Based now in Toronto, Kożurno majored in decorative textile design and studied painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Art in Łódz, Poland.

Arriving in Canada in 2002, she worked under Toronto fashion designer Izzy Camilleri, collaborating on collections for international clients, boutiques, and the runway.

Then in 2008 she launched Eliza Kożurno Jewellery. Her work has been described as “pieces of wearable art” and featured on runways for Toronto Fashion Week, in Elle Canada, Toronto Life, commercials, film, and television. 

But in 2020, Kożurno returned to her passion for painting, creating still life pieces, meticulously harmonizing materials the way she did when creating jewelry and fashion.

She is on exhibition at the Roberts Gallery in Toronto through May 25, 2024.

Eliza Kożurno’s website, here.

The exhibition page at Roberts Gallery, here.

William Forrestall’s family art heritage underpins his poetic still life works, on exhibit beginning this weekend at   in Toronto.  (Above: Four Flowers in Blue, 23×31″)

Box O, Box O: Egg tempera on gessoed panel, 32×34, 2011

He is the son of renowned east coast artist Tom Forrestall.  The father’s art is classified as magic realism,  “an imprecise term used to describe the work of a coterie of east-coast Canadian painters who emerged after the Second World War, including Alex Colville and Christopher Pratt,” the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia notes.

William Forrestall has developed a unique perspective, says Paul Robinson, Director of  Kinsman Robinson.

William’s compositional and spacial relationships possess a poetic care and balance that one sees comparably in the still lifes by the Italian painter, Giorgio Morandi.  I believe that William’s artistic aim is to gently lead the viewer into his world of mysterious objects in a way which makes them worthy of careful consideration.

The exhibition opens Saturday (April 14) and runs through April 28, 2012.

More on William Forrestall, here.