Our Talented Artists
(To see a large view of any painting, click on it!)
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Barb Carr
Kingston ON barbecarr@hotmail.com I’m an experimental artist, which means that over the years I’ve enjoyed working in watercolours, acrylics, collage, and printmaking, with some pastels thrown in for good measure! My latest adventures have been with oil painting. I’ve challenged myself to create a small oil painting each day since early January, and I’ve delved into my travel sketchbooks for subjects. I’ve missed a few years of traveling to Portugal, so many of my new pieces celebrate that country’s colours and sunshine. Maybe in 2023, I’ll be able to return there, with sketchbooks in hand! |
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Barbara Patrick
Brockville ON bgracepatrick@gmail.com Barbara Patrick is a local artist who experiments with a variety of mediums, including acrylics, watercolour, alcohol inks, altered papers and Paverpol. Her unique interpretations of common objects and scenes use bold colours and textures, and her painting style is intuitive. With two years of the Covid Pandemic raging, Barbara’s consistent optimism has focused on looking ahead to a brighter future. Her “Pandemic” artwork exaggerates, intensifies and embellishes, using bold, bright and shimmering colours in Alcohol Inks and Acrylics. She feels that strong and vibrant colours can trick the brain into seeing one’s surroundings in a more positive way and arouse one’s curiosity to look for new possibilities. Barbara’s “Pandemic” projects celebrate creativity, colour, optimism and appreciation of all the opportunities that our imaginations provide. |
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Belia Brandow
Lyn ON Website These past two years have forced me to slow down, enjoy, appreciate and be inspired by the everyday world around me. My theme for the show this year will be “Along Country Roads”. With limited access to my friends and usual venues, on sunny days I would take long drives throughout the counties stopping to take photos of whatever intrigued me. These photos, along with my memories, have inspired me to paint everyday scenes into places of beauty. I just needed to take the time to truly see and feel with all my senses the light, colour and temperature. |
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Betty Matthews
Gananoque ON Website I believe I have come to the end of my “old boathouses saga” and while I endeavour to paint local subjects of interest – surely I can find something different. Weather permitting, the great outdoors is available for inspiration. Out of my window, the Gananoque River provides river otters playing on the ice, swans swimming majestically by, and a wide variety of migrating waterfowl coming and going. |
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Carolyn Huff-Winters
Kingston ON carstewin@aol.com I use several different mediums...acrylics, powdered charcoal, oils, collage, etc, to create contemporary modern art works of landscapes (detailed or abstracted); trees, cliffs and florals in powdered charcoal. I have no particular genre. Powdered charcoals are what I do most, but I've been working lately on developing skills and expertise at creating abstracted landscapes in acrylics. |
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Helma Gansen
Gananoque ON helma.gansen@gmail.com Website The beauty of the St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands inspired me to paint. Capturing natures beauty is my quest and reinterpreting on canvas colour, light and composition is my ongoing passion and challenge. My training as an Interior Designer provided the opportunity to develop sketching skills and to explore different paint media. I began to paint in 1999. Since then I have attended many workshops and participated in Plein Air Painting Excursions and Competitions. As a past member of VAGA, TIARTS (Thousand Island Artist Association) and the Rideau Lakes Artist Association I have participated in many art shows. I am currently an active member of TIFAA (Thousand Island Fine Art Association) and FMBAA (Fort Myers Beach Artist Association). My paintings vary from landscape to floral and figurative. My preferred medium for landscapes is oil. I use mixed media for my abstract work. |
Winter Sun and the Beach
The winter of 2020 / 2021 will be remembered as the Covid Winter. Caution and restrictions kept most of us at home. Socializing with friends was only possible by going for a walk and keeping the 6 ft distance. Walking the beach at Browns Bay, alone or with friends, became a favourite for me.The sound of the waves was ever present. It was always peaceful, and at times grey and overcast. But every once in a while the sun would come out and where ever it touched, it created miracles. This is one I captured in late November 2020. |
Buttermilk Falls on the Salmon River
Some years ago, at a visit to Tamworth, we heard about the Buttermilk Falls and decided to find them.We were well rewarded. It is a beautiful setting, although most of the surroundings are on private land and access is limited. I took some photos with the intend to use them in a traditional landscape painting. However, when I started painting I decided the capture the spirit of the afternoon and the wonderful late summer colours in an abstracted version of the scenery. |
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Ingrid Schmidt B.F.A.
