Many of Toby Jaxon’s series of woodland paintings depict the local geography, spell bound and mystical, illuminated by radiant flashes or beams, as light travels deep into the forest floor. Toby’s impressionistic acrylic ‘scapes’ verifying how colour creates impact and effect that stimulates the visual senses.

Toby affirms, “Nature is alive with vibrating colour and animating spirit; this observation is confirmed in the views I enjoy from my own backyard and informs my latest series of canvasses.” Her compositions are derived from vastness and mystery of nature. The under-painting lurks, popping sporadically, enough to persuade unification through the entire piece. Forward she develops a relationship of naïve colour shapes, in a variety of sometimes thick deliberate strokes, creating a dynamic rendition, a shock effect that changes the visual experience. Toby Jaxon’s canvas scenes flourish in vivid contrasting colour and multiple perspective.

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Over the years Toby Jaxon has lived and worked as a designer in Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver, submersed in urban culture. After moving to the mountains her art took a turn into a more pensive style. She clarifies, “That’s not to say that my paintings aren’t thick with spirit and colour but my contemporary designs are contemplative snaps that link west coast life with where the action sports takes place or might have just taken place! My art represents a peripatetic look at my existence and a life-long dedication to cultural autonomy.”

Surrounded by the tranquil coastal mountains, Toby is the creative owner of Jaxon Designstudio, a multi-disciplinary Art + Interior Design firm. She lives, plays, and works in the Sea to Sky corridor, cultivating a life magnetized by her surroundings.

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Toby Jaxon is the Curator of the Foyer Gallery in the Squamish Public Library. She is an art instructor, an active member of several arts societies and a dedicated volunteer directing local arts, cultural and gallery events. Toby has received numerous art awards and is a featured artist in ‘Artists of British Columbia’ Volume 3, 2012.

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Bio

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For Toby Jaxon, art is instinctive and natural but not always effortless!

Her public artistic career began early, at age six, winning a poster design contest. From pencil crayons and poster paints, Toby moved to oils and acrylics while attending high school in Prince George where she affected a hyperrealist technique that eventually taxed her patience — she was longing to develop a more expressive style. Later, during Art + Design college in Alberta, Toby experimented with other media and styles, finally settling on acrylics and eventually gravitating toward impressionistic landscapes. Since moving back to the West Coast in 1990, after spending five years in Toronto, Toby Jaxon’s art has appeared in galleries and public venues, solo exhibits, frequent café shows as well as private and corporate collections.

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Along with a strong passion for colour, Toby’s artistic inspiration springs from omnipresent nature and movement, elements that also inform her contemporary florals or portrait commissions. For more updates please check Toby's Facebook and website.

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