what the painting remembers.

    Thaw

  4. Time

    Each painting takes the time it needs. There is no hurrying it.

    In Dress Uniform

What she’s sharing

Every last one.

See all 37 in the gallery

Choose a canvas print for your space, made to order and ready to hang. See the available sizes on Etsy.

  • 8″ × 12″, 20″ × 30″ and 24″ × 36″
  • Printed to order by Printful
  • Bought through her Etsy shop
  • Free shipping within Canada and the US

Your turn

Let it start
something.

Find the painting that stops you, and hang it where you’ll see it every day. And if it ever makes you want to pick up a brush yourself, don’t wait. That’s what she’s hoping for.

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