Gallery Artists

Kristine Andrea watercolour Kristine Andrea is a versatile contemporary fine artist who creates pieces with acrylics oils and watercolour She creates her paintings with a combination of realist and impressionist painterly styles Before Kristine paints she slips into a meditative state During this process her mind dives into a fantasy world creating and drawing ideas Although a meditation practice

Michelle Austen oil on canvas Michelle Austen is a full time Calgary artist Born in Toronto Ontario Michelle has called Calgary home since 1979 Her focus is on creating artwork that reflects her inner self an untiring passion to produce colorful and exciting expressions in oil watercolor and acrylic that play on our emotions Michelle is a fervent plein air painter with a focus on Western Canadian

John Barkley oil on canvas As a young boy growing up in the Ottawa valley I drew and painted the forest my siblings and the animals on our small hobby farm My father an artists as well took me on sketching and painting trips with him and his artist friends During my youth I completed a B A honours a B F A and then a Masters degree I was born in Ottawa in 1964 and lived just outside of Perth as a b

David Blackwood R C A etching A P Blackwood David Lloyd printmaker painter b at Wesleyville Nfld 7 Nov 1941 Although Blackwood lives in Port Hope Ontario his attachment in his subject matter is to his Newfoundland past and particularly to Wesleyville on Bonavista Bay Around this setting he has created an almost epic story celebrating the community s 63 skippers and 12 captains Blackwood sees himse

Bratsa Bonifacho acrylic on canvas Bratsa Bonifacho is a senior artist based in Vancouver Canada His work is held in many private corporate and permanent museum collections across five continents Major collections held include the Canadian Embassy in Argentina Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade Serbia the National Museum of Serbia and the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa Internationally r

David Brunning mixed media on paper David Brunning also widely known as TheKidBelo is a contemporary artist from Calgary Alberta Canada working in a wide variety of mediums since the late 1990 s A former graffiti artist David has expanded into the fine art realm with his abstract work An avid traveler and brand enthusiast who is motivational through his art speaking and overall presence David seek

Bobbie Burgers acrylic on canvas Bobbie Burgers was born in 1973 in Vancouver B C and received a B A in Art History in 1996 from the University of Victoria In 1997 she attended summer sessions at The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Burgers is known for her luscious bouquets blow up botanicals and pastoral landscapes which focus on sumptuous colour and wild movement Believing that the traged

Dr Joane Cardinal Schubert LL D Hon R C A mixed media A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts since 1986 Joane Cardinal Schubert was also a writer curator lecturer poet and activist for First Nations artists and individuals engaged in the struggle for Native sovereignty Joane Cardinal Schubert was born in 1942 in Red Deer and attended the Alberta College of Art 1962 64 1966 67 studying pain

Claudette Castonguay acrylic on canvas There is little question that Claudette Castonguay s work captivates us with amazing colour and vibrancy Born in to a family of six children Castonguay flourished as a young artist first taking a liking to drawing and then later to painting Although she feels that this did not distinguish her from the other children she was unique in that she took a strong li

Horace Champagne pastel Horace Champagne lives and works from his two studios one nestled in the woods of Ile d Orleans in Quebec the other on the rocks of Rose Blanche in Newfoundland He made his first trip to Western Canada in 1980 with 20 pastels tucked under his arm and the goal to find a gallery that would buy his work His first stop was in Calgary His plan was to sell 10 works in Calgary ren

Victor Cicansky R C A ceramic Victor Cicansky Czekanski was born and raised in Regina Saskatchewan in western Canada He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan B Ed 1964 the University of Regina B A 1965 and the University of California at Davis M F A 1970 He also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Art at Deere Isle Maine In 2007 Victor received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from

Galen Davison mixed media on board

Cameron Douglas bronze ed 2 of 3 lt span class quot bio quot gt Cameron Douglas was born in Perth Scotland in 1957 and came to Canada with his family in1960 His father a painter and art teacher settled in Nelson British Columbia where Cameron now lives with his wife Lorraine and two young daughters Cameron studied Fine Art at Red Deer College in Alberta and Sculpture at the David Thompson Universi

