At Simons, art is central to our identity. We're proud to exhibit many works of art at all our stores. Here, you can discover the new pieces we have on display at our Yorkdale Shopping Centre store!
Artist's Statement
Solarium draws inspiration from sunrooms—spaces designed to welcome light and invite contemplation. Animated fabric responds to airflow and light, blurring the line between nature and architecture in a quietly immersive experience. A layered diorama of animated trees, branches, and forest life surrounds mannequins, creating the natural illusion that composes Forest Diorama. The scene shifts with the seasons—wind and birds bring it to life. A macro journey through the life of plants—moss, seeds, ferns, and blooms—that echoes the colours and textures of fabric. This is the Fabric of Life. The animated cycle bridges organic growth and the world of fashion and design.
Bio
Rodeo FX is a visual effects studio based in Montreal and founded in 2006. Bringing together nearly 800 artists, the company is renowned for its technical expertise and high-end creative work. Internationally recognized, notably for the visual effects of Game of Thrones and Stranger Things, Rodeo FX also provides advertising services across production and post-production—including VFX, animation, experiences, and audio—and produces its own original content.
Blooming, 2025Acrylic, pastel, spray paint, and charcoal
CloSaint-Hippolyte, Quebec
Artist's Statement
The Blooming collection is driven by a momentum of renewal. Through textured layers and raw cotton canvas, each painting expresses an inner movement—a blooming in the making—guided by texture and gesture, where these two languages respond to each other in silence.
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Clo is an artist from Saint-Hippolyte, north of Montreal, who has specialized in abstract painting for over a decade. She is known for her vibrant compositions, characterized by textured effects and layered materials that captivate the eye and stir emotion.
Spring Thaw / Sunset Boat House, 2024Acrylic on wood
Kathleen FinlayMontreal, Quebec
Artist's Statement
I observe the spring thaw on cultivated fields and the reflections of the boathouse on the lake in summer. I seek refuge in a sober and discreet palette. I communicate how humans transform nature while understanding that our presence is fleeting and transitory.
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Originally from Montreal, Kathleen Finlay has been creating for over 35 years. As a photographer and visual artist, she explores the beauty of nature and the human footprint. Her work, both heartfelt and community-driven, shines in galleries and public spaces alike.
Artist's Statement
My acrylic sculptures explore the elusive beauty of shifting light; they embody the experience of migration through their dynamic forms. Each piece invites viewers to move about, as it subtly transforms with every glance—a metaphor for the immigrant journey, where identity, perspective, and meaning continuously unfold through new encounters and shifting viewpoints.
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Kal Mansur is a Canadian abstract artist based in Toronto. Born in 1965, he earned a BFA from the University of Texas in 1990 and has been creating translucent acrylic sculptures since 2006. His work melds minimalist forms with atmospheric colour, evoking memories of diverse landscapes. At first glance, they appear as paintings, but as the viewer moves, subtle shifts in colour and depth emerge—revealing sculptural forms that reward slow contemplation and sustained presence.
Artist's Statement
My work, Big Blue, is inspired by nature and its powerful elements. Its deep blue colour evokes water and sky, symbolizing strength, calm, and depth. Through this choice, I convey a quiet energy and profound emotion through raw material.
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Stan Bitters, born in 1936 in Fresno, California, has been a major figure in organic modernist ceramics since the 1960s. A UCLA graduate trained under Peter Voulkos, he creates monumental works—walls, totems, fountains—integrated into architecture. His pieces highlight raw gesture and materiality, often bearing the imprint of his own fingertips.
CIEL, 2025Acrylic on wood
NelioLyon, France
Artist's Statement
Created using acrylic paint applied with a roller in a free and spontaneous manner, CIEL establishes a subtle dialogue with the surrounding architecture. The work draws inspiration from the structural lines and colour tones of the spaces below, which it extends and reinterprets through an immersive pictorial composition. The piece combines geometric precision with organic fluidity. After sketching an initial structure, I paint in an instinctive flow, using a single roller to blend shades and create delicate transitions. Boundaries between forms fade, revealing a living and vibrant chromatic harmony. A play of gradients—reminiscent of an abstract, clouded sunset—sweeps across the surface. This diffuse light appears to echo the colourful atmospheres of the floor below. The “sun,” at the heart of the composition, aligns with the vertical circulation between the two floors. Slightly more luminous, it adapts to its immediate surroundings and pierces through the haze at the centre, gently highlighting the warmer tones nearby. Through its contextual and intuitive approach, CIEL is intrinsically linked to the site, transforming the space into an atmospheric and sensory landscape.
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Nelio is a French artist, born in 1982, who has specialized for over fifteen years in mural painting and geometric abstract art. Rooted in graffiti, his style blends symbols, typography, architecture, and modern art movements such as Suprematism and Bauhaus, creating dense compositions that play with flatness and depth. He is known for his vibrant murals across Europe.
