Works From Home Featured Artist - Paul Williams
Paul designs and builds unique sculptural art pieces in brass, copper and stainless steel. He has won many awards for his work and has had pieces shown in Canada; the USA, the United Kingdom, Europe; Australia, & Montreal Olympics 1976.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Bev Williams
Beverley decorates hard shelled gourds with pyrography (wood burning) and works with leather, metal, fibres and wood. Beverley graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1969 and won 2 scholarships to travel in Europe in 1970, visiting other artisans in various countries. Together they started Williams Design Studio in Jan. 1974.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Sharon Myatt
Sharon began her career as a community college teacher for over 20 years. Sharon then switched to the non-profit sector for over 20 years and has been recognized by winning several international awards for initiatives that fell under her leadership, helping corporations and non-profit agencies develop strategic partnerships.
Works From Home Featured Artist - RoseMarie Condon
A lifelong fine artist, illustrator, graphic designer, art instructor, photographer and writer; RoseMarie’s studio is in Fenelon Falls near the wilderness and rural subjects that inspire her oil, acrylic or watercolour paintings. RoseMarie expresses her fascination for Canada’s unique and fragile ecology in her paintings, poetry and prose.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Marcus Leydolt
The journey of this gifted artist began at the early age of 3. While playing with tempera paints, Markus displayed to his parents a raw, natural ability for expressing himself through art—a talent deeply-rooted on both sides of his family. These creative inspirations would lead him to showcase his work at 9 years of age in the “Young at Art” section of the Kawartha Arts Festival.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Linda Kelly-Cherney
After Completing a Fine Arts Degree in St. Louis, Missouri, Linda explored the human body through drawing, photography and installation works. As an artist and teacher of Visual and Media art, clay has become her primary vehicle of expression.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Lesley Drummond
Lesley Drummond is an artist, educator and curator who has been actively involved in the Arts community of Kawartha Lakes since 1985. Currently on the Board of the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council and Director of the Kawartha Arts Network since 2007, she is based in Janetville.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Joy McCallister
Joy McCallister is a Nova Scotia born artist who lives in the village of Kirkfield in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes area. She has lived in Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario. Joy’s inspirations for her artwork come from her love of music and nature, her background in dance, and her roots in Canada’s Maritimes.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Joan Forsythe
Joan is a resident of the City of The Kawartha Lakes, residing in Lindsay. She practised Interior Design professionally in Toronto for her working life. She has a Bachelor's degree from the School of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. As retirement approached she got back to her love of artmaking.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Jewell Allington
After a successful nursing career, I decided that I needed another avenue to express my passion for life. In my mid- sixties, I picked up a pencil and brush and with great trepidation, I followed an unplanned, instinctive passion to produce art. How my life had changed!
Works From Home Featured Artist - Grace Hanney
Grace Hanney is a self-taught acrylic painter. After retirement from the business world, she looked for a creative outlet. A local workshop inspired her to start a new hobby using her old stencil paints, along with some dollar store canvases and brushes.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Elayne Windsor
I am a non-objective, collage artist from Reaboro, Ontario. I have been creating collages for over 30 years. My first works were small black and white images. My years of exploration have led to large scale, colourful works that contain both found and purchased paper.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Barb Callaghan
Living in Lindsay, Barb does her artwork from a small studio in her home. She is new to displaying her art publicly. She has always been an artist in her heart. Barb has taken many art courses in watercolour painting, photography, drawing, acrylic painting and expressive arts.
Works From Home Featured Artist - Anders Widjedal
While in self isolation I decided to explore a variety of ideas and mediums. I had several projects on the go at the same time and it was interesting to see how they fed each other, even though the approaches were quite different. (This was also a good way to keep me entertained).