Amy Dryer oil on canvas lt i gt My gestural style characteristic of German Expressionism emphasizes the subjective expression of inner experiences The truest picture of a moment the figure of a place occurs in a balanced abstraction of everyday perspectives To convey this I combine line form and colour to represent and yet slightly distort my subject matter This creates a field of view that is bot

Joe Fafard R C A bronze sculpture ed 2 of 5 Joseph Fafard sculptor b at Ste Marthe Rocanville Sask 2 Sept 1942 Joe Fafard attended the University of Manitoba BFA 1966 and Pennsylvania State University MFA 1968 He began his career making kinetic sculpture but soon after his appointment at the University of Saskatchewan in 1968 he turned to satirical plaster portraits of his colleagues and people in

Chris Flodberg oil on canvas Chris Flodberg was born and raised in Calgary Alberta After completing his BFA at the Alberta College of Art and Design he went on to pursue an MFA in painting at the University of Alberta Chris taught painting and drawing at the U of A both during and after his degree and was later hired on at ACAD where he was a drawing and painting instructor Chris now lives paints

Dulcie Foo Fat oil on canvas lt b gt Artist s Statement lt b gt I make art because the process engages me Working from postcard size photographs mostly of landscapes but occasionally of figures or interiors I am attracted to an image by the way in which light reveals form through the modulation of colour and to the complex rhythms which structure the microscopic landscape of the forest floor Motiv

T M Glass archival pigment print T M Glass is a digital artist based in Toronto whose practice explores the historical technological and aesthetic conditions of photography to stretch it beyond its traditional definition The works have been showcased in multiple solo exhibitions and held in private collections in Canada the United States Britain France and Australia Glass turned to photography as

Cecilia Gossen Bronze 2 10 lt i gt Like Matisse I want my art to be like a good armchair in which to rest at the end of the day I view art as a medium of expression a communication between maker and viewer My goal is to create works that invite contemplation through the deliberate organization of lines shapes values textures and colours My sculptures include the formal austerities of Constructivis

Lois Green bronze Lois Green was born in Three Hills Alberta in 1951 The youngest of six girls she moved to Calgary several months after where she continued to live with her own family Having held a fascination for the arts for as long as she could remember she began her studies in Jewelry Design while her children were at school After several years at The Alberta College of Art and Design ACAD sh

Maggie Hall acrylic on canvas I like all the things everywhere all the time I m a maximalist I like gold leopard print neon Baroque and rococo I love kitsch I have an affinity for women wielding weapons and I will be in love with electrostatic flocking once I figure that out amp nbsp

Dr Diane Howard Langlois Mixed Media on Canvas A former university professor artist Diane Howard Langlois now devotes herself to painting the remote regions of the world the Arctic and Antarctic the peaks of the Canadian Rockies and the remote regions of the Namibia and Sonoran deserts By focusing on the landscapes and animals of these largely uninhabited areas Howard Langlois conveys the experien

Marlo Johnson acrylic on board lt p gt Marlo Johnson is a published author and artist based on Pender Island Her work is an expression of meditative and compassionate states of being and is intended to provide opportunities of solace stillness and conscious remembrance through a relaxation of the body mind and senses lt br gt She creates for the purpose of evoking one s deepest truth and most esse

Don Kottmann Acrylic on Canvas Don Kottmann received his MFA from the University of Washington Seattle He has exhibited widely in the US nationally and internationally as a representative of Canada Kottmann is a 2014 nominee for the Joan Mitchell Painting Grant He has taught at several US institutions and currently holds a teaching position at the Alberta College of Art and Design

Claude Langevin oil on canvas Claude Langevin is a self taught artist who paints landscapes in the Canadian tradition Like the well known Group of Seven artists he begins with the unique reality of Canadian landscape and presents his own highly personal interpretation using bold colours imaginative composition and interesting explorations of perspective Early in his career Langevin worked with acr

