Artists
Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher has travelled extensively throughout Canada and other countries. His experiences have led to a rich array of paintings. "It is natural for me to tell stories and to express my experiences visually. To do this requires more than just seeing a subject. It requires that I live it, be part of it, and connect with it. Each painting tells a story, related to experiences like drawing pay as a hired hand in central Alberta or taking shelter in abandoned coastal villages of Newfoundland. Through colour and line, I bring you pieces of your land, my experiences, our story." Mark is also a highly accomplished Celtic/folk musician who plays guitars, mandolin, 5-string banjo, short neck bouzouki, Irish flute, Irish whistles, accordion, bodhran, Scottish smallpipes, Highland bagpipes, Welsh pibgyrn, keyboards and -- last but not least! -- various percussion instruments.
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Yana Movchan
Yana’s sublime mastery of the technique and structure of Renaissance painting combines with the instinctive symbolism of “magical realism” to create a personal neo-realist idiom. Her work is formal, yet playful; contemporary, yet timeless; and joyous, yet mysterious, evocative and dreamlike.
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Oksana Movchan
Oksana Movchan is an internationally recognized print maker and a graduate of the National Academy of Art in Kyiv, Ukraine. Working in multiple medias Ms. Movchan has participated in gallery and solo shows in Europe, North America as well as Southwest and Central Asia.
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Vitaliy Movchan
Vitaliy Movchan was born in the village of Dmytrivko in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine. In 1976 he completed his training at the Kyiv State Institute and in 1982 became a member of the Artist's Union of Ukraine. A graphic artist by training, Vitaliy Movchan's art techniques include painting and drawing.
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Kornelija Ozolina
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Elena Herweijer
Born in Kyiv (Ukraine), since 2009 lives and works in Canada. A member of National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1999. 1990 — 1996 studied in National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Ukraine). Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts with Major in Graphic Art Design. 1996 Thesis has earned the award: "The Best Project of the Faculty of Graphic Design for Visual Style for Young Theatre (Kyiv, Ukraine). 1988 — 1990. Studied academic drawing & painting in the studio of the leading Ukrainian artists A.Аgaphonov and G.Grigorjeva (Kyiv, Ukraine).
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Alexandra McCurdy
Alexandra McCurdy, ceramist/printmaker/independent curator, works in porcelain making highly decorative, one-of-a-kind, colourful pieces, informed by her long-standing interest in textiles. Her conceptual work is both personal and accessible, highlighting women’s symbols and icons. She has lately branched into prints on paper, using women’s clothing as plates.
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Camilla Geary-Martin
Camie creates a diverse selection of intimate and engaging bronze sculptures. Her work is unique and experimental with a strong focus on the human form. A broad array of life experiences have influenced her as an individual and now inform her sculpture.
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Jonathan Otter
Beginning in 2004, Jonathan Otter- Furniture Maker was in operation and has experienced greater recognition than could have been foreseen. In that same year, Jonathan was awarded Juried Status from the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council for both creativity and workmanship.
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Sorel Etrog
Sorel Etrog is known mainly for his sculptural practice; his paintings, made in the face of the hegemony of Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s and ‘70s, countered high modernism by using modernism’s ‘tools’ against its instrumentalism. These concerns were typical of attitudes during the Cold War, and they have relevance to us today in the current world of new problems and issues. Etrog had long-standing associations with both Beckett and Ionesco; his post-modern questioning of the human condition emerges in these paintings as much as it does in his sculpture - and his art, as seen here, is of a piece with the work of both Beckett and Ionesco – like them he shows us some angst and a way out of that angst.
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Jean-Paul Riopelle
Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC, GOQ (7 October 1923 – 12 March 2002) was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. Born in Montreal, he studied under Paul-Émile Borduas in the 1940s and was a member of Les Automatistes movement. He was one of the signers of the Refus global manifesto. In 1949 he moved to Paris and continued his career as an artist, where he commercialized on his image as a "wild Canadian". In 1959 he began a relationship with the American painter Joan Mitchell.[1] Living together throughout the 1960s, they kept separate homes and studios near Giverny, where Monet had lived. They influenced one another greatly, as much intellectually as artistically, but their relationship was a stormy one, fueled by alcohol.[2] The relationship ended in 1979.[3] His 1992 painting Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg is Riopelle's tribute to Mitchell, who died that year, and is regarded as a high point of his later work.
