Apple Blossoms

About Apple Blossoms

In this delightful impressionistic landscape by Bernice Martin, three apple trees in blossom announce the arrival of spring. Martin’s paintings were inspired by the Ontario scenery she grew up in. Her form—small, visible brushstrokes and colour palette—soft pinks, blues, greens and brown are reminiscent of the famed Group of Seven.

"I look back on my life and my painting hours were the happiest. I'd spend long hours and forget time…my time was always measured by the passage of light." Bernice Fenwick Martin

She was born in Shelburne Ontario in 1902 and studied at the Ontario College of Art under renowned Canadian artists J.W. Beatty and Franklin Carmichael (member of the Group of Seven). Martin went on to study and became friends with Peter Clapham Sheppard, an impressionist painter whom she worked with until his death in 1965. Martin's works have been exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy from 1945-1947, the T. Eaton Co.'s College Street Fine Art Gallery, Casa Loma, the Quebec Museum of Fine Arts, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her paintings may be found in many private, corporate, and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada.