Emily Luks member gallery Botanical Artists of Canada. Botanical art painting and drawing courses, events, exhibitions and workshops. Flower and plant paintings and drawings.

Emily Luks

Peruvian born Canadian artist Emily Luks received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1989, shortly prior to immigrating to Canada. Emily's passion for her art has led her to work, throughout her career, in a range of different medias including oils, gouache, graphite pencil and photography.

Since her first exhibition in Peru in 1968, Emily's compositions have been displayed in many international group and solo shows. Specifically, her work has been exhibited in a variety of Canadian institution including the Royal Ontario Museum, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, University of Toronto, York University, OCAD Outreach Gallery, The John B. Aird Gallery, The Blue Dot Gallery, and Canada Blooms. Her art work has also appeared in the United States at The Ironwood Gallery in Tucson, Arizona with The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, the Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia with the American Society of Botanical Artists, and is part of the permanent collection at the Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson Arizona. In their May 2006 issue, the American Orchid Society published Emily’s work, which has now found homes in different public, corporate and private collections around the world; in Argentina, Canada, France, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Peru, USA and Switzerland.

Emily is a member of The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and the American Society of Botanical Artists. She is the founding member of Origins, a group that specializes in botanical and floral painting, whose aim is to improve the standards and raise awareness of botanical art in all its forms. Origins held its first joint exhibition in 1999, with over 75 works. This private, three-day showing attracted over 400 people. Origins exhibited in a special collection at the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum). As a community charity effort, Origins painted a life size moose in the botanical mode in the Toronto outdoor Moose Art Exhibition of 1999, which was subsequently sold for over $10,000. Emily has also served as Vice-Chair of The Botanical Artists of Canada and still contributes to many coordinating group activities. She leads Creativity & Drawing workshops in Peru, which have been extremely successful, and has signed on to continue teaching there. She sits on the Board of Directors of Thermos del Peru, a leading manufacturing company and importers of fine brands like: Thermos, Char Broil, Crayola and Coleman. Currently, she is working on a project with Crayola to donate products for the Nyumbani Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya; this is an orphanage for children who are HIV positive and have no living relatives. The home takes care of about 100 children and has a very good outreach program in some of the major slums of Nairobi.

Artist Statement

Art in my life is a space to create, a mystery to evoke, a constant process. Drawing is pure creativity, a pleasure I cannot refuse myself.

elart[at]rogers.com
416 441 1992

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