Amelia Valentine / I'll Always Answer

Amelia Valentine is a Toronto-based painter living and working in the city’s west end. Her practice centers around the dialogue between control and spontaneity, using ink, acrylic, and raw canvas to explore what happens when intention loosens its grip. Her compositions are shaped as much by deliberate mark-making as they are by the unexpected — spills, splatters, bleeds, and other so-called accidents that challenge traditional ideas of mastery and authorship.

Her paintings embrace this tension, resulting in work that feels raw, atmospheric, and intuitively composed. There’s a quiet confidence in letting go — an openness to letting materials speak for themselves, while still guiding the process with a discerning hand.

This piece is presented as part of our International Women's Day Exhibition, After You: The Broken Telephone Collection, running from March 6th to 8th. Over a year in the making, the Broken Telephone Collection began with one artist working from a reference photograph; each subsequent artist created a piece inspired by the one before her, and so on, and so forth.

Each acquisition from this collection will include a complimentary 11" x 8.5" print of the reference piece that precedes it. The inspiration piece for this artwork is the original reference photograph as seen here. Please note, all artworks will be shipped after the exhibition has concluded.