Small lives and easily overlooked moments lie at the heart of Victoria’s multidisciplinary practice. Working across painting, drawing, mixed media and installation, she draws on everyday experience, memory and the natural world. Her recent paintings focus on birds, plants and other vulnerable forms of life, setting intimate observations against the wider pressures of environmental loss.

Her practice is also shaped by an international life and a longstanding engagement with experimental art. After studying at the Ontario College of Art and the universities of Guelph, Queen’s and Portsmouth, she spent more than a decade in New York, where she became active in the Lower East Side art scene and the Rivington School. Now based in the Ottawa Valley, Victoria continues to exhibit internationally and received a 2017 Acker Award for her contribution to the avant-garde arts community.

Hamdullah Arbab is a self-taught, Ottawa-based artist specialising in expressive portraiture and en plein air painting. With more than two decades of artistic practice, Hamdullah has exhibited internationally, and now, for the first time, in a Canadian gallery, at PMAC. He is also engaged in community-focussed art initiatives.

Lynne, a Montreal-born artist, now living in southeastern Ontario, works primarily with acrylics and collage because they best suit her temperament and her stylistic approach to artistic expression.

Words, calligraphy and stone converge in Ellie’s work. Using traditional mallet-and-chisel techniques, she carves letterforms into slate, marble and limestone, allowing language to become both inscription and sculptural form. Alongside commissioned lettering, Ellie creates figurative stone sculptures and low reliefs that seek a sense of intimacy and romanticism.

She began carving in 2011 while living in Cambridge, England. There she studied sculpture with Esther Melamed and learned the time-honoured practice of letter carving from Eric Marland and Tom Perkins through the Lettering Arts Trust.

Now based in Ottawa, Ellie continues to unite the precision of lettering, the physical resistance of stone and the enduring pull of words shaped by hand.

Colour, texture and movement become an open language in Silvia’s work. Guided by intuition rather than a fixed formula, she builds each painting through experimentation — layering acrylics, creating physical relief and introducing organic matter, metallic residue and other materials.

Born in a small town in Mexico, Silvia first discovered the expressive possibilities of her hands while modelling figures in clay. She later studied classical oil painting before finding greater freedom in acrylics and a largely self-directed practice. Since immigrating to Canada in 2011, painting has become the connecting thread between two countries and the experiences that have shaped her.

Her abstract and figurative compositions invite viewers to follow lines, forms and unexpected relationships of colour — and to find their own meaning within them.

From a science and design background, Hélène discovered her artistic talents playing with her children’s gouache. Now, she thrives with her paintbrush and stained glass.

Making a beeline through almost every art-form while growing up, Chloé ended up at Espace Verre, the glass art school in Montreal. Since then, she has split her time between teaching glass arts in Quebec and Ontario, and making art happen. She is the spark that ignites the Missoui Studio flame.

Diane spent nine years in Western Canada before returning to Eastern Ontario where she was born and raised. Creativity, and art in many forms, permeated Diane’s life from an early age, informing her outlook on life — her views often setting her apart from her contemporaries.

The performing arts were central to Diane’s artistic education. Her contributions are recognised in the Toronto Royal Conservatory. 

After raising three children, Diane’s focus shifted to the visual arts. Informed by her early performing arts education career, she is obsessed with capturing her visions of movement on canvas. In Diane’s own words: “Music is my life, painting my passion and art my calling”.

Richard, an Electro-Mechanical Drafting Technician graduate from Algonquin College discovered marquetry later in life.

He fell in love with this exacting craft, drawing on his drafting skills and woodworking experience to earn a certificate in marquetry in 2002 at the Rose Wood Studio in Almont, Ontario. Marquetry has been Richard’s passion ever since.

Richard captures the essence of historical sites and the natural world in wood veneer. In addition to creating meticulously crafted works, that has been exhibited far and wide, Richard teaches his craft at his home studio and will be teaching at PMAC.

Landscape and portraiture form the heart of Carly’s work. Classically trained, she works in oils, pastels and pencil, using careful observation to capture shifts of light, colour and texture. Her subjects range from open landscapes and remembered places to commissioned portraits and intimate still lifes built around personal objects.

American-born, Carly completed bachelor’s and master’s degrees in commercial art at Pensacola Christian College before moving to Canada and settling in Embrun. There she established Hidden Daisy Fine Art Studio, where she paints and teaches the foundations of drawing and painting. The studio’s name reflects a personal signature: a small daisy concealed within each finished painting.

