Victoria is a professional artist with an honours BFA from York University and an OSA member. She exhibits her work extensively throughout Ontario and has work in collections in a university,  bank and private homes across Canada and United States.She is an avid hiker and an enthusiastic Bruce Trail Conservancy member as well as a past program director for Burlington Fine Arts for twenty years.

 Victoria paints and teaches from her Hamilton studio and at a family camp in northern Ontario each summer. She travels the the length of the Bruce trail as well as the lakes and trails of Algonquin, Haliburton , Kawartha and Madawaska, gathering inspiration for her unique landscapes.The many waterfalls, grand pine forests, silhouetted islands, and voluminous skies are her inspiration. Her belief in the interconnectivity of all nature led to the unique labyrinth style she now uses to illustrate the constant movement in everything from a waterfall, to a wall of granite.

 Victoria lives in Hamilton and cottages in Haliburton on the edge on Algonquin Park.

https://www.victoriapearce.ca/

Victoria is currently focused on the Ontario Landscape in all its vast diversity. As an artist and avid hiker , observing and recording as she hikes or paddles along is an important part of her process. Within the landscape she finds the shapes. lines, forms, colours and patterns she so loves. To work with the interplay of one colour pushing up against another or the interconnecting lines within a shape  that make up an interconnecting labyrinth composition is a challenge and a joy.To see the constant movement of all things natural is sometimes easy , as in a waterfall, but more challenging in a wall of granite. It is the geography geek in her that is excited by a ridge of Dolostone, or the rush of a water cascade, all products of the time glaciers covered the land. Expressing that friction and interconnectivity is what she strives to do.
Pearce’s labyrinth style of landscape is a unique one. it evokes a myriad of associations from ancient writings to tile or knitted patterns, even mathematical principles to some.. You will find looking at the paintings from a distance is a drastically different experience than a closer inspection. Please, come, have a closer look.