Maggie Broda

I enjoy all areas of drawing, painting and creating and specifically work with colours to speak about my subjects, which are often figures engaged in an activity such as playing sports or music. There is something mystical about how people have an aura a mood which is produced by colour, inclination is determined from the lines I choose and the texture develops with the layering of the medium.
With the physicality of my work, I am drawn to the texture of paint as it builds up and reaches out. I use drawing and painting to capture the mood and feelings of what I experience and enjoy the challenge and connection of trying to communicate them in a concrete manner. The actions of people fascinate me - not their faces or clothes or bodies so much, but their actions and disciplines.

Maggie Broda OCT, BFA, AOCA is a painter, educator and an art and environmental activist who travels between Toronto, Muskoka and the U.K. Maggie has always painted with passion and purpose. Her work has been exhibited in many Toronto locations and is in private collections including the Hamilton's Women's Art Association, Anglican Church of Canada and others. She is represented in Toronto by the Annex Art Centre, and the Elaine Fleck Gallery, in Muskoka by the Limberlost Studio and the Muskoka Arts and Craft Group Maggie dedicates energy to placing art in the core structure of public education with a particular emphasis on introducing new comers to Canada to the magnificence of the landscape.

Maggie has been nominated twice for the EECC award for outstanding work in environmental education and has earned several grants from Canada Trust Friends of the Environment to apply her work in art education. She has written critical Art curriculum and prepared detailed exemplars for the Ministry of Education. She leads watercolour painting seminars throughout the province in particular on site at Algonquin Park during July and August for people of all ages and is highly sought for her dynamic watercolour seminars to educate teachers and teacher candidates. She currently holds the position of President of the OCAD Alumni Association.