 CREDIT: Siobhan Mlacak |
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PAINTINGS Currently on Display
Chanson des Fleurs
oil on canvas, 18 x 24
Plein de Vie
oil on canvas, 24 x 30
Red Glory
oil, 11 x 14
Barns, Edelweiss Valley
oil, 20 x 24
Flower Swirl
oil, 11 x 14
SOLD
Les couleurs du marais
oil, 40 x 50
SOLD
Les maisons, Mansonville
oil, 16 x 20
Lac Mulvihill, Gatineau
oil, 11 x 14
Yardscape, Avon Lane New Edinburgh
oil, 24 x 30
SOLD
Les chutes. La Petite Nation
oil, 16 x 20
John Mlacak - Biography
An artist for all seasons - oils his forte
Kanata artist, John Mlacak is a passionate outdoor oil painter. His work captures both the bold and subtle colours of the Canadian seasons and the vibrant red and green roofs of Québec farm buildings and towns. He is fascinated by the play of light and shade weaving through trees and over the white torrent of rapids and waterfalls.
While John creates large oil canvases of stone terraces, flower-filled gardens, porches and impressionistic scenes of yesteryear, he returns frequently to the grandeur of the Canadian landscape. His en plein air paintings journey through such magnificent locations as Gatineau Park , Rivière Rouge and the Charlevoix area of Québec. Other paintings reflect scenes in Ottawa-Carleton and travel in the Maritimes, New England and Europe . He views his art as an extension of his former interest in design work as an engineer.
John has been painting for over 25 years and is a full-time artist who enjoys a steady demand for his work. His paintings are exhibited in local, Ontario and Québec galleries and he is represented in private and corporate collections in Canada , the United States , Europe , South America , Australia , Korea and Indonesia .
John has studied with a number of renowned artists. He was influenced by the late Canadian artists Brodie Shearer and Bruce Heggtveit, and greatly admires Canada 's own Group of Seven, Tom Thomson and the French Impressionists. John participates in numerous group and solo shows annually and has won many awards for his art in juried exhibitions. John is well respected for his repeated generosity in providing work to a considerable number of charities.
In the spring of 2004, John was awarded first in oils at the Ottawa Art Association's 85th Anniversary juried show at the National Gallery of Canada. John participates annually in the Ottawa Art Festival and the Elmwood Art & Home Fair in Ottawa . The Mayor of Ottawa, Bob Chiarelli, invited John to exhibit his paintings at Ottawa City Hall in the Council Chambers in early December, 2004. John is a founding member of the Kanata Artists Studio Tour and the Kanata Civic Art Gallery .
SOS Children's Villages Canada selected John as a 1997 featured Canadian artist and reproduced his oil painting, "Ste-Marie-de-Charlevoix" as a Christmas card. The card proved to be very popular and SOS made it available again in 1998 and 1999. Canadian Health Services Research Foundation purchased a painting of John's and featured it on the cover and throughout their Annual Report in 2002. There was a cover photo and feature article on John in Due West Magazine in 2003. In it's March-April 2004 issue, Diplomat & International Canada, the news journal for Canada 's international community covered John's solo show at the Croatian Embassy. Magazin'Art, a Québec publication, profiled John and his work in it's autumn, 2004 issue, and since 2002 has listed him in it's Biennial Guide to Canadian Artists in Galleries. The Ottawa Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and the Kanata Kourier-Standard all covered John's participation in Big Brothers Big Sisters Fine Art Auction in October, 2004 as Honourary Art Patron. In August, 2005, John was featured in an article by Alex Munter, in the Ottawa Citizen titled, "In search of Ottawa 's most creative postal code".
John retired in 1994 after a 35-year career with Bell-Northern Research. For 11 years he was active in local and regional municipal politics in Ottawa . He served a three-year term as a Commissioner on the National Capital Commission and was a member of the Visual Identity Advisory Committee of the Ottawa Transition Board during 2000 when it recommended some of the civic symbols for the new amalgamated City of Ottawa .
In addition to his interest in music and politics, John enjoys cycling, walking and photography.
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