Watermedia Paintings
A fresh and unique style of landscape watercolour painting.
All paintings are for sale unless noted as SOLD.
RECENT WORK
Distant Lights Baptiste Lake
13" x 20" (23 x31" framed)
$750
Back of House:Stratford
12" x 16" (18 x 22" framed)
$450
Back of House:Cambridge (Galt)
12" x 16" (18 x 22" framed)
$450
The Walls (Toronto Botanical Gardens)
11" x 14" (18 x 22" framed)
$400
Rice Lake
11" x 16" (18 x 22" framed)
$450
TWS Award of Merit Fall 2025 Exhibition
Little Yellow Raincoat (Paul Revere Square, Boston)
18" x 13" (27 x 23" framed)
$600
ONTARIO's COUNTRYSIDE
The Light Beyond
19" x 12"
$750
Settled In For The Winter
12 x 24"
$500
The"Gut" on the Crowe River
19" x 24"
$850
The Rock Cut, Highlands of Hastings
13 x 17" (22 x26 framed)
$750
Winter: A Study in Blue and Gray
13"x17"
SOLD
Autumn Riot
20 x 12" (21 x 31" framed)
Award of Merit, Toronto Watercolour Society
Selected for Display at Ontario's Legislative Building Art a la Carte
SOLD
Toronto's Ravines
Winter Morning Walk David Balfour Ravine
17" x 23" ( 23" x 30" framed)
$750
Humber River at Dundas Bridge
10 x 12" (18 x 22" framed)
$500
Sunrise Over Mimico Creek
10 x 14" (18 x 22")
$450
Humber River's Edge
14x10" (22 x 18" framed)
$400
Bridging the Humber
12 x 16" (16 x20 framed)
$400
Mimico Creek at the Islington Bridge
10 x 14" (18 x 22" framed)
$400
LAKES
April Ice, Baptiste Lake
17" x 12 " ( 22" x 26" framed)
$700
Red Sky at Night...
20 x 13" ( 30" x 23" framed)
$700
April Shoreline, Baptiste Lake
16 x 12"
SOLD
The Day Before The Ice Went Out
24 x 15" (32 x 22" framed)
$500
The Three Red Cottages, Sunrise Lodge, Baptiste Lake
14 x 18" ( 22 x 26 framed)
SOLD
Waiting for the Ice to Go Out, Baptiste Lake
19 x 13" (28 x 21" framed)
$500
Urban VIEWS
Humber River Bridge
10 x16"
$500
The Fire Line
10" x 13" (18 x 22 framed)
$450
Honourable Mention TWS Fall Aquavison 2024
"A courageous painting about a courageous subject"
Back of House, Coburg ON
12 x 16"(framed 20 x 22)
$500
TWS Award of Merit
Last Resting Place of Captain Fluke, Mount Pleasant Cemetery Toronto
14 x 12"
SOLD
Chicago River
30 x 22"
SOLD
Chicago Skyline, State Street Bridge
5 x 8"
Reproductions available
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Artist's Statement
I am interested in the intersection of nature and human constructs such as bridges, roads, barns and the like. As an architect used to hard edged drawing I find freedom in the very expressive media of sketching and watercolours. I find water based media the most expressive of mediums. And it is most challenging. Watercolour has a mind of its own at times and I like to refer to the results of a watercolour as "controlled accidents". Every painting can delight with its results.
About Lawrence Kavanagh
Lawrence has painted in watercolours since his early teens and is self taught. He joined the Toronto Watercolour Society in 2016 and is now a Bronze Level Member (15 Juried Exhibitions). He is also a member of the Canadian branch of the International Watercolour Society. His work continues to evolve as he discovers new surfaces to paint on and new tools to use. These in turn urge on experimentation and more colourful and expressive representations of nature and man made interventions.
Lawrence is a Retired Architect and project manager with his own firm based in Toronto
Awards and Exhibitions
- Best Watercolour, Arts Etobicoke
- Jury Selection, Hart House Justina Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto
- Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (10 years)
- Best First Time Entered Award, Toronto Watercolour Society (TWS)
- Three Awards of Merit, TWS Aquavision Juried Exhibitions
- Seventeen Consecutive Juried Selections to TWS Aquavision Art Exhibitions