Danielle Lanteigne acrylic on canvas Danielle Lanteigne s work reflects her strengths in terms of division of space rendering masses of colour and seeking out textures It invites the viewer to look at daily life with a slight smile playing with the perspective of everyday objects confronting them in an apparently irrational order but animating them by the same life force Lanteigne sees herself as

Pierre Lefebvre oil on canvas Pierre Lefebvre is a self taught painter What particularly characterizes his works is his constant evolution toward quality He is a painter in progress and the progress can immediately be seen in his paintings To see a painting by Lefebvre of ten years ago and to observe one in today s exhibition is to realize that Lefebvre has reached in only ten years an artistic ma

John Lennard oil on canvas In 2011 John Lennard was one of 29 artists selected by the Art Dealers Association of Canada to be shown at lt i gt The Armory Show lt i gt in New York City His first solo public gallery show was held in 2006 at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie and was entitled lt i gt The Artist as Traveler lt i gt His work is shown in major galleries across Canada and is collected in

Geoff MacKay mixed media on board Geoff MacKay was born and raised in Calgary AB In 2004 he received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting from the Alberta College of Art and Design After graduating Geoff spent time in Montreal and Mexico further developing his body of work After his return he exhibited his work in numerous venues and succeeded in becoming a professional artist Currently he divid

RFM McInnis oil on board RFM McInnis is a prolific artist whose work can be found in prestigious galleries in major cities as well as in private and corporate collections He has painted portraits of famous Canadians such as Margaret Atwood Peter Pocklington Maureen McTeer and Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin among others Yet after his more than 40 years of making a living as a respected and success

Andrew James McKay acrylic ink and graphite on panel lt blockquote class quot quot gt lt div class quot quot gt lt div class quot quot dir quot ltr quot gt lt div class quot quot gt Andrew James McKay is a painter and print maker currently working from Kitchener Waterloo Ontario and Vancouver BC A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art Design he was over the course of his studies there the recip

Gary McMillan oil on board Having grown up in Calgary Gary McMillan attended the University of Calgary in 1978 to 1980 studying science and fine art He exhibited paintings of Alberta landscape throughout the 1980 s and then attended Alberta College of Art and Design from 1989 to 1991 Holding a double major in painting and printmaking he received a Diploma with Distinction in 1991 Employing the use

Janet Mitchell watercolour Born in Medicine Hat Alberta Mitchell studied at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art Calgary at the Banff School of Fine Art 1942 at the Hampstead Art Centre London England but was mainly self taught Working in oil acrylic pen and ink and watercolour her naive colourful paintings depict the Alberta landscape and city scenes often combined with floating figures

Daphne Odjig serigraph ed 69 of 125

Pauline Paquin acrylic on canvas The rosy cheeked children playing throughout Pauline Paquin s work have become well known to Canadian collectors Using bold colours and rapid brushstrokes Paquin creates delightful small panels that concentrate on the movements and activities of the children Their faces are intentionally left indistinct encouraging the viewer to remember his or her own childhood Pa

Randolph Parker Acrylic on Canvas Randolph Parker has lived studied and travelled across Canada drawing inspiration from images he has seen across the land He is well known for his panoramic landscape vistas of various regions of Canada His paintings are rich with colour and texture Their vast sense of space coupled with lush foreground detail pull the viewer right into the scene Parker has descri

Neil Patterson O P A M oil on board I was born in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan and it was a reproduction of a Tom Thomson painting in my elementary classroom that first got me to dream about painting Unfortunately there weren t any art galleries in Moose Jaw and I had little exposure to original art until I visited my aunt in Ottawa when I was twelve She took me to the National Gallery and that s when I

