Mirren Hinchley Art

Mirren Hinchley is an emerging, abstract painter who after a successful career took up painting in this exciting new chapter of her life. Her painting process is based on experiential learning. She has been able to let herself go & express her creativity every time she starts a new canvas. She wants her paintings to reveal her joy of colour & texture, to entice & inspire the viewer to think & talk about what they have just seen. Her works have been displayed in juried Canadian gallery shows but also galleries in Milan, the UK & Venice.

Studied under:

Catherine Shea, Catherine Shea Art Studio

Instituto Allende, San Miguel, Mexico

Kim-Lee Kho, Haliburton School of the Arts and independently

Suzanne Metz, ArtEmbassy School of Art

Steve Rose, Artbarn Art School

Memberships

Gallery1313, 2021 - 

Heliconian Club, Visual Arts Section, 2022 - 2023

Propeller Art Gallery, 2022 - 2023

The Artists Network, 2021 - 2022

Volunteer Work

Heliconian Club, one of the conveners for Warm & Wild group show, June 2022, & Nocturn group show, December 2022

Propeller Art Gallery, Board Secretary, June 2022 - March 2023

  In my painting process I have learned to overcome adversity & embrace risk & vulnerability. Physically & emotionally, I feel empowered, liberated from self-imposed constraints. This transformation in myself has provoked new techniques & colour palettes. My paintings have a new look & feel. There has been an organic evolution in my style. My colours have become more dynamic, my marks bolder, twisting, curving, spiraling & slashing in all directions across the canvas using credit cards, brushes & sponges. I have found a way to express my inner emotions. Creative energy has been released that has been pent up in me I have let myself go & let it flow out of me onto the canvas. I have discovered my true self. Painting has become the anchor in my ever-evolving life.

• ARTISTS  PROJECT, Gallery1313 Group Show, April 13-16, 2023, Better Living Centre, Toronto
• ART AUCTION FOR UKRAINE, juried group show, hosted by Wavefront in partnership with Elaine Fleck Gallery, to benefit the Ukrainian World Foundation, March 29 & 30, 2023. 
• FLECK FINE ART EXHIBITION MARCH 2023, group show, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, March 1 - 31, 2023. Toronto
• NOCTURNE, Winter Group Art Exhibit, Heliconian Club, Visual Arts Section, Dec. 1 - Jan. 29, 2023
• FLECK FINE ART EXHIBITION NOVEMBER 2022, group show, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, November 9 - 26, 2022
• RETROFIT, solo show, Gallery 1313, Cell Gallery, Toronto, Oct. 12-23, 2022
• ARTWALK IN THE SQUARE, juried online show, Artists Network, Toronto, September 16 - September 25
• ENCOUNTER '22, New Members Art Show, Heliconian Club, Visual Arts Section, Toronto, September 8 - October 5, 2022
• SPLASH, SOLO SHOW, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, August 24-September 11, 2022
• ART UP, group show, Gallery 1313, Process Gallery, Toronto, August 3 - 14, 2022
• WARM & WILD, group show, Heliconian Club, Visual Arts Section, Toronto, June 30 - September 7, 2022
• THE RIVERDALE ARTWALK, juried online show, Artists Network, Toronto, June 19-26, 2022
• ARTBOX.PROJECT VENEZIA 1.0 at the Biennale ArtBox Expo, online show, Venice, May 1 - 31, 2022
• I AM HERE: Home Movies & Everyday Master Pieces, part of PORTRAITS OF RESILIENCE, juried online show, AGO, Toronto, April 13 - August 14, 2022
• THE LIVING EARTH EXHIBITION, Heliconian Club, Visual Arts Section, March 31 - May 4, 2022
• PI ART SQUARED EXHIBIT, juried show, Art Alchemy, Toronto, March 11-20, 2022
• A SEX SHOW, juried online group show, Gallery 1313, Toronto, February 2 - 28, 2022
• SALON 16: LOVE IS IN THE AIR, online show, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, January 24 - February 13, 2022
• 25th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT , juried online show, Gallery 1313, Toronto, January 19 - February 28, 2022
• WINTER EMERGING ARTIST EXHIBITION, juried online show, Gallery 1313, Toronto, January 5-22, 2022
• THE END - A YEAR END SALE, juried show, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Nov. 24-Dec. 12, 2021
• TRANSFORMATION, SOLO SHOW, Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Nov. 10 - 21, 2021
• INSPIRED BY THE ARTS, juried art show, Leslie Grove Gallery, Toronto, Nov. 10 - 28, 2021
• ARTSIDEOUT (ASO), juried online one-day, multidisciplinary arts festival, University of Toronto Scarborough, Oct. 7, 2021
• DE.MO, juried international online exhibition, M.A.D.S Art Gallery, Milan, Italy, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, September 9 - 24, 2021
• TORONTO COLLETION, juried online exhibition, Gallea Art Exhibits, Aug. - Dec. 2021
• ONTARIO COLLECTION, juried online exhibition, Gallea Art Exhibits, Aug. - Dec. 2021
• SENSUALITY, juried international online exhibition, Virtual Artists, Essex. UK, August 29 - September 12, 2021
• JOY OF SUMMER, juried art exhibition, Art of Emotions Fine Art Gallery, Toronto, August 16 - 31, 2021
• SALON DES REFUSES, juried art exhibition, Leslie Grove Gallery, Toronto, July 14 - August 1, 2021
• SUMMER TIME EXHIBIT 2021, juried art exhibition, Gallery 1313, Toronto, June 23 - July 25, 2021
• COMING OUT, juried international art exhibition, M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Milan, Italy, June 25- July 4, 2021
• OPENING OUR DOORS, juried art exhibition, Leslie Grove Gallery, June 23 - July 11, 2021 
• THE ART OF RESILIENCE, online art gallery, AGO, March 15 - June 25, 2021 
• BIG BOLD RISK, online juried group show, Leslie Grove Gallery, Feb. 23 - March 14, 2021
• EMERGING ARTISTS SHOW, Catherine Shea Studio, Yonge Eglinton Centre, May 2021