🎨 Art Show & Sale – The Paintings of Jesus Estevez
🖼️ August 30 – September 19, 2025 | The Stone Room, Macaulay House
Step into a world of reflection, beauty, and quiet storytelling through the realist oil paintings of Jesus Estevez. This special Art Show & Sale will be held in the atmospheric Stone Room of the historic Macaulay House in Picton, Ontario.
🕐 Open Wednesday to Sunday | 1 PM – 4 PM
📍 Macaulay Heritage Park, 35 Church Street, Picton
Estevez's work draws inspiration from everyday surroundings—Ontario’s charming old downtowns, quiet residential streets, snow-covered bridges, familiar faces, and even fruit on the kitchen counter. His realist style captures these subjects with light, color, and emotional nuance, turning the seemingly mundane into something deeply alive.
“Time is a circle. It’s all happening at once. The past plus the present creates the future.”
Estevez invites you to reflect on heritage, craftsmanship, and the beauty often hidden in plain sight. Each painting becomes a moment of stillness—a visual story waiting to connect with your own.
All works are available for purchase. Admission is free. Come and let the paintings speak to you.
JESUS ESTEVEZ
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an oil painter, and I paint in the realist manner. My subjects are what I observe around me, such as; cityscapes, landscapes, still life compositions, portraits and animals. There is much beauty in our surroundings; I paint this so we can see the mundane as it really is, alive and full of beautiful colors and shapes. What captures my attention are subjects we can all relate to. I reflect what we all see around us everyday on my canvases.
I am very open to different subject matter; one day painting a sunrise, or a bridge after a big snow storm, and then onto the fruits that are on the kitchen counter, the face of an old friend or my dog.
The most important criteria in choosing a subject is the way it plays with the light which can change a boring cityscape into a gorgeous one, and to me that is where my work starts, looking at my surroundings and getting inspired.
I find painting as many other arts a way of communication, so I communicate the beauty that I find in front of me.
I could keep going on talking about my paintings…., But what I really would like is that my paintings talk to you. Take your time looking at them and they will tell you their history, their beauty their inner life and they will tell you something about all that in yourself.
ART CURRICULUM
Born in Villalonga, Valencia, Spain, in 1957
High school completed in Valencia in the Benlliure Institute 1975
College of Industrial Engineering, Alcoy 1975 until 1978 studies in technical drawings
1978 until 1980 completed compulsory military service as a corporal in the Spanish navy
1981 arrived in Canada to study English at Algonquin college where the Toffel exam was passed
1984 studied fine arts at the University of Ottawa for three years
1985-1987 taught children Spanish in the Spanish Immigrant Society School in Ottawa
1988 taught Spanish in private tutorials to the future Canadian ambassador to Spain and his family
1987 until 1991 exposing and selling oil paintings in Ontario, mainly Ottawa. Proprietor of a small gallery on Cumberland Street in Ottawa where I designed a course and taught in my studio/gallery space to adults in oil painting techniques
1990-1991 Designed and taught an oil painting course which was adopted by the Ottawa Board of Education Continuing Education Program
1990-1991 Designed and taught an oil painting course called, Techniques of the Great Masters, for the Ottawa School of Art in the Byward Market
1991 left for Spain and lived and worked there for 16 years dedicating most of my time to jewelry design. I continued to paint when possible and showed once in Villalonga.
2007 returned to Canada opening a gallery of art and jewelry in Belleville.
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