Victoria Pearce lives and paints in Hamilton’s James North art district and cottages on the edge of Algonquin Park and enjoys hiking and paddling the natural spaces of Ontario’s north, be it Muskoka, Algonquin, Haliburton, Kawartha, Madawaska or the length of Bruce Trail.

The contrast of sky to rocky cliffs, grand pines and idyllic islands make for great inspiration. Her labyrinth style finds much inspiration in the exposed rock of the Canadian Shield, the grand White Pines and wide open skies.

Over the last 20 years she has painted oversized, ants eye view florals combined with abstractions and surreal nests floating in the sky. She is currently focused on the Ontario Landscape in all its vast diversity, from waterfalls to grand pine forests, silhouetted islands to craggy cliffs and voluminous skies. Within them she finds the shapes, lines, colours, patterns and forms she so loves, that tend to invoke a myriad of associations to ancient writings, tile/knit patterns, and even mathematical principles to some. Her paintings from a distance are a drastically different experience than one under closer inspection, and she invites everyone to come for a closer look.