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.
