Collecting with Intention: Canadian female artists to know

With International Women's Day approaching, I wanted to highlight a few Canadian artists whose work feels especially relevant when thinking about art in the home. Art can define a space, anchor a room, or gently shift how a space feels - and there’s something powerful about choosing work created by women navigating unique perspectives and practices.

The artists below are all represented by Tacit Collective, a Toronto-based platform dedicated to supporting women and gender-diverse artists.

Amelia Valentine

A painter based in Toronto, Amelia Valentine creates abstract work that explores the intersection of accident and intention. Working with ink, acrylic, resin, and occasionally glass, her compositions weave colour, gesture, and texture in ways that feel both intuitive and intentional. Her pieces translate beautifully into interior settings where soft abstraction can provide depth, movement, or a calm focal point without shouting for attention.

An Eternity This Afternoon, SOLD 48x60

I'll Always Answer, Ink and Acrylic on Canvas 48x36

Amelia Valentine

Daniella Williams

Daniella Williams works within classical figurative painting, exploring themes of intimacy, voyeurism, and the vulnerability of being seen. Her pieces feel atmospheric, showcasing expressive brushwork and a confident palette. There’s a quiet tension in her work that invites you to pause - paintings that hold presence within a space rather than simply filling a wall.

Sunday Read, SOLD 24x30

When the Sun Hangs Over the Palms, Oil on Canvas 24x30

Daniella Williams

Victoria Sequeira

Victoria Sequeira is a self taught, Portuguese-Canadian artist whose work explores the tension between beauty and discomfort within the human experience. Working primarily in acrylic, she creates expressive figurative pieces that feel layered and emotionally charged. There’s a sense of depth and introspection in her work - paintings that bring both softness and strength into a space, and resonate well in interiors that can support art with presence and feeling.

Immortalizing their Stories, SOLD Acrylic on Canvas

The Offering, SOLD Acrylic on Canvas

Victoria Sequeira

Pooja Pawaskar

Pooja Pawaskar is an Indian-born Canadian artist whose practice centers on sculpture and ceramics. With a background in architecture and furniture design, her work carries a strong sense of structure and material sensitivity. She creates sculptural vessels and forms that explore restraint, and transformation. Her pieces feel grounding and tactile - objects that bring depth and dimension to a space beyond the wall.

In the Gaps Left Behind, Rocking Wooden Sculpture

Liv Ikebana-Style Vase, Spalted Beech Wood

Pooja Pawaskar

Katie Kohls

Katie Kohls - based in Peterborough, ON - makes pieces that bridge art and function. Most notably her mirror works. These sculptural mirrors are not only reflective surfaces but also designed objects that can elevate an interior through contour, scale, and presence. A mirror can expand a space, play with light, and feel deeply intentional - especially when its shape is as considered as Kohls’ designs.

Pebble Mirror, Art Glass, Copper Foil, Mirror

Pebble Mirror, Art Glass, Copper Foil, Mirror

Katie Kohls

Why This Matters Now

Collecting art is as much about conversation as decoration.

Choosing work by women-in-practice - especially within your own country - supports artistic voices that have historically been underrepresented in galleries and private collections. Platforms like Tacit aim to shift that balance, spotlighting artists whose work enriches both the cultural landscape and the spaces we live in.

As we approach International Women's Day, consider letting intentional art choices be part of how you celebrate creative expression, perspective, and the women shaping visual culture - one space at a time.

Art isn’t just for walls, it’s for connection.