Eric is known for bold colour, expressive form, and an adventurous approach to technique. Working from Vankleek Hill, he embraces the intense physicality and delicate precision required to create in glass. Eric considers glass art a mirror of life’s constant change. Pushing the boundaries through experimental processes and unexpected colour reactions underpins Eric's narrative-driven design. His Drip and Comet series highlight his fascination with contrast, movement, and organized chaos. Dedicated to continual practice and craftsmanship, Eric is currently developing new casting work exploring fragility and transformation, while preparing to open his own Main Street studio.

A computer engineer by training, Jasmine exchanged ones and zeros for brushes and paint to become a self-taught artist and the creator of Feeling Nifty. What began with a painting made as a housewarming gift for her future husband grew into an enduring source of joy, freedom and self-expression.

Working primarily in acrylics, Jasmine explores abstraction, portraiture and mixed media. Her vibrant paintings are often filled with intricate patterns, delicate strokes and swirling lines — small details she likens to puzzle pieces within the greater complexity of life.

Through workshops and her widely followed tutorials, Jasmine encourages beginners to embrace imperfection, enjoy the creative process and discover the artist within themselves.

This established artist from Rockland, Ontario has a rich history of artistic expression dating back to the 1990s. Since retirement from the Federal Public Service, Doreen immersed herself fully into her art and actively contributing to her community's arts scene.

Doreen, became an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists in 2024; a testament to the quality and merit of her work. She is also represented by the French Circle Foundation for the Arts on-line gallery.

This Toronto-born creator who now calls Alexandria home. With professional goldsmithing training from George Brown College, she brings a wealth of expertise to her craft. Laura playfully explores traditional metalsmithing techniques, enamelling, and seed beading to create unique and eye-catching pieces. Her work reflects a passion for both classic methods and innovative design.

A graduate of Concordia University’s Fine Arts programme, Alan studied photography and painting under artists Guido Molinari and Tom Hopkins, whose influence continues to inform his work.

Working in oils, Alan draws upon expressionism and surrealism to place familiar still-life objects within richly textured, often unsettling spaces. Through colour, juxtaposition and symbolic imagery, he seeks to evoke an emotional response while inviting viewers to navigate each painting as an open-ended journey.

Alan has exhibited in and around Montreal, with work held in private collections and on permanent display at the Cedars Cancer Centre.

Deeply inspired by the botanicals from her garden and the landscapes around Quebec and Eastern Ontario, Marla is drawn to subjects that reveal strong patterns of light and shade. She finds these amongst the delicate petals of flowers in her garden and the quiet villages that embody the tranquil lifestyle of rural Quebec.

Marla's work in watercolour and oils is guided by a love for strong design elements and vivid colour. Her work invites the viewer to experience the peacefulness and intricate patterns found in nature and everyday life.

This master flame work artist specialises in coaxing life into molten glass, creating intricate flower implosion pendants.

Alberto spent a lifetime studying the chemical and physical properties of glass and how metallic oxides can be used colour it. Over many years behind the flame, he has developed techniques that focus on creating minuscule and complex floral creations encased in soft clear glass.

This former electrical engineer by trade has taught advanced implosion techniques at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Merle’s oil and mixed media explorations of landscape, seascape and sky renders nature’s magnificent energies as tranquil, mystical abstractions of the real world.  

Drawn by the Canadian wilderness, Merle lives a spiritual shamanic lifestyle in rural Quebec where she creates.

Portraiture and landscape anchor Olga’s work. Working primarily in oils, she is drawn both to the character of individual sitters and to the atmosphere of the natural world. Her paintings favour close observation, vivid colour and carefully resolved form.

Born in Lachine, Quebec, and now based in South Lancaster, Olga developed her eye through pencil portraiture before completing a three-year commercial art program at the Académie des Arts in Montreal. She later expanded into oils, producing commissioned portraits and landscapes that reflect her sustained interest in people and place.

Recently, Olga has begun exploring her Ukrainian heritage as a source of inspiration.

Working from her Three Owls Studio in Vankleek Hill, Susan is well known in her community as a dedicated artist concerned about what's on the horizon for humanity and the planet. Her work reflects her concerns: How we treat each other and how we connect to Mother Earth and her creatures.

Susan’s acrylic works in bright audacious colours — deceptively simple at first glance — summon emotions as she delivers visual commentary on contemporary issues and relationships.

This celebrated artist has exhibited in five countries and has major works in private collections. She’s currently experimenting with repurposing everyday objects like chairs, toys and piano keys as her canvas.

With a background in art, Rain found her passion in jewelry making & design. Mostly self taught, she learned her craft through workshops, books, the internet and lots of trial and experimentation. A thirst for learning keeps her works fresh and always evolving.

Captivated by a sculpture of a dancer during the Art au Vignoble exhibition in 2016, and meeting the sculptor during a studio tour in
Saint-Lazare a few months later, was all it took to start Chantal’s creative journey of sculpting with recycled materials.

