Ross Robertshaw
Ross Robertshaw was born in Toronto in 1919. He worked there for 19 years painting city scenes and portraits of old homes. When he retired, he moved to just North of Peterborough into a 135 year old cabin with his wife, and continued painting.
Owen Staples
Owen Staples was born in England in 1866 and emigrated to Canada at the age of 8. In 1885, he began to study under another famous Canadian painter, George Agnew Reid. Over the course of his artistic career, Staples became a masterful pastelist, painter, etcher, political cartoonist, author, musician, and naturalist.
Jack Reid
Jack Reid was born June 1, 1925, in Toronto. When starting out, he sold his art in shopping mall's art shows, anywhere he could. Jack worked as a graphic artist until 1970, and only then did he venture into the world of "pure art" full-time, with little security and no formal training.
Michael Behnan
Behnan was born in Pakistan, and grew up in Prescott Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto where he received an Honours Fine Art degree. He often demonstrates his remarkable ability to turn simple visual ideas of folk art into many one person exhibits across Canada as well as South America.
Marthe Rakine
Marthe Rakine was not a Canadian painter for very long, and yet in the years she stayed here she left her mark on Canadian art. Rakine was born in Moscow in 1906, but soon after her birth the family moved to Paris.
Otto Reinhold Jacobi
Otto Reinhold Jacobi was a German Canadian artist born in 1812. He was associated with the Dusseldorf school of painting. As a young artist, he studied in Berlin at the Royal Academy of arts, and later at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. He worked in Nassau and Canada as a landscape and genre painter.
Philippa Hunter
Philippa Hunter was born in Halifax in 1928. As an artist, she was mostly self-taught but did some study under Arthur Lismer and Ralph Allen. Though she loved art from her early days, she prioritized her family, and became a professional artist only once her children left home.