SANDBANKS JULY, Edition 1/1 Var. II/III, 2020
LAKE ONTARIO SUNSET, Edition 1/1 Var. II/III, 2022Photography and mixed media
Christine FlynnPrince Edward County, Ontario
Artist's Statement
From Lake Ontario's crashing surf to West Lake's quiet stillness, this series is a love letter to Prince Edward County and Ontario. Each large-scale, limited-edition piece captures my daily explorations—blending natural beauty with abstract forms and gilded accents to evoke the magic of every season.
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Christine Flynn is a Canadian artist based in Prince Edward County. She earned a BFA in photography and design in 1994 and has since been creating works that combine photographic landscapes with texture and abstract elements—such as paint, metal leaf, and resin—to evoke memory and a sense of place.
Artist's Statement
Cities used to be the result of collective will and a desire to shape—to control—our environments. They were expressions of the things that happened in them. Although stylized, these photographs of Lego City show us how the line between plastic and uninhabited has become virtually indistinguishable from the “real thing.” This project is a collaboration between my husband, Raymond Girard, who built the city, and myself, who photographed it.
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Laird Kay is a Toronto-based photographer specializing in aviation, architecture, and industrial subjects. His bold, graphic images celebrate mechanical beauty—planes, terminals, engines—highlighting reflective surfaces, curves, and design precision. His work has been featured in Monocle, Vogue Italia, CNN, and Travel + Leisure.
OMNIPLASTICITY 1, 2 & 3, 2025LEGO® bricks
Raymond Girard (Pen & Brick)Toronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
OMNIPLASTICITY is a miniature architectural world rendered in LEGO® bricks, leveraging their modular versatility. These vibrant structures, rooted in a diverse architectural language that reflects world cultures, evoke both foreign and familiar cityscapes, inviting viewers to project their own dreams and aspirations onto these intricate urban landscapes.
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Raymond Girard, known as Pen & Brick, is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist who has been creating since the mid-2010s. He designs striking sculptures and installations using LEGO® bricks and detailed ink drawings, exploring urban architecture with playful creativity. His work blends a refined sense of detailing with large-scale whimsy, pushing the boundaries of accessible art.
Urban Labyrinth, 2025Acrylic
Mike ParsonsToronto, Ontario
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Mike Parsons, aka HEY APATHY!, is a Toronto-based artist who has practiced fine art and street art since the early 2000s. He produces black-and-white ink drawings, murals, and animations that explore city life, monsters, and human connection. His work expresses an optimistic warning about the future and engages public interaction through bold, comic-style visuals.
Dérive V, 2025Watercolour on paper
Eveline BoulvaQuebec City, Quebec
Artist's Statement
Through a visual narrative of overwhelming beauty, Eveline Boulva immortalizes the northern landscapes of the St. Lawrence River and North Atlantic, providing a unique perspective at the confluence of art, geography, and ecology on these ever-changing majestic coastal vistas. In this Anthropocene epoch, when the rapid transformation of natural landscapes is on our minds more than ever before, Eveline Boulva invites us to reflect on the fragility of our natural environments and on what must be done to preserve them.
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Eveline Boulva lives and works in Quebec City, where she was born in 1976. She has a PhD in art and geography from Université Laval and has exhibited her art in Quebec and Europe. Her work can be found in a variety of collections, including at MNBAQ, Loto-Québec, Hydro-Québec, and Global Affairs Canada.
FLOOD (series), 2024Embroidery on raw canvas
Cyndie BelhumeurMontreal, Quebec
Artist's Statement
The FLOOD series is inspired by the constant accumulation of digital information. In this work, I explore the boundaries between the physical and the digital by layering shapes and textures. I create dense, interwoven images that convey the visual and sensory saturation characteristic of our connected era.
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Cyndie Belhumeur is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in 1984 in Arthabaska, Quebec, and is now based in Montreal. Since 2014, she has been combining geometric and organic forms through colourful embroidery and mural installations to explore digital information overload and the dialogue between the virtual and the sensory. She created her first major mural, Résonance, with MU in 2015.
Artist's Statement
This piece was created to make you feel like your heart is settling into a quiet frozen moment. For a fleeting spark, you're camped inside a dream,
warmly suspended between emotion and wonder.
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Ethel Voronkova is a Filipino-Canadian artist based in Ontario. Using soak-stain acrylic techniques on raw canvas, she creates abstract works that evoke warmth and quiet emotion. Inspired by Helen Frankenthaler and intuitive nighttime painting sessions, her layered compositions invite reflection and are widely exhibited across Toronto.
