Places affect me. When I find a landscape that moves me, I take photos which become the starting point for my work in the studio. I paint in a very intuitive way, building up paint on canvas in thin washes then eventually thicker impastos. Experimenting with mediums and glazes and colour upon colour, I add […]
About Verna Vowles
Verna Vowles has painted since the 1950’s, beginning with oils and later working with watercolours. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in painting from Montreal’s Concordia University in 1978. For many years, Verna experimented with varying degrees of abstraction in an effort to free herself from representing the natural world. A […]
About Gerry Wright
Gerry Wright was born in Montreal in 1946 and received his formal art education at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia). He lived in Prince Edward Island for twenty years before moving to Kingston in 1999. Gerry paints landscapes exclusively in oils and his work is frequently completed ‘alla prima’ (in a single sitting). Often […]
About Maureen Sheridan
Maureen paints canvases that capture ‘slice of life’ moments that allow the viewer an intimate view of the scene. She is a perceptual realist whose subject matter ranges from regional scenes–people rowing, hiking or playing–to scenes of places she has visited around the world. Much of the effectiveness of her painting owes to her sensitivity […]
About Evelyn Rapin
Evelyn Rapin lives in Kingston, Ontario. She has a four year fine art degree from Queen’s University and has been a professional artist for twenty years. Most of her current work displays a certain rawness of composition. The work reveals some of the basic mark making of the artistic process to enhance the expressive nature […]
About Peggy Morley
Peggy Morley’s prime motivation in her work is colour. Her aesthetic involves the transformation of everyday objects through her unique perception. Working from life, the process of applying paint or wax undertakes an energy directed by the medium melded with artistic decisions on levels of both the conscious and subconscious. This process is both visual […]
About Michael Minthorn
In my painting the primary objective is simply to convey to the viewer the beauty of our environment and to evoke the emotional responses we all, as humans, have when we see the play of light and shadow across trees, lakes and fields. As far as technique, I am concerned with style as opposed to […]
About Harold Kaufmann
Harold was always interested in art from an early age. While he was at McGill University he took several art courses which he has found very helpful to this day. It was not until the late 70’s that he began to study art more seriously. For seven years he spent most of his weekends painting […]
About Jordan Hicks
Jordan Hicks, a self-taught artist, was born in Kingston, Ontario Canada. He received a Graphic Design Diploma in 1992 and soon after began exhibiting his works. He has worked in a variety of media and his portfolio is a mixture of styles ranging from realism to impressionism to conceptual work and contemporary abstracts. “I believe […]
About Mark Graham
Mark Graham was raised in a close-knit family of eight children on a farm in St. Mary’s, Ontario. After his student days at Queens University, Mark began painting and discovered what would become a life-long passion. Over the years Mark has evolved from his beginnings as a gifted and self-taught artist to become a full-time, […]
