Preview: Saturday September 10, 2005 10 am - 5:30 pm

(work subject to prior sale)

Opening Reception: Sunday September 11, 2005 1pm - 5 pm

Artist in attendance; Elizabeth Ely, harpist

Exhibition continues until October 1, 2005

Tad Suzuki is a self-taught, award-winning artist. He was born and raised in Japan, and came to Canada in the early 1980s as a university student. While attending university, he began painting from photographs in his spare time. But it was not until 1994 when he completed his masters degree in library science that he started to paint "more seriously". Since then, he has shown his work in various group and solo exhibitions, and received numerous regional and international awards, including the Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic Award for Best in Show at Sooke Fine Arts Show in B.C., Finalist at the American Artist 1998 Emerging Artist Competition, The Daler-Rowney Purchase Prize at Art Methods & Material Show in Pasadena, CA, and Liquitex Artist of the Month in Nov. 1999. His feature article was published in the American Artist magazine in March 2002.

While his inspiration mostly comes from the subject themselves, he admires a number of modern Canadian and American realistic painters such as Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt, Edward Hopper, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, and John Register, as well as not-so-modern realists of the East and West, namely HIroshige, Hokusai, Canaletto, and Vermeer. Suzuki is a Signature Member of National Acrylic Painters' Association (UK). His work is included in private and corporate collections.