1-Katherine Crichton
416-694-3832
Katherine Crichton began her art studies at King’s College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Since coming to Canada, she has studied at Toronto College of Art, Haliburton School of Art, and has taken numerous workshops and courses from a variety of teachers.
She works mainly in watercolour, but also uses acrylics and oils. Her paintings demonstrate her eclectic interest. She has exhibited with the Scarborough Art Guild, the Toronto Watercolour society, at the Toronto City Hall show, and in her own home.
This year she has been inspired by trips to England, the French Alps, Provence and Halibuton.
At all times she strives for interesting and unique paintings.(416) 694 3832
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Katherine Crichton began her art studies at King’s College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Since coming to Canada, she has studied at Toronto College of Art, Haliburton School of Art, and has taken numerous workshops and courses from a variety of teachers.
She works mainly in watercolour, but also uses acrylics and oils. Her paintings demonstrate her eclectic interest. She has exhibited with the Scarborough Art Guild, the Toronto Watercolour society, at the Toronto City Hall show, and in her own home. This year she has been inspired by trips to England, the French Alps, Provence and Haliburton. At all times she strives for interesting and unique paintings. |
1-Karen Franzen
(416) 465–7477
Karen.franzen@sympatico.ca
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Karen Franzen is an A.O.C.A (Associate of the Ontario College of Art) where she majored in Ceramics and Textile Design. She was a resident of The Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre. Since 1989 Karen has exhibited her ceramic work in Canada the USA and abroad.
Currently Karen enjoys working from her home studio situated just east of Toronto’s east-end neighbourhood known as “Little India”. Here she offers classes, creates custom tile work and prepares for several yearly shows. Her work can be found at fine craft galleries including Meta4 in Port Perry, and The Guild Shop in Toronto. Locally you can find her work at Pippins Tea Emporuim in The Beach. |
1-Sandra Greenwood
(905) 627 2729
Sandra@touch-of-glass.ca
www.touch-of-glass.ca
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Sandra Greenwood began as a stained glass artist but this soon morphed into a life changing career in molten glass art. This amazing journey of using molten glass to create lampwork beads happened a few years ago from her studio in Dundas, Ontario. She is known for her detailed designs on her glass beads which range in all styles from bold and vibrant, to earthy and simple. The use of colour, design and her attention to detail make each piece a unique and functional work of wearable art. Some of Sandra’s art was recently showcased in the magazine-ACF (Amazing Canadian Fashion)…a highly circulated magazine sold nationwide. |
2-Helen Billett
(416) 878 6603
helen@meringueinc.ca
www.meringueinc.ca
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Helen Billett is an Artist and Digital Media Designer living in Toronto, ON. Her education includes an Honours BFA in Visual Arts from UWO and a diploma in Digital Media Design. After the birth of her second child, Helen left her career as Senior Web Designer for Canada’s largest book retailer and started her company, Meringue Inc., offering an exciting range of art for kids and home décor.
Helen’s signature style is the result of combining painting, drawing, photography and digital illustration in a technique she describes as “digital collage”. Her licensed artwork can be found in boutiques across Canada and Giclée prints of Helen’s work are available on her website MeringueInc.ca |
2-Lara Bazant
(416) 879 6367
www.bazant.ca
info@bazant.ca
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Lara Bazant infuses her 15+ years of design experience with a sense of spirit and preservation to create jewelry that merges global sustainability with individual style. Her unique adornments are internationally recognized for their versatile use, off-beat yet classy look and environmental nod.
In her Distillery District studio she uses sterling silver to breathe new life into vintage, natural and fair trade stones which she sources from her many travels. Lara’s background includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University and a Diploma in Design from the International Academy of Design. She is a proud member of Ontario Crafts Council, Green Enterprise Ontario, and Fashion Takes Action. |
3-Julie Clark
(416) 694 0627
www.julieclarkphotography.com
julie@julieclarkphotography.com
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Julie Clark is a Toronto Photographer and Mixed Media Artist who combines photography and encaustic to create painterly images. Her work includes images of flowers, nature, landscapes and interesting details that capture her imagination.