Although Chantal had always enjoyed discovering sculptures during her urban explorations, in museums or parks, she had never imagined creating some herself.

Despite having explored various artistic mediums, sculpting with reclaimed materials quickly became her true creative voice as it resonated with her deep commitment to repurposing materials.

Chantal earned her Paverpol certification in 2022 and continues to develop her practice through specialized training, exchanges with artists from a variety of disciplines, and the challenges of creating sculptures.

Relatively new to oil painting, Marian has taken to art after retirement as a medical scientist. The rigours of reading for a doctorate in the medical sciences have prepared her well to learn from and study the masters.

Bold colour, movement and experimentation animate Laura’s paintings. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, she brings abstraction into conversation with realism and illustration, allowing dripped paint, emerging forms and imagined landscapes to develop intuitively across the canvas.

Born in Alberta and raised in Avonmore, this Cornwall-based Indigenous artist has been making art since childhood. Her studies at Sheridan College, the Ottawa School of Art and Bishop’s University broadened a practice she values for its freedom from prescribed processes. Rooted in emotion, her work uses colour and landscape to explore isolation, comfort, healing and our need for connection.

Laura also enjoys the immediacy of live painting—although her enthusiasm comes with one occupational hazard: friends may leave a hug wearing a little paint.

Inspired by basketry, pottery, beadwork and woven textiles, Roger translates two-dimensional geometric patterns onto three-dimensional turned wooden forms. Through pyrography and intricate surface design, he transforms vessels and plates into objects that appear woven rather than turned.

Working primarily with hard maple, Roger forms thousands of tiny cells across each surface using concentric beads and individually burned lines, then colours them by hand with pigmented India ink. A single work may contain between 7,000 and 17,000 individually coloured cells — an exacting process in which precision of craft gives rise to a remarkably convincing basket-weave illusion.

Largely self-taught and working from Ingleside, Roger has earned recognition within Canada’s woodturning and ecorative-arts communities. His work is held in collections internationally and has been acquired by the Government of Canada for presentation and display.

Lesley is a contemporary artist — a painter for many years — whose canine art, portraits and landscapes are in private collections all over North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. She is currently focussed on continuing to develop her Highland Spirit Art Collection.

Chris has been shaping wood since the early 1980s, blending the precision of cabinetmaking with the artistry of woodturning. His bowls have graced galleries in Montreal, Toronto, and Chicago, and he has showcased his work at high-end craft shows, including One of a Kind in Toronto and Chicago. Deeply inspired by the forms of trees, the rhythm of music, and the lines of architecture and furniture, Chris creates bowls, custom turned pieces, and recently, thoughtfully designed tables, chairs, and desks.

Robin considers everything a subject for her art. She says “I take it all in, synthesize the experience, and then release it, choosing medium and substrate according to subject, mood, and desired result.” 

Having been involved with art her entire life, this artist is also a graphic designer, writer, art teacher and creativity guide. Robin works in multiple mediums, including acrylic, watercolour, graphite, charcoal, papier mâché, gouache and more.

Cloth and thread become acts of remembrance, resistance and connection in Jody’s hands. Working with textiles and mixed media, she draws upon heritage domestic craft — particularly practices historically dismissed as 'women’s work' — to tell women-centred stories and question what society chooses to value or discard.

Reclaimed materials, raw edges, layered colour and patient hand-stitching give her work its expressive character. Its deliberate slowness pushes back against disposable culture, allowing overlooked materials, labour and histories to be seen anew.

Creating in community is central to Jody’s practice. As founder of the Espanola Fibre Arts Festival, she fostered collaborative projects that brought people together through making. Her participatory installations include the room-sized Boro Bower and The Hanky Project, which commemorates the 768 filles du roi one hand-stitched name at a time.

Working from Alexandria, Michael is an emerging painter drawn to abstraction. His acrylic works explore colour and texture, allowing layered surfaces and expressive marks to shape each composition.

Guided by experimentation rather than literal representation, Michael continues to develop a visual language of his own.

Julie’s creative journey started at a young age with music. Creating visual art came later, her work flourishing as she found a mentor who helped her dive deeper into the elements and principles of art than classes and workshops allowed for. Her work is influenced by impressionist landscapes with value as the lure to draw in the viewer. Julie has participated in juried exhibitions in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa. Chelsea, QC hosted Julie’s first solo exhibit in 2024.

Julie is a signature member of Pastel Artists of Canada, a juried Exhibiting Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA) and a juried member of the FCA’s Toronto Chapter.

