Bernard Clark
A Kingston native, Bernard Clark has been exhibiting his fine art images for over 25 years. His photographic works often revolve around the theme of icons; whether portraiture or cityscsape, his subjects are elevated to a status evoking veneration.
Frank Danielson
Frank Danielson is an artist based in Toronto, Ontario. He studied in the Visual Arts program at York University. He has held solo exhibitions in Canada, France and Japan. Working in oils, Danielson’s unique compositions often juxtapose geometric patterns or abstracted brushstrokes in the service of representational landscapes.
Andrew Danson Danushevsky
Actively exhibiting since 1973, and featured in over 50 exhibitions, internationally recognized Canadian photographer, educator, author, and curator Andrew Danson Danushevsky continues to document and comment on the complex relationships and attachments of the human experience. For the last several years Danushevsky has called the remote Change Islands, NL home.
Jane Derby
Jane Derby’s exploration of the aesthetic qualities and thematic possibilities of recycled materials, may sometimes suggest an apocalyptic feel, while at the same time suggesting the possibility of a new future. Making art out of this material she calls us to look again at what we discard so easily. Based in Kingston, Derby’s works take their inspiration from landscapes of eastern Ontario.
Krzysztof Doniewski
Polish-Canadian artist Krzysztof Doniewski creates exhilarating oils. Unfettered by concepts of style or the constraints of the rational mind, impulsivity and intensity are the Krzysztof trademarks. His canvases celebrate the expressionistic and impressionistic impulse to capture life in paint.
Wallace Edwards
Beloved children’s book author and Yarker, Ontario based artist, Wallace Edwards, works primarily in watercolour, guache and pencil, using a variety of styles from cartoon to scientific illustration. His wonderful and whimsical works are renowned for their elaborately dertailed depiction of animals, both real and imaginary. In 2002, he won the Governor General’s Award for children’s book illustration.
Osvaldo González Herrera
Osvaldo González Herrera’s work defies conventional definitions; suggesting provocative narratives and enigmatic themes. Born in Cuba and now residing in Montreal, he developed his artistic work within the genres of graphic humor, paintings and graphics.
Margaret Hughes
Longtime Kingston resident, Margaret Hughes creates stunningly beautiful pastels, generally still lives, which often feature her own ceramic pieces, thus bridging the gap to the other artform to which she has devoted more than 50 years.
IMAMess…
Insouciant and irreverent, IMAMess… reimagines the discarded and reveals the imaginative playfulness of an artist’s mind. Broken skateboards often serve as a launching off point for reveries on broken dreams and broken promises, always presented with humour and intelligence.
Hersh Jacob
Hersh Jacob is a visual artist, writer, graphic designer and creative director. He has worked as an artist his entire professional life, seamlessly moving his pursuits through the mediums of cartooning, illustration, theatre, education and publishing.
Neli Nenkova
Bulgarian born and Sudbury-based artist Neli Nenkova chooses women as the dominant subject of her powerful work, in a provocative approach to address contemporary issues facing society. Influenced by the Italian masters of the High Renaissance and the ideas of the Surrealist movement, Nenkova uses her images to turn beauty into a form of questioning.
Erika Olson
Kingston artist, Erika Olson paints images, usually in oil, with saturated colour relationships and intuitive compositions. Inspired by both still life and emotional content, oftentimes impressionistic, other times fully abstracted. The resulting compositions are simplified and playful.
Evelyn Rapin
Making the invisible visible is central to my music inspired works, and the writings of these experts have supplied infinite inspiration.
Ewa Scheer
Ewa Scheer, based out of Montreal, is an artist of unique vision. In her ice project, Scheer applies non-toxic pigments on natural ice formed in the forest; her paintings exist for as little as two seconds and as long as two weeks. The work is then photographed, set behind thick plexiglass which mirrors ice, allowing her to preserve these transient images and capture the moment of interaction between creator and Creation.
Lee Stewart
Kingston-based artist, Lee Stewart was born and raised in Kashechewan, a small remote reserve on James Bay, Northern Ontario, spent years in the Rideau Lakes region, and studied art history at Carleton. Stewart’s cultural influences are as vast as his experience, without hierarchy or elevated status. As a self-taught artist, Stewart’s experimentation, innate curiosity, and openness continue to shape his evolving style.
Margaret Sutherland
Unique and compelling, Sutherland’s work provides commentary on both the sociological and biographical realm. Her images evoke emotion and provoke questioning.
Norman Takeuchi
Some years ago, as a way of coming to terms with my ethnicity, I began integrating into my predominantly abstract paintings images from traditional Japanese woodblock prints to illustrate the concept of duality – of being Japanese and Canadian.
Larry Thompson
Larry Thompson, the Kingston based artist behind Greyweathers Press, finds inspiration and graphic black-and-white possibilities in literature across the spectrum: classical epics, medieval legend, the Romantic poets, 20th century noir, fantasy literature and comic books, just to name a few. He creates bold and graphic prints from relief block, linoleum and wood.
JT Winik
Kinston based painter JT Winik seeks to capture the fine balance that binds opposites. A keen observer, her paintings merge beauty and awkwardness, freedom and control, fragility and strength, often evoking a strong emotional sense of discomfort in their portrayal of beauty. Highly regarded, her paintings are shown in Canada and Europe, and featured in magazines, books and book covers, internationally.