In 2009 Julie trained at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana and has started a second career as a Fine Artist. She is a member of The Beach Photo Club, The Artists’ Network and The Beach Studio Tour. |
3-Kalyna Pidwerbesky
(416) 509 7087
www.artofkaruna.com
info@artofkaruna.com
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Kalyna Pidwerbesky is a Canadian artisan who creates richly-coloured fibreworks using handwork techniques. Inspired by transitions in nature and the creative process, Kalyna creates art as an offering of joy. She blends her adept skill in feltmaking, embroidery, and beading with the finest quality materials to create a wearable art collection that is beautifully lightweight and luxurious.
In 2008 Kalyna earned a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from OCAD University and started her contemporary textile art and design company, Art of Karuna. Currently her downtown studio at 401 Richmond, Toronto operates as a workshop, gallery, and wellness centre. |
4-Anna Clarey
(416) 686 6865
anna@annaclarey.com
www.annaclarey.com
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Born in England, Anna showed an interest in art from an early age. Her passion for art, however, was put on the backburner while she earned a degree in microbiology at the University of Guelph and pursued a career in science. She rediscovered her art about 10 years ago, while taking a career break to raise her family of three boys. Completely self taught, she started selling her art around 5 years ago and is now a full time artist.
Anna specializes in vivid, acrylic landscapes and floral studies. She boldly uses colour and contrast to capture beautiful snapshots of her life & environment. She hopes her work will evoke a joyful response in the viewer and convey her general sense of optimism for life. Most of her inspiration is from her home city of Toronto, her travels and her neighbour’s gardens. Since she works from photographs, you will often see her out and about with her digital camera in hand. Anna is also a member of the Beach Guild of Fine Art in Toronto. She sells her work in galleries, from her home studio, shows or through commissions. |
5-Pat Hymas
(416) 699 2219
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Pat delights in working with watercolour and acrylics. It is a constant pleasure for her to mix, blend and harmonize colours. Looking at paintings, talking about paintings and particularly creating paintings are great experiences for Pat. She has lived in the Beach for 46 years and her favorite subjects are those right on her own doorstep. “The ravine, the lake and my own garden are the best stimuli one could wish for.” Pat has participated in many shows and exhibitions and those have added to her growth and understanding of the demands of the media she has chosen. |
6-Dorothy Mould
(416) 489 7249
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Dorothy Mould was fortunate to be able to study art at the Ontario College of Art when members of the renowned Group of Seven were still around. One of her instructors was Franklin Carmichael. Dorothy works mostly in oils. Many of her smaller landscapes exhibit bright, bold colours, while her larger paintings tend to be more subdued in their colour palette. And yet all her work captures the essence of the landscape she is invoking – the wind in the trees, the waves out on a lake, or lapping against a shoreline.
Extract of a Beach Metro article by Bil MacLean, 2010. |
7-Barbara Banfield
(416) 464 9255
bbanfield@rogers.com
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My work continues to grow and develop surface, texture and glazes that refer to environmental imagery. Bringing together both urban and rural landscapes is key to my artistic development. Through the constant testing of clay bodies and glaze materials I have found beautiful and delicate micro crystalline surfaces that flow and enhance form.
While the forms remain functional, wheel thrown and altered, they are intended to be used and admired as art. It is my intention that they marry pleasure and function, and sit well with the hand and eye. |
7-Katherine Wortel
(416) 698 1223
Katherine.wortel@gmail.com
www.katherinewortel.com
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Katherine is primarily a landscape painter, and she has spent the last several summers painting on location in the Maritimes, Ontario’s cottage country, and near her former home in the Beach in Toronto. A recent move out of the city to a farm in Hastings County has provided Katherine with unlimited vistas and many new landscapes for inspiration.
Katherine prefers to paint outdoors in the warmer months, and spends her winters painting inside her home studio, where her subject matter includes sketches from her travels, fresh flowers from local markets, and colourful interiors. |
8-Lucille Crighton
(416) 694 4046
www.lucillecrighton.com
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Lucille Crighton’s sumptuous jackets, vests and scarves are intricately handwoven using a colourful array of yarns. With fibre as her palette, Lucille continues to explore new ideas. Inspired by nature, art, historical and contemporary textiles, she weaves her web in a rainbow of vibrant and complex combinations.
