A Toronto apartment that doubles as an art gallery
Charlie lives among walls of art, much of it for sale, and runs her art shop and gallery visits from her Toronto home.
Charlie runs an art shop from her Toronto apartment. Most of the work on her walls is for sale through Instagram. You can also book a visit to see it in person. She keeps the commissions and the pieces she collected for herself.
Her collection started with a painting of a steel plant in Hamilton. Charlie studied materials engineering, and she loved that an artist made such an everyday subject so bright. The dining room centres on her first commission. Brent Hardisty, an Indigenous artist in Toronto, painted it in the Woodland style. Art dolls by Charlotte Sigurdson of Winnipeg and sculptures by her friend Mariana sit nearby.
The apartment holds her life outside art too. Charlie trained in classical music as a child and still plays the piano in a corner with busts of composers. A grandfather clock reminds her of her parents' home. Her IKEA lanterns stayed up after Chinese New Year. They feel festive and remind her of her heritage. With no balcony, she made her own view from shelves of plants and hanging baskets, like the ones at her grandmother's place.
She doesn't watch much TV, so she turned the old TV wall into another gallery wall.
