Doris Pontieri is a Toronto-born Canadian artist known for her expressive, impressionistic approach to landscape and nature. Working in oil, acrylic, watercolour and mixed media, Pontieri paints intuitively, drawing primarily from emotion, memory and lived experience rather than direct observation. Her celebrated birch tree paintings are deeply personal, inspired by childhood memories of riding through winter landscapes with her mother. Through atmospheric compositions and expressive touches of colour, her work explores themes of resilience, hope and our emotional connection to the natural world.

Pontieri has exhibited extensively throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2012, she was selected to represent Canada at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, and the following year received the Silver Medal from the Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres in recognition of her career and body of work. Her paintings have been exhibited in Paris, Cannes, Brussels, London, Florence and Venice, with works selected by Marina Picasso for exhibition in Cannes. Her work has also been shown at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and is represented in notable private and institutional collections, including the Vatican private collection.