Lucille has been inducted by the One of a Kind Show into their Hall of Fame honouring the quality, craftsmanship and outstanding achievements of an artist. |
8-John Dowding
(416) 694 3601
www.johndowding.com
john.dowding@sympatico.ca
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“Old Peak” is the name the Inca inhabitants called the mountain-top citadel in the Andes that the conquering Spanish never found. It was discovered by an American professor from Yale University in April 1911. Built circa 1400, it remained in use until just before the Spanish came in 1532. Climbing through the ‘ruins’ to-day, I was filled with a sense of awe and ’utter amazement’. Almost everything, 600 years later, was still intact except the original thatched roofs and the wooden structures that held them in place.
How could any people in1400 A.D. build a city on top of a mountain in the Andes, without horses, with no heavy equipment, not using the technical advantages of ‘the Wheel’, with no written language to record information, with huge stones carved from the mountain built into walls with such exact skill that even to-day you cant fit the edge of a Visa card between the stones. (I tried and failed.) All this, while trying to administer an Empire that was larger than Rome ever was. Machu Picchu was totally self-sufficient. The fresh water aquaducts and drainage systems are ‘works of engineering art’. The terraces provided the soil to grow the food needed. Llamas and alpacas provided wool for clothing and milk. Weaving and pottery were other crafts necessary for this ‘distinct culture’.The ‘skills’of the ‘weavers’ rivalled that of the legendary ‘Spider Women’ of the Navajos in North America. Apart from ‘a sense of awe’ that Machu Picchu gave me, I suppose the most apparent sensation was that of ‘Vertigo’. The vertical pathways are stone steps, carved from the granite of the mountain, in some cases 150 steps in a series, with no railings and the ‘series’ just keep coming at you. Many of the tourists used two canes . Some were on crutches and some with clubbed feet. I quickly forgot about myself and my ‘arthritic knee’. It is truly ‘the most Sacred Place’ I have visited in my lifetime. Just wish I had gone there in my ‘twenties’ because Machu Picchu is “not for Sissies” or “Old Guys” like me. Very happy and relieved to make it up and back. It’s ‘One for the Ages’, one you shouldn’t miss ! For everyone, some things in life are ‘forever’. For me this is one.’ |
8-Tod Waring
(416) 535 5587
www.waringworks.ca
tod@waringworks.ca
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Tod Waring designs and crafts unique metal pieces for the home and garden. In the past six years of welding, Tod has made over a thousand items. His designs include wall sconces, plant stands, garden stakes and trellises, railings, house numbers, decorative glass window hangers and an assortment of spinning tops.
He earned a B.A. in Fine Art at the University of Guelph. Tod Waring has been active in the arts community since 1980, participating in numerous gallery exhibitions, studio tours and arts and crafts events. Tod’s work is inspired by his summers of camping in the Ontario wilderness and his love of gardening in his Toronto backyard. An appreciation for design – old and new – and a sense of whimsy are displayed in his work. |
9-Dianne Shelton
(416) 699 4358
www.dianneshelton.ca
dianne.shelton@sympatico.ca
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Dianne’s painterly style and abstract sensations are evident in her new series of canvases and new works on paper. Intense colours and flowing movement draw ones eye sometimes stirring the imagination to reveal fragments of imagery as a delightful surprise. Her figurative and landscape pieces will be exhibited as well. Commissions are available throughout the year from loft sizes to small scale. |
9-Jane Saracino
(416) 926-9814
www.saracinodesigns.com
jane@saracinodesigns.com
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Comedian Billy Connelly once riffed that “A woman’s mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!” So, speaking woman to woman, wouldn’t you, love to own a totally awesome designer-crafted hand-bag to store all those little surprises?
