Art Articles, Guides & Resources
Whether you're choosing your first painting, looking for ideas to display artwork, or simply interested in painting and art history, you'll find practical articles and reflections from Canadian artist Jeff Dillon.
What Is a Giclée Print? Limited Edition Fine Art Prints Explained
Learn what a giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") print is, how it differs from a regular art print or poster, and why I use archival pigment inks, museum-quality paper, canvas, and limited editions for...
What Size Art Should I Choose for My Room?
One of the questions I am asked most often is what size artwork someone should choose for their home. The answer depends on the wall, the furniture, and the feeling of the room, but a few simple gu...
How Colours Can Influence Your Emotions
Explore the subtle ways colour affects mood, energy, and emotional response in everyday spaces. Colour is never neutral. The blues and greens of a landscape painting can slow a room down, inviting ...
How Do You Incorporate New Art Into Your Home?
Thoughtful guidance on bringing new artwork into your home and letting it quietly shape the rooms around it. Bringing a new piece of art home is the beginning of a relationship, not just a decorati...
Are You Hanging Art at the Wrong Size?
How proportion and scale can transform a room and why getting the size right makes all the difference. One of the most common mistakes people make when hanging art is choosing a piece that is too s...
Living With Art Through the Seasons
Discover how rotating artwork through the year can subtly shift the mood and feeling of your living space. There is something quietly powerful about a home that changes with the year. We swap out t...
The Last Painting My Father Ever Saw: A Promise That Changed My Life
A deeply personal story about a single painting, a promise kept, and the weight of memory that shaped an artistic life. There are paintings that carry more than colour and composition. They carry t...
What Paint Do I Use? Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, and Why
One of the questions I get asked most often is what kind of paint I use. I used Golden Fluid Acrylics more in the past, but over the last few years I have moved mostly to Golden Heavy Body Acrylics...
Did You Know You Can Buy Canadian Art and Write It Off?
Collecting Canadian art can be both a cultural investment and a practical tax advantage. Here is what to know. Many Canadians don't realize that purchasing original art can qualify as a business ex...
Investing in Art: Living With the Work, Not Just Owning It
Investing in art is not only about financial value or the possibility that a piece may increase in worth over time. It is also about choosing original paintings and artwork that continue to bring m...
Slower painter: And Why I’m Okay With That
What slowing down has given me as an artist in a world that rewards speed and constant output. There is a quiet pressure in the art world to produce constantly, to post daily, to always have someth...
The Truth About Being a Full-Time Artist
What 16 years of daily practice as a full-time artist has taught me about creativity, discipline, and persistence. Being a full-time artist is not what most people imagine. It is not a life of insp...
The First New Blue in 200 Years & The Rarest Blue in My Studio
How a lab accident became a once-in-a-century (or two) pigment and what it means for my paintings. In 2009, chemists at Oregon State University accidentally discovered a new blue pigment, the first...
If They Were the Group of Seven… Why Are There Twelve
A closer look at the artists who shaped Canadian landscape painting and why the Group of Seven had more than seven. The Group of Seven is one of the most recognized names in Canadian art history, b...
Beyond the Frame: How the Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, and Emily Carr Changed Canadian Art
A look at the artists who challenged tradition, painted the Canadian landscape with new intensity, and helped shape a distinctly Canadian visual identity.
The Theft That Made The Mona Lisa Famous
Explore how the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from the Louvre transformed a quiet Renaissance portrait into the most famous painting in the world, turning mystery, media attention, pu...
Preserving the Beauty of Your Fine Art Prints
A practical guide to protecting your fine art prints over time, preserving their quality, colour, and value. A fine art print is made to last, but how you care for it makes all the difference. Ligh...
Does an Artist’s Name Matter When Buying Art?
An artist's name can affect how people see and value a piece of art, but it should not be the only reason someone brings a painting into their home. The name matters, but the connection to the work...
How Art Finds Its Place in a Room
Reflections on size, placement, and visual rhythm and how the right artwork settles naturally into a space. Choosing a painting is only half the decision. Where it lives in a room shapes everything...
The Art in Motion
A look at how movement, decisions, and time come together to build a painting from start to finish. Painting is not a static act. Every mark is a decision made in motion, a response to what came be...
Canadian Fine Art for Offices and Commercial Spaces
How Jeff Dillon collaborates with offices, designers, and commercial spaces to bring Canadian fine art into professional environments. Art in a commercial space does more than fill a wall. It commu...
A Part of My Story: How Nature, Colour, and Memory Shape My Paintings
The early influences and lived experiences that continue to shape Jeff Dillon's paintings today. Every painter carries a history into the studio. For me, that history is rooted in the Canadian land...
When Is a Painting Really Finished?
How I know when a painting is truly done and why the answer is rarely obvious, even after years of practice. Every painter wrestles with this question. There is always something more that could be ...
How to Light Artwork in Your Home
Quiet, practical considerations for how lighting shapes the way paintings live and breathe in a room. Lighting is one of the most overlooked aspects of displaying art at home. The wrong light can f...
The Art of Intention
What patience, presence, and deliberate decision-making look like in the daily practice of painting. Intention in painting is not about having a plan and following it. It is about being fully prese...
Everything You Need to Know About My Limited Edition Fine Art Prints & FAQ's
Materials, process, care, and what makes Jeff Dillon's limited edition fine art prints distinctive and collectible. Every limited edition print I release is produced to the highest archival standar...
Art Books That Shaped How I Paint
A personal list of books I return to for insight and lasting inspiration. Some books change the way you see. Not just the way you paint, but the way you look at the world, at light, at colour, at t...
A Moment for Reflection: Wildfires Across Canada
Holding space for loss, resilience, and the enduring beauty of the Canadian landscape through art. easily be replaced. As an artist whose work is rooted in that land, it is impossible to watch with...
At First Light: A Celebration of Spring’s Return
A quiet moment where light, memory, and nature meet.
There is a particular quality to the light in early spring that is unlike any other time of year. It is tentative and clear at the same time, ar...