Victoria Wallace is a talented artist known for her captivating paintings that blend realistic subjects with dreamlike, surrealistic settings. Her artistic expertise spans across various mediums, including acrylic, encaustic, and mixed media .
As an art educator, Victoria shares her skills through workshops and classes, inspiring others to explore their creativity. Her artwork often features a mix of disparate elements, such as animals, maps, and natural beauty, combined in innovative ways. If you're interested in learning more about her work or upcoming exhibitions, I recommend checking out her official website or social media profiles
She teaches at the Haliburton School of Art and Design (Haliburton), Fleming College (Peterborough), the Art Gallery of Peterborough, The Art School of Peterborough, Station Gallery (Whitby), LucSculpture (Toronto), Humber College Assembly Hall (Toronto), various other public and private educational institutions. She operated a successful mural and specialty paint finish company in Toronto for over 25 years. 
Her broad ranging professional skills are reflected in her professional affiliations with many top artists’ paint manufacturers in Canada and the US, as an Advanced Artist Educator with R&F Encaustics, Kingston, NY, with Golden Paints, New Berlin, New York, as a part of their Golden Artist Educator Program, with the Tri-Art Acrylic Education Program, Tri-Art Mfg. Kingston, Ontario. She is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Society of Canadian Artists, and has been awarded several grants from the Ontario Arts Council.

Victoria Wallace Artist Statement 

My paintings contain a combination of photo-realistic subject matter in dream-like, surrealistic settings. This often includes subtley allegorical interplay, both esoteric and more broadly accessible. Viewers will find my work is also infused with the 'trompe l’oeil' influence I mastered during my many years of mural painting. 

I see myself as a realist gone awry, with my conceptual artistic ventures hovering somewhere between surrealistic narratives and that of magic realism, which paints a realistic view of the world while also adding magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.  This frees me to indulge my passions for painting birds, insects, and animals, interiors, exteriors, cityscapes and landscapes, people/characters I meet, conversations that inspire me visually, where I've lived and the places I visit. 

My preferred painting media are acrylic and encaustic, often combining dry media, such as Conté, pastels, charcoal, graphite, coloured pencils, water soluble drawing media, crayons, but also including oil paints and sticks, ink, archival markers, Washi, collage elements, mica, and more.