Jane Saracino is a Toronto-based handbag designer with a growing clientele of women who have complemented their wardrobe and accessories with one of her artfully – and meticulously – designed handbags. As you can see from her web site, www.saracinodesigns.com, the handbags are fit for the gal shopping along Queen East or West on a Saturday, or the professional woman who wants to spice up her work-day attire with a stylish edge. Jane designs bags for the professional on the go which can hold daytime essentials and a couple of styles for evening outings, garden parties, weekends away or a casual brunch. |
10-Ruth Hayes
(416) 699 8609
www.shamanstree.com
shamanstree@gmail.com
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Ruth’s life-long passion has been painting. She has a B.A. degree in fine arts and a Master’s Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy. Her paintings have been sold and exhibited throughout Canada and the U.S. with her work in private and corporate collections. Her subject ranges from children and landscape done in a loose expressive style to imagery that reaches into dream-like liminal spaces of the spirit and collective unconscious, tapping into myth and archetype.
Ruth’s work has been described as healing, inspiring and peaceful. She teaches art throughout Toronto, works individually with students and her studio is open by appointment. |
11-Nathalie Vachon
(416) 691 5195
www.nathalievachon.com
info@nathalievachon.com
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The colour blue, the sea, the moon, hills, mountains, memories of Japan, Hawaii, Cuba, the water, the love of the abstract, of mood, memory, home, emotion and motion… these are just some of the things that inspire and find their way into Nathalie ’s paintings. Nathalie has studied at Wilfrid Laurier University , the Honolulu Academy of Art, at Lesley College (Med. Creative Arts in Learning) and has studied/lived in Osaka , Japan . Also a storyteller/author, Nathalie lives, writes, paints, performs, teaches and is a creative coach in the Beach. |
11-Caprice Akram
(416) 602 7745
www.capriceakram.com
info@capriceakram.com
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I have always been passionate about style and the fashion arts. Upon completing high school, I followed my passion and was accepted at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Fueled by desire and hard work, I graduated in 1994, winning the Carol Rapp design award for Jewelry design. Immediately, I started my own jewelry company to continue my creative designs and share them with the public. In 1996, I spent four months in Israel cutting diamonds to improve my knowledge of gemstones.
For the past 15 years, I have been working hard at developing and growing my business. I currently have a large clientele base in both the wholesale market, and with individual clients. My work is found in fine shops all across the country and I participate in the One of a Kind craft show twice a year since 1996 to sell my work directly to my customers. |
12-Roderik Mayne
(416) 694 3277
roderikmayne@gmail.com
www.roderikmayne.com
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Roderik Mayne is a well-known art director and production designer in Canadian film and television. His many credits include That Beautiful Somewhere, .45, Jeff Ltd, Street Time, Due South, Wind at My Back, We the Jury, Robocop, Riverdale, The Campbells, Night Heat, Animorphs, Goosebumps, Madonna The Early Years, Beautiful Dreamers and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Educated in both Canada and the U.S., Rod holds a master’s degree in fine arts from Carnegie-Mellon University, a BFA in design from Concordia University, and a BA in anthropology from McGill University. His paintings have been exhibited in and around the Toronto area. |
12-Zsuzsa Monostory
(416) 538 0293
www.zsuzsamonostory.com
zsuzsa@rogers.com
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Zsuzsa‘s rich heritage and scientific background as a biologist is highly evident in her sculptural work. Inspired by nature her whimsical, expressive human figures, animal sculptures and narrative compositions are finished in various firing methods including Japanese style Raku, wood and gas firing.Her work is represented in several galleries throughout Ontario as well as in private and public collections. Exhibitions, commissions and sales internationally have resulted numerous awards. She also teaches on a regular basis.
Recently Zsuzsa resides in Toronto and works in her home studio as well as in Williams Mill Creative Art Center – www.williamsmill.com that is located in the charming hamlet of Glen Williams, Ontario. Zsuzsa was born and raised in Hungary, received her Phd in biology at ELTE University in Budapest. She came to Canada with her family in 1989, worked in Mount Sinai Hospital till her new passion took over biology. A self taught full time artist, who welcomes visitors to her studios. |
