A multi-awarded Canadian art legend and recipient of the Order of Canada, Toni Onley is best known for his spare, formal landscapes of Canada’s West Coast.

In the early 1990s, Onley returned to pure abstract form, producing small paper collages in parallel with his watercolour landscape work. In Onley's words,

“The attitude that goes into my collages goes into my landscapes: it’s the same, I don’t see any big difference, except that, with one I’m dealing with a subject matter, with the other I’m dealing with pure abstract form.”