Sonia Farquharson

As an emerging portrait and visual artist, my paintings focus on everyday people of various cultural backgrounds as well as historical figures from the past and present that have contributed to our country’s cultural mosaic through the teachings of diversity via religion and politics. My signature trademark is her portrait work emphasizing light and dark contrasts to show various levels of facial expressions which are visually appealing to the eye. I envision that my work will help to bring communities of all nationalities together through the various compositions and themes that I've created for over 20 years. Even though I work in other mediums such as oil, pastel and pencils, my preference is to work in Acrylic. My work has been featured on City TV, Cogeco TV, Humber TV 2009 and in various local newspapers across the GTA and surrounding areas such as the Hamilton Spectator, Burlington Post, Metro, Now Magazines amd Humber Et Cetera, 2009 Caribana Festival Guide and Sway, just to name a few. Her work was featured at the New York Art Expo in February 2008. I am proud to be one of the 50 artists that has participated in Scotiabank Caribana Art Exhibition (Colourblind) brought to you by the Association of African Canadian Artists at the Royal Ontario Museum for the past 3 years.