September 30 – October 18, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct. 3, 2 – 5 pm
This body of work reflects not only the natural elements but human as well. Considering the obvious…You can’t have one without the other !!
We are—all of us, predator and prey alike. Intertwined in a constant dance of celebration, survival, curiosity, love, envy, hate, danger, destruction and unpredictable consequence.
All of this and more, enters my work. Thankfully, not all at once; rather, it sneaks in, unbeknownst to me, as I build my reconstructions—images magically appear! My subconscious thoughts become visibly apparent.
Sometimes I think..Ewww, I should take that out, it’s too disturbing.. but now I take nothing out. If it appears, it’s meant to be. I let the chips fall where they may because…that’s life!!
“In nature, nothing exists alone…All the life of the planet is interrelated of necessity” ~Rachel Carson
Tracy Thomson (she/her), AOCA, CSPWC, OSA, is a mixed media painter whose current main focus is to explore life’s mysterious visceral beauty, through reconstructed painted materials.
At the end of a two- year study in Fine Art at OCA, she won the Nora E. Vaughn Award for excellence in Drawing and Painting. For her final year, she switched over and graduated from the Experimental Art Dept. So began an inspirational exploratory journey into large-scale biomorphic abstract expressionism.
Today, with constant inspiration from her love and concern for the natural world, as well as the current fractured political environment, the resulting work is at once a dour testimonial and magical thinking. Often rendered in neon colour, one gets a sense of otherworldly environs.
Images tend to ‘arrive’ into the compositions as though sent from the subconscious, creating an atmosphere fraught with tension, a bit of humour and a sense of wonder.
Currently, a member of Propeller Art Gallery in Toronto, with numerous group and solo shows, outdoor large-scale wall murals, and various shows and galleries dating back to 1982! Her work is in private collections in Canada, the US, Italy and the Netherlands. Thomson’s illustration design work can be found in Children’s Lit with Harper Collins, Stoddart and Penguin Random House.