Bold colour and a strong foundation in drawing underpin Carole’s paintings. Informed by her studies in graphic arts, she adapts her composition and handling to suit each subject, seeking an image that feels at once rich, dramatic and emotionally direct. Richly worked texture is a recurring signature, lending her surfaces depth and tactile presence.

Her work moves freely among landscapes, figures, animals and familiar objects, united less by subject than by confident colour and a distinctly graphic sense of form. A longstanding member of Eastern Ontario’s arts community, Carole has exhibited regularly throughout Prescott-Russell and the Ottawa region.

Texture, light and atmosphere give Jennifer’s paintings their distinctive presence. Working in oils, acrylics and watercolour, she brings disciplined observation to subjects ranging from Ottawa’s industrial past and solitary buildings to portraiture and the wildlife of the Canadian North.

Drawn to what she calls “quiet strength,” Jennifer seeks to capture more than outward appearance: the dignity of an isolated figure, the history held by a weathered structure or the resilience of an animal within a vast landscape. Traditional glazing, layered texture and controlled palettes bring depth and luminosity to her work, while increasingly visible brushwork and broken colour lend it immediacy and movement.

A journey to the Arctic Circle in 2025 deepened her interest in wilderness, endurance and the quiet drama of overlooked moments.

Born and raised in rural Quebec, Albert developed an enduring passion for wildlife and nature. Albert currently lives, surrounded by nature, pursuing his passion for nature photography, especially of local birds — as evidenced by his work on display in the gallery — and small animals.

Photography and the domestic arts come together in Jessica’s work, shaped by place, home and memory. She began sewing at six, influenced by the women in her family, and took up photography soon afterwards. While studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design, she began combining the two.

Jessica alters her photographs with hand-sewn thread and beads, transforming views of night skies, passing landscapes and familiar rural places. In her Starscapes, constellations charted for a particular place and moment are traced in gold thread and tiny glass beads — preserving both personal and collective histories.

Her artistic path has taken her from studies at OCAD and the University of Windsor to Seoul, South Korea, and home again to Vankleek Hill, where she served as director and curator of Arbor Gallery for eight years.

Brenda has worked with clay for more than 35 years, dividing her practice between Montréal and Alexandria. Although her artistic education began in drawing, printmaking and painting, she found enduring possibilities in clay.

Working in stoneware and porcelain, Brenda elegantly combines wheel-thrown and hand-built forms. She specializes in wood firing, raku and smoke firing, allowing heat, flame and smoke to become active participants in making each piece unique.

A longtime pottery educator, Brenda sees teaching as a way to give back and inspire the next generation of ceramic artists.

Debbie's first painting were only ever used "decorate my home". When she gifted a well received painting of a bouquet of roses to her parents to mark their golden wedding anniversary, it reignited a spark lost many years prior.

Debbie is exploring different approaches as she is still discovering her personal style. "Sequestered in my little room, I get huge satisfaction hiding from a world full of noise and activity.  I'm quite content immersing myself in different worlds of colour and form."

Sawsan’s evocative works blend rich cultural influences with contemporary techniques in an expressive style. Drawing inspiration from her Middle Eastern heritage and lived Canadian experience, Sawsan's work explores identity, connection, and nature through vibrant colors and dynamic compositions. Her work has been showcased in various galleries and art events across Canada, earning recognition for its emotional depth and unique narrative style. Sawsan's passion for storytelling through visual art invites viewers into a world where tradition and modernity coexist, creating a powerful and immersive experience.

Attracted to all manner of creative pursuits as a child, Lyne’s mother enrolled her in an oil painting class when she just old enough to handle the medium responsibly. She has since changed over to painting a broad range of subject in acrylic.

Although critical of her own work; she hopes to bring joy to people through her paintings.

Eliska is a multidisciplinary artist based on PMAC's doorstep in Alexandria. Her international career of more than three decades spans glass, painting, bronze and site-responsive installation, shaped by experiences in Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico and Siberia.

Eliska approaches materials as collaborators, allowing heat, gravity, breath and resistance to help guide each work. Across mediums, she explores the relationship between memory, lived experience and the natural world. Water, fire and altered landscapes recur throughout her practice as she considers environmental pressure, transformation and the tension between fragility and endurance.

Her first Canadian solo exhibition, My Quiet Furor, at the Cline House Gallery brought together paintings and sculpture tracing themes that have occupied her since childhood.

With strong roots in Murano, Italy, Franco does a long lineage of glass blowers proud. His grandfather, father and several uncles were amongst the glass blowers who came to Canada after the Great War and were part of the Chalet and Rossi Art Glass studios in Cornwall and others in Montréal.

Franco's figurines, using only Murano glass and his soft glass stemware are testament to his mastery of the medium, showcasing the benefit of legacy learning.