Waller-Yoblonsky Fine Art

Ms. Karslake is best known for her rapidograph pen drawings with endless architectural details.  Rapidograph pens were once technical pens used as a mainstay for designers and illustrators.  When computer graphics came along, it made these pens almost obsolete.  Yet artists like Karslake still uses these type of pens for her artwork.  Case in point, in 2014 the Hudson (Ohio) Public Library had an exhibit of her drawings that included architectural renderings from a lifetime of work.  The exhibit included her artwork from 1971 through 2013, and could be considered a retrospective.  This exhibit showed her skill with a rapidograph ink pen.  She frequently applied ink to three-ply bristolboard for her drawings. Karslake has lived in the Hudson area for over forty plus years.  Hudson is in the suburbs of Akron and Cleveland.  It was in this community she earned a living by being a second-grade teacher and it was here that she also participated in numerous art workshops that sharpened her

Downes is frequently cataloged as a Canadian artist; it is an unnecessary sociological tendency to classify an artist according to their country.  He was a man that lived larger than life, and those two words - “Canadian artist” - hems him in and fails to tell the whole story. Born in England, raised in Canada with art training in both Canada and the United States, a war artist with the Royal Air Force (1940-45)* and his life intersected with a list of Who’s Who in art.  Stylistically his work stands out from the numerous artists who worked in mid-century England, France and North America. His expressionistic-realism is raw, refreshing and unique.   In the painting “Old Town - Québec” below, Downes uses his expressionist painterly style from the mid-1950s to create a cityscape painting. Downes centers the composition at the intersection of Rue Garneau and Côte de la Fabrique where the historic Maison Larchevêque-Lelièvre was started in 1727. The trapezoidal stone building comes with it