Andrea McCallum is an artist based in Guelph and Muskoka who explores the natural world through printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media. She has been collecting rocks and pieces of nature since childhood, and her prints often emerge from emptying her pockets at the end of a long walk. By appreciating small things within the larger landscape, Andrea explores the intersection of place, memory, and our connection to the earth. Printmaking is her passion because it requires you to be engaged in the process at each stage, allowing space for inspiration to flow. Her healing and artistic practices ...

Beth is a mixed media sculptor whose favored materials are ceramics, concrete, and metal. Preservation of the natural environment and the demonstration of critical social issues are her focus.Beth began her arts and cultural activities at a young age, largely influenced by her family. Throughout her 20s, Beth worked in black box theatre on set design, prop construction, stage management, and as a front-of-house. She is a mixed media and ceramics instructor, sharing her tools and ability with those who don’t normally have that access. She is also a trained objects conservator with a private ...

Coley is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto, whose path is driven by continual experimentation and making. Their practice is largely process-based and explores duality, space, and essence. Coley’s relationship to glass is shaped by their ongoing engagement with collage, drawing, and performance. Coley combines glass techniques with established personal methodologies and materials to create sculptures and installations grounded in play, movement, and experience.Drawn to its dynamic nature, Coley has undertaken a passionate quest to learn the dying art of neon bending. This evolving ...

My multi-media visual art practice integrates mixed media collage, textile art, and sculpture to create two- and three-dimensional works and installations. Using a multi-media toolkit allows me a more spontaneous expression of topics and themes. My art is informed by personal experience and the histories of my people in Jamaica, Africa, and Amiskwacîwâskahikan. My work is also informed by Black Feminism, Afrofuturism and Afro-Surrealism which are movements for the libration of all people from all forms of oppression. What I offer is the gift from my heart that aims to remind you of what you ...

FRANCIS MUSCAT bioFrancis Muscat moved from Toronto’s Parkdale to the ”Hills of Uxbridge” in the late 80’s, he has set up his studio in rural Brock Township and has lived here for 35 years.He studied Glass and Painting at the Ontario College of Art and Three Schools of Art in Toronto.Francis shows his sculptural works both in private galleries, public galleries, art fairs and at his home/studio in Sunderland.His passion for Glass is evident in the body of his work and usually combines it with other material to make objects both architectural and figurative. ...

In an ongoing practice-basedexploration into the circularity of a regenerative farm as a source of creativeinspiration and materials Jennifer Osborn makes pieces rooted in her day-to-dayexperiences of her seasonal agricultural life. Combining natural materialsfrom her farm such as wool, wood, and plant dyes, with traditional techniquessuch as painting, drawing, and printmaking, Jennifer creates unique piecesthat reflect the relationship between farmer, farm, and the landscape. AllSorts Acres Farm & Gallery is a place where art, agriculture and naturemeet.

Sculptor Mei Chan-Long turns to art-making as a vehicle for self-expression. Alternating between contemporary and figurative sculptures, Chan-Long's sculptures act as lines of communications, translating experiences and emotions that are often times difficult to verbally articulate.Her sculptures express undergoing emotional and spiritual changes. These apparent contradictions that present themselves in Chan-Long's sculptures point to the fluctuating emotions that ebb and flow within us.Her work has been shown at Sculptors Society of Canada, Burlington Waterfront Sculpture Trail, Visual Arts ...

I am an artist from St. Albert, Alberta, currently working inOttawa, Ontario. I am Metis-Japanese-Canadian, and I humbly and playfully interact with my culture, emotions, and interests through my artwork. I love exploring nature and its personification; you will see lots of nudity as an expression of my amusement and appreciation, alongside darker contemplations of mortality and time. My tenets of creation are meaning, emotion and personal satisfaction, simply put, I honor the art and the process. Growing up in St. Albert, I was consistently in art classes, which culminated in ...

Paulina Wiszowata’s (she/they) innate interest in the art world manifests itself in her artistic practice, in which she critically reflects upon and examines many different notions of art and what it means to be an artist. Framing herself as a contemporary conceptual artist, she utilizes a multitude of motifs including humour, language and de-skilling in order to demonstrate these self-reflective concepts and her hyperawareness of them. Her identity as an artist is rooted in her training in the visual arts, with a primary focus on painting, performance, and more recently, experimenting with ...