Tania Klimasko-Hoffman
M.A. BEd.
Tania is a Canadian artist who paints vibrant impressionistic paintings in watercolour and acrylic.
Based in Maryhill and Southampton, Ontario, she paints florals, landscapes and portraits infused with bright, bold colour. Tania paints intuitively, spontaneously and sensitively, striving to capture emotion in any given moment. After a fulfilling career teaching the Arts, Tania continues to focus on her passion: creating beautiful works of art.
As a lifelong passionate artist, teacher and learner, Tania has travelled worldwide and studied with many respected artists, including Charles Reid, Fabio Cembranelli , Jura Bedic, Andy Evansen, Art Cunanan, Brian Smith, Doug Mays and Hi Sook Barker. She has studied at the Florence Academy of Art, Loyalist College, Ringling College, Southampton Art school, La Cloche County Art School as well as DVSA, Cambridge Centre for the Arts and the Button Factory.
AWARDS:
2019 Bea Hogan Award, Best Watercolour for "Blowin' in the Wind", COAA Juried show Dundas Museum and Archives
2018 Ellen Park Award for Best Portrait for "Pensive Blue" at the Southampton Art Gallery "Feast or the Eyes" juried show
2017 “Best in Show" for "Content to Be Who I Am" at the Southampton Art Gallery "Feast or the Eyes" juried show
2017 Juror's Award Honorable Mention KWSA juried show "Light Miracles" at Homer Watson Gallery
2017 Jane Champagne Award for "Content to be Who I Am" at the Southampton Art Gallery, “Feast for the Eyes" juried show
2015 Jane Champagne Award for innovative and bold techniques at the Southampton Art Gallery for ‘Elsinore Marsh in Blue”
2014 2nd Place for 'Aurora Borealis" at the Refrigerator Exhibit, Southampton Art School
JURIED SHOWS/ EXHIBITIONS/STUDIO TOURS:
2021 Sept. Paint Ontario Juried Show, "Celebration"
2019 Nov. "Art Incubate Festive Show" (7 Pieces), Waterloo
2019 Nov-Dec. "Winter Show" The Gallery at Frames by Verne
2019 COAA Etobicoke Juried Show "Scarlet Sunset", "Roses are A Bloomin"
2019 July, Shoreline artists "Waves of Inspiration Studio Tour", Port Elgin
2019 Minto Arts Exibition, Harriston ,"Tranquility Bay"
2019 KPL Members show, "Rainbow Sky"
2019 COAA "Perceptions", Dundas Museum ad Archives, "Blowin' in the Wind","Orange Sky at Dawn"
2019 "Contrasts" KWSA , Homer Watson Gallery, "Roses are Red"
2019 Feast for the Eyes "Winter's Hope", "Out for a Paddle "
2018 KWSA Etobicoke Show, "Cora Louise Beauty"
2018 Sept. Studio Tour, "Cambridge Life Drawing Collective"
2018 Feast for the Eyes, "Pensive Blue", "My Sister's Garden", "Cora Louise Beauty"
2018 COAA "Point of View", Hamilton Art Gallery, "Sunflower Sunrise", "Rainbow Daisies"
2018 "Artists and their Apprentices Show", Cambridge Centre for the Arts
2017 "New to Me" KWSA Member's Show, Berlin Tower Kitchener "Antonio"A show 2017
2017 COAA Show, Hamilton Art Gallery, "Spring Poppies", True North "
2017 Feast for the Eyes, "Content to Be Who I Am"
2017 "Light Miracles" KWSA Exhibition, "Brown Eyed Susans"
2015 "Feast for the Eyes", "Elsinore Marsh in Blue"
