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 CF Toronto Eaton Centre store!
Fabric of Life, 2025Digital animation on an LED wall
Rodeo FXMontreal, Quebec
Artist's Statement
A macro journey through the life of plants—moss, seeds, ferns, and blooms—that echoes the colours and textures of fabric. This 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.
Artist's Statement
My art draws viewers towards playful reflection where colour, movement, and the nuance of life magically entangle, paying homage to the sacred essence of the present moment. My audience lands in the intriguing space between recognition and imagination—enticing their own creativity to continue the unfolding story.
Bio
Julie Amlin is a Toronto-based artist and muralist who celebrates colour, energy, and playfulness. Through large acrylic murals, paintings, and live art, she invites viewers to reconnect with joy and curiosity, awakening the inner child and transforming public and private spaces into vibrant, emotional experiences.
Moon Light Surface Mount Sconce, 2024 Metallic and reflective glazed ceramic
Olivia Barry/By HandToronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
Each Moon Light Surface Mount Sconce reflects light and movement over the surface and provides a meditative glow from within. They are made one at a time by hand from porcelain clay with a highly reflective metallic glaze finish.
Bio
Olivia Barry is a Canadian ceramic artist and industrial designer based in New York. After a decade-long apprenticeship under Eva Zeisel, she now creates sculptural lighting and artwork in her studio in the Hudson Valley, challenging the medium and blending hand-formed clay, pigment, and light. She is the recipient of three NYCxDesign awards, including one for her Mirror Moon Light Sconce.
Revival – Legacy, 2025Acrylic on canvas
Rachel TaggartToronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
In my Revival series, I explore transparency, layered shapes, and the balance between vibrant colour and earthy calm. Blending playfulness with a modern sophistication, each piece invites viewers to look beyond the surface—to find meaning in rhythm, depth, and the spaces in between.
Bio
Rachel Taggart is a self-taught Canadian artist based in Toronto, working professionally since 2001. She creates acrylic paintings across several series of abstraction and landscape. Her work has been featured in Canadian House & Home, on the Home and Garden Network, and commissioned by the United Nations, with global private and corporate collectors.
Randonnées aux îles, 2025Ink on canvas
Nature / Soho, 2025Ink and gouache on canvas
Karine LocatelliLes Éboulements, Quebec
Artist's Statement
Karine Locatelli's work focuses primarily on depicting landscapes in ink. She aims to put a contemporary spin on the pleinairiste tradition specific to the Charlevoix region of Quebec. She views live drawing as an essential step in accurately capturing a moment and maintaining a sincere and affectionate relationship with one's environment.
Bio
Karine Locatelli grew up in Lévis and now lives in the Charlevoix region. Through her landscape drawings, she continues the pleinariste tradition of her region. She has taken part in collective and solo exhibitions as well as artist residencies in Canada, Portugal, the United States, and France. In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul. Her works can be found in public and private collections, including those of the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Desjardins, and Hydro-Québec.
Flore / Pensée pour les nymphéas de Monet, 2025 Ink on canvas
Sapin de Noël (New York), 2025Ink on canvas
Karine LocatelliLes Éboulements, Quebec
Artist's Statement
Karine Locatelli's work focuses primarily on depicting landscapes in ink. She aims to put a contemporary spin on the pleinariste tradition specific to the Charlevoix region of Quebec. She views live drawing as an essential step in accurately capturing a moment and maintaining a sincere and affectionate relationship with one's environment.
Bio
Karine Locatelli grew up in Lévis and now lives in the Charlevoix region. Through her landscape drawings, she continues the pleinairiste tradition of her region. She has taken part in collective and solo exhibitions as well as artist residencies in Canada, Portugal, the United States, and France. In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul. Her works can be found in public and private collections, including those of the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Desjardins, and Hydro-Québec.
Elemental Worlds, 2025Digital animation on vertical LED screens
Rodeo FXMontreal, Quebec
Artist's Statement
A vertical voyage through elemental worlds, where nature and fashion levitate. Two towering LED screens guide visitors upwards through a sequence of surreal environments—ice formations, rocks, and wooden structures—where fashion objects and home accessories float in quiet suspension. Designed as a visual beacon, this two-minute loop invites exploration across all levels of the store.
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.
Artist's Statement
Water has been the backdrop for the significant events in my life. I work with oil paint on canvas, often exploring the memory myth of summer. The paintings are the map of my world, in both abstract and narrative form. I look for archetypes in an attempt to explore notions of self and community within the resonance of shared memory. As an avid swimmer and traveller, I am fascinated by people who holiday by the sea.