Daniel Plante acrylic on canvas Daniel Plante was born in Montreal and now lives in the Laurentians with his wife his two daughters and his son who act as his models The Late Dr Stern of the Dominion Gallery was the first person to realize the extent of Plante s talent Plante has since exhibited several times and his works are sought by collectors who like his personal approach colours and texture

Jane Ash Poitras mixed media on board Jane Ash Poitras painter printmaker writer b at Fort Chipeywan Alta 1951 She received a BSc from the University of Alberta in 1977 attended a program in printmaking and drawing at Yale University in 1982 and received her BFA in Printmaking from U of A s Department of Art and Design in 1983 She graduated with an MFA in Printmaking from Columbia University Schoo

Laura Pope photograph ed 6 of 10 Through photography and painting my work investigates the urban environment and the complex interactions therein This setting is the place where the sociological economic and interactive images of our contemporary culture are on continual and ever changing display Urban interaction is compounded by the architectural structure of the city in which reflective and ref

Claude A Simard R C A watercolour on paper Claude A Simard was born and spent his youth in Quebec City After graduating from the Ontario College of Art 1962 1966 he returned to Quebec City where he was employed at Simons stores as Head of Image and Store Design 1966 1973 Later Simard was president of his own communication design firm for eleven years From 1984 to 2001 he was a professor at Laval U

Lee Stroncek oil on canvas

David Thauberger R C A acrylic on canvas The first thing that catches your eye in a gallery exhibiting the work of David Thauberger is the sheer colour of it The second thing is its clearness and precision A closer look is like zooming in to see places usually shown from farther away within the context of the prairie horizon Thauberger gives us a new perspective of architectural subjects in small

Les Thomas encaustic

Keith Thomson oil on canvas Keith Thomson grew up in a farming community in the Qu Appelle valley near Craven Saskatchewan After high school he followed his artistic interests by attending and graduating from the four year Commercial Art course at The Alberta Institute of Technology and Art In later years it was renamed The Alberta College of Art and Design After working in the commercial art fiel

Terry Tomalty oil on board Terry is a Montrealer and like so many of Irish descent He was born on April 28 1935 and is completely self taught He characterizes himself as a painter of events You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of contemporary Canadian painters whose shows have enjoyed national TV coverage Terry is one of those few At one of his shows in Montreal cameras caught peo

Bev Tosh oil on paper lt div gt Beverly Tosh has continually used figures to express her thoughts and emotions When I am drawing figures the imagery is moving from the inside out The figure is everything to me I relate so strongly to the way I feel as a person There is a quiet space where thought develops an internal space a vessel supportive positive and embracing lt div gt lt div gt lt div gt lt

Darrell Underschultz acrylic on canvas Darrell Underschultz was born in Edmonton Alberta in 1965 After receiving a diploma in Fine Arts from Grant MacEwan Community College in 1986 he moved to Vancouver to continue his education at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design After graduating from the ECCAD Graphic Design department in 1992 Darrell worked as an illustrator for several years before dec

Andrew Valko R C A silkscreen APIII Andrew Valko was born 1957 in Prague Czechoslovakia He came to Canada in 1968 and received a diploma in Graphic Design and Applied Arts from Red River Community College in 1977 In 1983 and 1985 he studied printmaking with Toshi Yoshida at Yoshida Hanga Academy Tokyo Japan Valko currently works out of Winnipeg Manitoba and Vancouver British Columbia

David James Veres acrylic and cast acrylic gel on board lt p class quot style1 quot gt David received his education from the University of Calgary completing a BFA in 1985 After University he began experimenting with acrylic paint discovering it s unique flexibility and properties This was a beginning point to his involvement with abstract art and his desire to learn everything about that genre of

James Wyper acrylic on linen Canadian artist James Wyper was born in British Colombia in 1971 and raised in Saskatoon Saskatchewan home of modernist painter William Perehudoff whose work was particularly inspiring and the excellent Mendel Art Gallery which was an influential childhood sanctuary His bright geometric paintings explore the idea that state of being consciousness is causal They illustr

Tommy Zen mixed media on canvas