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“A Day in the Life” Calgary based oil painter, Ray Swirsky

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Ray Swirsky is an oil painter extraordinaire! His work is filled with colour and life and typically paints scenes in a realistic style of landscapes or bison and other animals. If you travel around the […]

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Doro Buch is just like her art, charming, colourful and brilliant. She moved to Calgary in 2012 from Bremen, Germany and is both social scientist and contemporary visual artist. Her paintings consider dynamic compositions and […]

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