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.

Crystal, an international award-winning contemporary realist painter lives in Eastern Ontario. A self-taught realist, she spent her rural childhood observing and drawing the natural world around her. Crystal shifts easily between mediums — watercolour, gouache and oil — focusing on realism juxtaposed with expressive, gestural brushstrokes. Her paintings weave together whimsical allegory while touching on the very real shifts in environment and the precarious disappearing and ever-changing agricultural landscape.

Crystal teaches at PMAC.

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”.

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.

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.

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 at the Corning Museum of Glass.

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.

Raised up north with the spirit of a country girl, Stephanie’s home studio in Eastern Ontario is surrounded by nature. She explored nearly every artistic medium before discovering her voice in the creation of mandalas. 

Mandalas —  intricate circular patterns found across many cultures — became the first art-form she truly connected with. The discovery came during a period of turmoil and anxiety in the pursuit of a calming practice.

For this artist, mandalas are meditation through creation; the act of painting becomes as soothing as the final piece. For the viewer, mandalas offer a chance to pause, breathe, and become absorbed in rhythm and symmetry.

Helen’s love of abstraction drives her to explore relationships between shape, colour and line with her latest work focused primarily on colour and its infinite expressive potential. Her twenty-year-long art career is defined by continuous experimentation; investigating the materiality and expressive qualities of media and substrates.

An artist since childhood, Brenda returned to her creative roots after raising two children, exploring acrylic, watercolour, and pastel painting with renewed curiosity and joy. Brenda does not confine herself to a single medium and considers the creative act more important than the finished product. Brenda also has watercolour works on show.

The Fall25 Exhibit is Brenda’s first formal showing in a gallery.

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.

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.

Proud of her Huron, Algonquin and Mi’kmaq origins, this Metis artist from Lefaivre, in Eastern Ontario is inspired by Canada’s natural beauty, capturing the spirit of the animals and landscapes of the far North, specifically Coral Harbor in Nunavut and the reserves north of Kenora.

Hélène loves discovering her subjects through her abiding love for the outdoors; camping, hiking and canoeing. Native cultures inform the work Hélène has shown in several exhibitions. She enjoys working with previously unexplored materials and techniques. Hélène renders works ranging from semi-realist through to the abstract. Her current explorations on barnwood and logs are on display at the Métis Place at Place d'Orléans.

A member and volunteer at the Arbor Gallery in Vankleek Hill, Eastern Ontario, Hélène appreciates painting as a “beautiful hobby that allows me to explore my creativity and express myself”.

Stone's natural textures and colors constantly inspire this artist in whose hands steel becomes fluid as he shapes it to follow the stone’s contours, creating a gentle sense of movement with intent. He embraces raw finishes that invite the imagination to wander, allowing us to connect with and interpret his work.

Frank’s inspiration often comes from nature and mythology. In addition to sculpting animals, he also sculpts dragons!

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.

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.