Bio
Canadian artist Elizabeth Lennie's paintings are included in the collections of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Sandals Resorts, Minto Hotels, UVA Health Medical and Orthopedic Centres, The Breakers Palm Beach, and most recently, on a variety of book covers for the North American and European markets.
Artist's Statement
For the six pieces that make up L'Acte d'Ornement I took familiar jewellery elements and exploded them into dynamic, unexpected forms to represent the powerful feeling we have when wearing the perfect accessory.
Bio
Born in the UK to British and Trinidadian parents, Antonia Akai-Casuccio moved to Canada at the age of six and has called Toronto home ever since. Obsessed with fashion from a very young age, Antonia has enjoyed a long and successful career in the industry, as both a designer and a visual merchandiser/display artist. She is the founder and creative director of The Loved One, designing and crafting bespoke bridal accessories and apparel for fashion-forward brides.
Moon Light Surface Mount Sconce, 2024 Metallic, reflective glazed ceramic Olivia Barry/By HandToronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
Each Moon Light Surface Mount Sconce reflects light and movement over the surface and provides a meditative glow from within. They are made one at a time by hand from porcelain clay with a highly reflective metallic glaze finish.
Bio
Olivia Barry is a Canadian ceramic artist and industrial designer based in New York. After a decade-long apprenticeship under Eva Zeisel, she now creates sculptural lighting and artwork in her studio in the Hudson Valley, challenging the medium and blending hand-formed clay, pigment, and light. She is the recipient of three NYCxDesign awards, including one for her Mirror Moon Light Sconce.
Inukshuk, 2022Archival ink print on paper Stand Tall, 2025Archival ink print on paper
Cat Marchese – Citybonez™Toronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
Uncovering hidden beauty within forgotten objects, I capture the splendour of our shared architectural legacy, igniting a sense of wonder and appreciation. Citybonez™ pays homage to bygone days through photography, preserving tales for the future. Each image tells a story, inviting us to value the significance of our collective heritage.
Bio
Cat Marchese is an award-winning, Toronto-born multidisciplinary artist. Passionate about history and its representation through art, Cat has been engaged in the creative community for over 20 years. Her focus is on preserving and celebrating heritage through fine art visual storytelling. Her work is included in a variety of permanent curated collections, including those at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and Michael Garron Hospital. It has also been featured in Our Homes magazine.
Let In A Flood Of Light And Mystery, 2025Ink, acrylic, denim, linen, and canvas
This One Wild And Precious Life, 2025Ink, acrylic, denim, linen, and canvas Lori HarrisonToronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
Lori's work is tactile; she uses textures—pieces of fabric sewn together, plaster, paints, and found objects—as a reminder of the importance of the physical, living world and to highlight what we stand to lose if we allow our attention to be diverted.
Bio
Lori Harrison is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. She initially gained recognition for her textile and furniture design work with notable commissions including from Canada House in London, England. In 2018, Lori shifted her focus to visual arts, returning to her roots. She is best known for her paintings that incorporate collage and sewn linen fabric to explore the intersection of the natural world and the manufactured world through the lens of entropy and disruption. Lori Harrison earned a BAH from Queen's University and a BFA from Concordia University. She has exhibited her work in numerous juried group shows and won several awards. Her work has been featured in House & Home magazine, Designlines magazine, and the book Toronto Makes. Her work is included in the collections of Park Hyatt Toronto, Madison Group, Earls Kitchen + Bar Restaurants, and in private collections across North America.
Artist's Statement
Lori's work is tactile; she uses textures-pieces of fabric sewn together, plaster, paints, and found objects-as a reminder of the importance of the physical, living world and to highlight what we stand to lose if we allow our attention to be diverted.
Bio
Lori Harrison is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. She initially gained recognition for her textile and furniture design work with notable commissions including from Canada House in London, England. In 2018, Lori shifted her focus to visual arts, returning to her roots. She is best known for her paintings that incorporate collage and sewn linen fabric to explore the intersection of the natural world and the manufactured world through the lens of entropy and disruption. Lori Harrison earned a BAH from Queen's University and a BFA from Concordia University. She has exhibited her work in numerous juried group shows and won several awards. Her work has been featured in House & Home magazine, Designlines magazine, and the book Toronto Makes. Her work is included in the collections of Park Hyatt Toronto, Madison Group, Earls Kitchen + Bar Restaurants, and in private collections across North America.
