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KonstART Studio -- KEJM Studios
Visual Artist, plus Children's Book Author/Illustrator:
* retired Ontario educator;
* passionate about painting;
* inspired by travels abroad and home regions.
Explore my Virtual Studio.
Email inquiries and appointments
to view in-person my working studio.
kejmstudios@gmail.com
New Location: Balcony Studio
in the Upper Church Hall
at St. James Anglican Church
in Stratford, ON, Canada
Newest: Paintings, Children's Book and Latest Mug on offer
As a fundraiser for The Bell Tower of St. James, I will make a 25% donation from each sale.
March 2025: Two acrylic paintings on different shaped canvases, using a winter scene based on a walk with my dog along the river on a snowy day in December 2024. While my bridge is based on the Festival Bridge, this is purely an imaginary place developed while painting.
Price: $475 on round canvas (16" diameter);
$500 on rectangular canvas (12" X 24")
My 2024 summer theme: Moonlight on the Water,
8" X 8" watercolour sketch.
Price: $325
I have been working on variations of my sketch.
This 9" X 12"watercolour is matted. July 2024 Price: $350.
Greta's Little Red Cabin, Price: $400
Showing the three stages of an 11" X 14" acrylic painting:
1. Sketch using orange, black and white, June 2024;
2. adding details and 3. finishing in full colour, July 2024.
This painting was done with Greta at my side initially.
It is destined to be part of my second children's storybook.
Untitled Acrylic Painting:
March 2024 start: still in progress.
I hope to finish it by the end of the
2025 winter season.
-- A Diptych (on two canvases)
at my Balcony Studio in St. James, Stratford.
I continue working on my Love of Winter.
Weathered Another Storm
Acrylic, 18" X 24"
November 2023
Price: $700
Where the River Leads
Acrylic, 16" X 20"
April 2023
Price: $600
Latest, One-of-a Kind Mugs:
Three Whooping Cranes at $25
Image taken from my Watercolour Painting:
The Dance of the Whooping Cranes, 2022
Sunset Mug at $25
Same image on both sides
Image taken from my Acrylic Painting:
End of a Happy Day, 2018
Birch and Pines
Acrylic, 11" X 14"
January 2024
Price: $400
Coming Down The River
Acrylic, 16" X 20"
January 2024
Price: $600
The Turquoise Trinity Series:
The Path, The Parting, The Blessing
3 Acrylic Paintings, 16" X 20",
January 2023
Price: $600 each
Northern Rapids
16" X 20" Acrylic, 2022
Price: $600
Sunset's Peace
36" X 60" Oil,
April 2020 to May 2024
Price: $2,000
Looking Out the Window
11.5" X 15" Watercolour, 2024
Price: $425
Winter on the Lake #2
11.5" X 15" Watercolour, 2024
Price: $425
Winter on the Lake #1
11.5" X 15" Watercolour, 2024
Price: $425
Mid-Winter Scene
6" X 10" Watercolour, 2024
Price: $310
Shoals: Horizontal Lines
11.5" X 15" Watercolour, 2024
Price: $425
Sunny Flower
Oil, Size: 16" X 20", 2023
Price: $600
Canadian - Ukrainian Ties
28" X 28", Acrylic, board on board, framed.
Value of this painting: $1,000
Sold for $2,000
This painting is now hanging on the wall
at the Ukrainian Credit Union in Etobicoke.
Money raised was donated to bringing
Ukrainian refugees safely to Canada.
On May 7, 2022, this painting was donated
to the Ukrainian organization in the Golden Horseshoe area. It now resides at the Ukrainian Credit Bank in Etobicoke.
Ingvar, the Swedish Tomten
2021 -2022
As a new direction, I decided to write a story and illustrate it for my first children's book.
Our granddaughter had turned 3 years old.
This was her birthday present. I'm currently painting pictures in both watercolour and acrylic for the sequel, as a present for her 7th or 8th birthday.
After publication, the ideas kept coming to me. I went in a slightly, but more laborious direction, as I took two artistic welding courses with Frank Holte, who worked at Off The Wall and recently retired from the Stratford Festival. Ingvar now resides at our front entrance to greet visitors. He is in a 36" X 48" steel carving. There are photos of him in this website.
Meet some of the characters for this storybook:
Ingvar and his friends Uggla, the little owl, Carly, the cardinal, and Vittbjörn, the polar bear.
At Christmas we have 3 inflated Christmas elves/gnomes, as our decorations in front of
the house. In Sweden, the tradition at Christmas includes gifts, being delivered by the Christmas elf (Jultomten) to the children of the family, before they go to bed on Christmas Eve.
There is a very old tradition (not believed completely anymore) that each farm had a "tomten", who looked after the farm animals and even kept an eye on the family.
These 2+ foot tall little beings have the use of magic, so they are often invisible.
Meet Ingvar's Dad: Ingemar.
He, along with Bosse, Ingvar's Granddad,
will be featured in the upcoming second book
about the Tomtarna.
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