Woodwynn Farm, or Saanich for Me

Woodwynn Farm, or Saanich for Me, 1989. Acrylic painting by Christel Tompa

Woodwynn Farm, or Saanich for Me, 1989. Acrylic painting by Christel Tompa

Name/Title

Woodwynn Farm, or Saanich for Me

Entry/Object ID

2016.04.05

Description

Painting This colourful image is a view across hayfields to hills at Woodwyn Farm in Saanich which was returned to the Tsartlip First Nation by the Province of B.C. in 2020. Saanich is a district municipality on Vancouver Island within the Greater Victoria area. The landscape is painted in broad strokes and divided roughly in thirds from bottom to top, golds, greens and blues.

Type of Painting

Easel

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Subject Place

Region

Pacific Northwest

Continent

North America

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Christel Tompa

Role

Painter

Date made

1989

Time Period

20th Century

Notes

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Born in Finland, Christel Tompa is a Canadian painter known for her still-life and landscape works, now mostly in watercolour. Tompa arrived in Canada in the mid 1970s. Her early work was done in Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Hungary. She is a member of The Pender Island Arts Society, and she showed at the Victoria Regional Juried Art show in 1990.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature, Date

Location

Signed and dated lower left: C. Tompa '89

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Visible image

Height

50.8 cm

Width

61 cm

Acquisition

Notes

Detail unknown