Cloud series (Migratory; Buoyant; Fluctuating), 2025Photography, encaustic, paper, and sculpture
Sandy MiddletonSt. Catharines, Ontario
Artist's Statement
Each painting evolves through the accumulation of countless layers of the hot, melted, encaustic medium. I think of how this cumulative process of layering and fusing those layers resembles the collection of life experiences. Each layer presents options, possibilities, and choices. The image, while important, is deconstructed to allow for a subliminal connection with the viewer.
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Sandy Middleton is a Canadian mixed-media artist based in St. Catharines, Ontario. With a background in photography, she creates layered paper and encaustic works that explore history, identity, and impermanence. She is interested in the way time allows us to reshape and reimagine our memories. Her poetic, dreamlike compositions have earned her multiple awards and recognition.
Artist's Statement
These two letterpress prints were inspired by the concept of abstraction as a vital counterpoint to the social context in which we live.
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Sylvain Côté and Rose Adamson make up the Montreal-based print studio called atelier rosepink. For 27 years, they've explored old industrial printing techniques and applied them in a contemporary art context. Their latest project, Typositions, investigates the relationship between colour and form within a 17 x 11-inch format.
Languishing Impermanence, 2015-2020Archival giclée print
Ian BrownPrince Edward County, Ontario
Artist's Statement
These images explore the complex relationship between humanity and the spaces we construct, occupy, and ultimately abandon. Landscapes caught between vitality and decay—neither fully alive nor entirely forsaken, existing instead in a liminal state that reflects the transient nature of human engagement with the world we create.
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Ian Brown is an award-winning Toronto photographer whose work delves into the human condition and our relationship to place. For decades, he has travelled extensively—documenting everyday Americans (American Dreams), transient landscapes (Languishing Impermanence), and urban anthropology—imbuing each portrait and scene with honesty, depth, and quiet resonance.
Artist's Statement
Combining abstraction with textual collage, Freudian layers pages from psychology textbooks beneath chaotic brushwork and scrawled writing. The recurring phrase “death to the ego” cuts through the texture, underscoring themes of inner conflict, ego deconstruction, and the psychological theories of Freud and beyond.
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Patrick? Skals is a Toronto-based conceptual mixed-media artist whose acclaimed work merges abstraction and text to challenge mass cultural narratives and societal norms. Inspired by urban façades, he layers recycled psychology pages and textured paint, inviting honest introspection and emotional resonance. His work is collected and exhibited internationally.
Artist's Statement
My work is inspired by the interplay between structure and emotion—it uses geometry, colour, and abstraction to reinterpret landscapes and familiar forms. I explore the balance between tension and harmony, aiming to create visual spaces that evoke escapism, curiosity, and a sense of discovery beyond the recognizable world.
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Michelle Hovesen is a Toronto-based abstract artist who works with acrylics, geometric shapes, and hard-edge techniques. Drawing from landscapes and realism, she reimagines familiar forms through bold shapes and custom-blended colours. Her work explores themes of escapism, harmony, and the beauty found in the tension between opposites. Michelle's art has been exhibited in Toronto and Muskoka and is held in both residential and commercial collections.
Always along for the ride, 2025Ink and acrylic on canvas
Harvest when you can, 2025Ink and acrylic on canvas
Amelia ValentineToronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
My work is often a reflection of my emotional state; this work in particular is an exploration of my belief that our relationships and our selves have seasons and deaths and renewals just as nature does. We are a part of nature, not apart from it.
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Amelia Valentine is a Toronto-based painter whose work balances control and spontaneity. Using ink, acrylic, resin, and even glass, she embraces spills, splatters, and bleeds—letting accidents shape atmospheric, intuitively composed pieces. Her art explores the tension between mastery and chance and is held in private and corporate collections across Canada and internationally.
Crowd, 2024Oil on canvas
Rana BaidasToronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
My art captures the silent stories of people's daily lives. I aim to reveal their inner emotions and the essence of their being, using light to highlight the profound connection between figures and their surroundings.
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Rana Baidas is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores notions of identity, memory, and migration. Using photography, video, and installation, she blends personal narratives with collective experiences, creating pieces that question cultural and temporal boundaries. Her art invites deep reflection on the connections between past and present and is held in private collections and exhibited across Canada and internationally.
Artist's Statement
My landscapes were conceived of in Charlevoix. I'm inspired by the landscape tradition of this region, into which I integrate the naivety of folk art and familiar representations of the land, creating contrasts using both pastel and bright colours.
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Pierre Bouchard grew up in Saint-Henri-de-Taillon on the shores of Lac Saint-Jean. In 2008, he began his career as a painter, creating various collections for the Beauchamp and Iris galleries in Baie-Saint-Paul where he created his quilt series. His work is exhibited in Quebec and internationally.
