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. |
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 |
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-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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
