Artist Bio

Hazelle Palmer

 

Hazelle Palmer is a Toronto-based artist whose work embodies the diversity of her lived experiences. Hazelle has been an artist for over 30 years and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. In addition to private collections, her work has appeared on the covers of publications including “Tales from the Gardens and Beyond” and “Eyeing the North Star”.

 

Recent exhibits include:

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2022 Solo Exhibition, Lived Experience, at 2Gallery in Picton, Ontario

2022 Group Exhibition, Lost in Art, 360 Galleria Contemporanea in Florence, Italy

2023 Group Exhibition 2Gallery, Picton, Ontario

2024 Group Exhibition with BAND at the Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2025 Solo Exhibition, 12 Degrees Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2025 Solo Exhibition, Seeing Women, Akasha Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

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Artist Statement

 

Hazelle Palmer is drawn to a dynamic palette of rich, rustic tones that evoke the colours and memories of her childhood experiences in the 1970s and celebrate the tropical hues often associated with her Caribbean heritage. Fascinated by the ways in which she can add depth to her work, Hazelle explores how colour is used to define identity and how the use of texture and patterns bring those identities to life. She captures moments defined by her experiences. 

 

Hazelle Palmer's work is always evolving, from the abstract to collage to figurative depictions, but central is an element of perfect imperfection – often visible in how she blends colour, layers paper in collages, or the sometimes-awkward positions of the figures in her work — to suggest the challenges we all face fitting in.

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