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Mashel Teitelbaum
Mashel Teitelbaum was born in 1921 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan with Hilda J. Stewart (1939-1941) before serving in the Canadian Army Reserve. Following the war Teitelbaum found the Red Door Gallery in Regina in 1946. In the 1950, Teitelbaum went to San Francisco, California to attend the California School of Fine Arts, and Mills College, where he studied with Max Beckmann. Teitelbaum lived in Montreal, then Toronto, where he worked as a set designer for CBC Television and served as art critic for the Toronto Telegram for over a decade (1954-1959). He then studied art in Europe (1959), and taught at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba (1960) before returning to Toronto, founding the New School of Art in 1962.
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John Anderson
Canadian, because I am...contemporary because I'm alive and an impressionist because you have a pretty good idea of what you might be looking at in my work... I paint because that's what I do. I paint. Within me are ways of seeing which are mine although they are built upon many traditions from generations of artists and their practices long before me. Painting is a way for me to express what I see. Charles Hawthorne, a noted New England painter of the 1920's wrote that we have a duty to find beauty in the ordinary. I look for elements of beauty within anything that light touches. My work evolved from an oil painter's perspective of brush on canvas. I use paint tonally applied with rich color and an impressionist character. The subject does not drive the composition for me but light does. Movement throughout my work is driven by the interplay of warm and cool color. Fluctuating emphasis of light and shadow along with the use of lost and found edges enhances that movement. John Anderson is an award- winning painter teaching, demonstrating and lecturing from his experiences. The Haliburton campus of Flemming College features John in its summer program teaching introductory and advanced plein air painting.
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Joan Miro
Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo]) (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his birth city in 1975. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.[
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Karl Hayes
The master maker of crystal, Karl Hayes, began his study of the craft as a boy, under the tutelage of his father, Tom Hayes. The elder Hayes was one of the world’s most renowned crystal engravers, working with Waterford beginning in 1958, where he produced engravings for the likes of Pope Paul II and Ronald Reagan. But he is best known for his “Children of Lir” series, based on the children’s story of four siblings who are changed into swans (those works typically sell for more than $40,000). Now, his son Karl continues—indeed, expands upon—that tradition of fashioning the world’s finest crystal. His wide variety of signed presentation pieces, sporting awards, limited editions, and, most notably, signature crystal globes are among the most coveted glass objects of our time.
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Dorothy Francis
Dorothy Francis has been fascinated by the life-style of Canada's indigenous people since her early childhood days spent near Duck Lake in northern Saskatchewan. Francis has exhibited in many major galleries in Canada and the US and has one work on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institute. Dorothy has had a number of images produced by UNICEF for their greeting card collection.
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Marc Barrie
Marc has made portraying the essence of nature the focus and centre of his life since the time he left school. Whether the subject is an eagle soaring effortlessly over the Rocky Mountains, or a loon gliding peacefully on a cold misty lake, Marc's talent and attention to detail make his paintings come alive with stirring realism, evoking in the viewer the sensation of 'actually being there'. His paintings are rich with colour, depth and realism.
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Wentworth Folkins
Canadian artist Wentworth D. Folkins is internationally recognized as one of the world's most accomplished painters of steam railroading subjects. His love of steam trains, and his unusual talent in depicting them, come from close association with railways beginning in childhood.
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Walter Lantz
Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899[1] – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
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Albert de Castro
From the simple life in Portuguese Angola to the dizzying heights of artistic renown across Canada and Europe… this is the life, the art and the passion of Alberto de Castro. Among his first memories in West Africa was the overwhelming desire to be an artist… and his father’s adamant rejection. In his teens, Alberto de Castro ran away from his family in Angola to Portugal, France, and Spain… and soon to Canada. “I used to dream of snow as a child in Angola,” he said. “I had only seen it in the movies but I longed to see its whiteness, its purity, for myself.”
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Gary McCallum
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