Gananoque ON ingridschmidtartist.com artingridschmidt@gmail.com I am so grateful to live in the beautiful area of the 1000 Islands. The mighty St. Lawrence River, the rugged landscape, the windswept pines and ever changing colours of the water and sky offer constant inspiration. I try to capture this in my large paintings done in acrylic, oil or watercolour. In my floral paintings I try to paint the essence rather than giving an exact rendering. |
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John Sorensen
Mallorytown ON jmsorensen@xplornet.com John's interest in architectural salvage, dancing, movement, folk art, old painted surfaces and found objects influence his choice of subject matter. He uses the medium of oil paint on canvas and assemblage sculptures created from found objects to interpret what he experiences in his daily life. |
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Julie Davidson Smith
Visual Artist and Educator Kingston ON www.juliedavidsonsmith.com Cell: 613-583-8901 - Feel free to text me Julie Davidson Smith is multi-media visual artist whose work explores painting, encaustic art and sculpture. In this show Julie will be exhibiting her encaustic etchings and concrete sculptures for the garden. Julie's love of nature, birds, yoga and the beauty of life's simple pleasures are expressed in these works. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin |
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Kitty Kelly
Brockville ON Website Kitty's passion is painting - she wants to share what she sees and feels by putting it onto canvas with the hope that the viewer experiences those senses as well. Self taught, Kitty has always been interested in the world of art and is now immersed full time in painting. Her favourite medium is acrylic, however, oil & watercolour are sometimes used. She was born in Toronto, Ontario & has lived in Australia, Victoria, B.C., P.E.I. and now resides in Brockville, Ontario. |
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Margaret McLauchlan
Kingston ON mmclauchlan@mac.com When the pandemic first began and we were pretty much just isolated in our own homes I decided the one thing I could do every day was paint. It’s hard to worry about anything when you are surrounded by the magical possibilities of paint! I was so happy to find that Art Noise would deliver supplies to my condo so I could just keep painting. And even though I was inside my own apartment by myself I could still dream of those wide open spaces in my beloved Arctic and see them in my mind’s eye and know that one day I will be able to travel there again. |
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Martha Stroud
Kingston ON marthastroud1@gmail.com This past summer I spent a lot of time exploring the area around my cottage near Sharbot Lake, and walking along the Cataraqui River closer to home. There is always something inspiring wherever there are trees, especially in the autumn. |
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Monique van Someren
Elizabethtown-Kitley ON https://moniquevansomeren.com/ Monique, together with her spouse and two rescue dogs, lives overlooking the mighty St. Lawrence River, which is a huge inspiration for her every day and every season anew. She is a Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts graduate and ever since she can remember she has been interested in painting, drawing and photography, resulting in decades of creativity and above all, a tremendous amount of fun and gratification. Monique’s passion is to depict nature’s astonishing beauty, but also the allure of those commonplace everyday objects that are so easily overlooked or taken for granted. She hopes that her artwork will encourage and motivate the viewer to take a moment and to be fascinated by the wondrous nature and all those seemingly insignificant little gems that surround us all. For her drawings she uses coloured pencils with a touch of alcohol marker and airbrush on drawing paper, while her paintings are mostly oil paint on canvas or wood. |
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Rachel Legault
Brockville ON rlegault12@cogeco.ca https://www.facebook.com/Rachel-Legault-Art-100515955102362/ Sometimes I don’t have to go very far to find inspiration. The first painting came about after a walk through the woods just up the street from my home. It was beautiful sunny day and the tree tops were swaying in the cool breeze. The shadows they cast seemed to be dancing on the snow. I felt compelled to capture this tranquil scene on canvas. |
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Sian Tucker
Brockville ON siantucker22@gmail.com Spring arrives, the frozen ground has thawed and sap pumps along branches, pushing tender leaves towards the sun. Mother Nature dashes about, waking those still sleeping beneath last year's leaves. 'Stay Connected' is painted from a photo I took of the path through woods on our then property. It was May 2020 and our first Covid lockdown. The trilliums were blooming, and "Stay connected" intoned the radio hosts as texting, Face Time and Zoom meetings entered our vocabulary and replaced hugs. We walked the dog along the path through the woods to the top field in all seasons and I knew the trees well: they are wiser than we are. Deciduous and coniferous grow happily together, giving each other a quick hug as their branches dance in the wind. Their roots, pushing around rock outcrops, reach out to their family members and neighbours sending silent messages back and forth beneath our feet. Around their trunks the dog sniffs out messages left by other animals and leaves a quick message of his own. The trees and the dog know the importance of staying connected. |
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Solange Leman
Brockville ON solleman3@gmail.com “I paint for the pure pleasure of playing with colour, paint and texture ... just to see ... what if.” I love colour in my paintings but these past two years I have found myself gradually changing to using very little of it. It has been a calming feeling to play with only texture (which I love) and just a hint of colour. Slowly I am once again returning to my passion “texture and colour.” |