Double Crossed, 2024Archival ink print on paper
Dream Cream, 2022Archival ink print on paper
Take No Guff, 2025Archival ink print on paper
Tronna, 2025Archival ink print on paper
Cat Marchese – Citybonez™Toronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
Uncovering hidden beauty within forgotten objects, I capture the splendour of our shared architectural legacy, igniting a sense of wonder and appreciation. Citybonez™ pays homage to bygone days through photography, preserving tales for the future. Each image tells a story, inviting us to value the significance of our collective heritage.
Bio
Cat Marchese is an award-winning, Toronto-born multidisciplinary artist. Passionate about history and its representation through art, Cat has been engaged in the creative community for over 20 years. Her focus is on preserving and celebrating heritage through fine art visual storytelling. Her work is included in a variety of permanent curated collections, including those at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and Michael Garron Hospital, and has been featured in Our Homes magazine.
Chou One, Mediterranean-Feeling Palette, 2025Water-based paint and vinyl
Pascal PaquetteToronto, Ontario
Artist's Statement
My work is influenced by the humanistic mark-making traditions of painting, drawing, and graffiti. My process involves generating these simple hand movements on a regular scale, then enlarging their size exponentially, recomposing and adapting these now-gigantic details to the flow of a space, in this case the significant interior of Simons. Colour-palettes are a means of expressing temperament, running the gamut between hyper-energetic and tranquil. In this work for Simons, I used a palette that reminded me of the Adriatic Sea: warm, leisurely, fresh. It is common practice for me to evoke the feeling of nature in my artwork, especially of a place I've personally experienced. Perhaps these references are not obvious to everyone but the sensation that the composition and colour choices inspire are easily felt by anyone.
Bio
Pascal Paquette is a visual and experiential artist based in Toronto and working internationally. Paquette has developed and refined a style—a visual vocabulary—that's defined as abstraction, minimalism, and pop art. While he frequently paints in well-established settings, he brings the energy of nature to create visually rich and memorable environments.
Artist's Statement
Renée Condo's work explores the bead as a vessel of Mi'kmaq worldview, emphasizing Mntu (spirit) and heart knowledge, an ethic of empathetic care. Drawing parallels with quantum physics, her large-scale compositions highlight interconnectedness, fluidity, and reciprocity, where each bead holds infinite potential and reflects the whole within the part.
Bio
Renée Condo is a Mi'kmaq artist from Gaspésie, now based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her vibrant paintings and installations explore themes of land, identity, and Indigenous memory, often using geometric forms inspired by Mi'kmaq cultural traditions and cosmology.
À l'état brut, 2025Oil stick on raw canvas
Émergence, 2025Oil stick on raw canvas
Catherine LavoieQuebec City, Quebec
Artist's Statement
Although she will always be influenced by the large colour swaths characteristic of screen printing, Catherine has evolved her practice by exploring ceramic surfaces as a new medium for expression. She has adopted a more spontaneous, gestural approach, letting the material take on raw lines, irregular textures, and the deliberate imperfection of gestures.
This intuitive method permeates her entire practice, giving rise to works that are freer, more natural, and imbued with a full awareness of the present moment. Each mark left on the material becomes tangible evidence of the artist's gesture.
Nature is often the focus of Catherine's compositions, represented here as a force in motion; a perpetual transformation. Forms intertwine in a delicate balance, a controlled chaos where instinct guides the hand.
Bio
Catherine Lavoie is an artist from Montmagny, a town nestled between the river and the mountains. The gentle countryside that surrounds it—the islands, the ever-changing sky, and the natural tones—nourished her creativity and helped her develop her aesthetic sensibility.
Catherine has a BA in visual arts from Laval University and has developed a multi-disciplinary practice that includes drawing, printmaking, illustration, painting, and ceramics.
Her visual style is influenced by primitive art, vintage design, organic forms, and unexpected colour combinations. She creates sensitive, timeless, graphically appealing works.
Marion HébertQuebec City, Quebec
Artist's Statement
I use illustration to transform my photography into graphic fragments, like memories frozen in time. By stripping things back to their essence, I explore the line between emotion and structure, providing a lasting shape to the ephemeral.
Bio
Marion Hébert is a visual artist from Quebec City who explores materials and colour through her contemporary practice, which blends intuition and discipline. Her sensitive, thoughtful works convey a dialogue between space, gesture, and emotion, encouraging a contemplative experience.
