Welcome to Ottawa Valley Art Studio!
Want to step into the world of art and explore your painting potential?
Want to learn how to see subjects differently?
Want to lean to draw not copy?
Want to learn to paint air, rain, wind and create the illusion of fragrance in the air?
Dive into a journey to awaken your inner painter!
Discover the online and in-person courses and workshops offered
WINTER 2026
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ONLINE ART CLASSES
Explore the available online packages to fit your life style the best
IN-STUDIO ART CLASSES
Learn to create in a small group of students at the Art Studio located in a suburb of Ottawa, Canada
ONLINE FREE TUTORIALS
Practice FREE tutorials
Gallery of Student’s Work
Get inspired by the student’s work.
ANY QUESTIONS?
QUESTIONS?
There is no wrong question. Find answers in the FAQ.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
My name is Iya Carson, I am Canadian artist and a founder of Ottawa Valley Art Studio. My goal is to help all my students to be able to see and analyze the world we live in. I teach how to create an illusion of perspective and 3D shapes.
IN-BETWEEN PHOTO BOOK
IN-BETWEEN PHOTO BOOK
IN-BETWEEN is a meditation on places that linger, spaces that exist not on maps, but in the quiet territory between once life and another. Ottawa’s familiar silhouettes rise and dissolve like fragile recollections, softened by weather, time and passing thought. Streets blue into suggestions, houses lean toward memory, and the sky holds the hush of unspoken belonging. To live between two countries is to carry two versions of the self: one rooted in memory, the other learning to bloom again. these landscapes reflect that duality – a terrain shaped by light and shadow, where past and present overlap like transparent washes of paint. In Between is not a location. It is a way of seeing. A way of being held gently by two worlds at once.
YOU ARE INVITED!
Join me for In-Between, my upcoming solo watercolour exhibition, a poetic exploration of Ottawa and the quiet spaces between memory, place, and belonging.
Shenkman Art Centre, 245 Centrum Blvd, Orleans, Ottawa, ON, Canada
From January 26th to March 6th, 2026
Opening Reception: February 5th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Free admission & parking
I would love to see you there 🤍
