Instructors
Grey Bruce Woodturners Guild
Grey-Bruce Woodturners Guild (GBWG) was established to provide an open, informative and relaxed atmosphere where any person with an interest in woodturning would be able to develop their skills, increase their knowledge and enjoy the company of others with similar interests. In its 15 year history, the guild has promoted the art of woodturning through its monthly meetings (in Kincardine), demonstrations at local events, and instructional programs.
Marion Anderson
Marion is an avid watercolour enthusiast, and one of our most popular instructors. Originally from Kent County, Marion currently makes her home and studio in New Dundee. She teaches for the Waterloo Region District School Board, Homer Watson House and Gallery, and Conestoga College, and is an active member of the Central Ontario Art Association.
Wesley Bates
Wesley was born in Yukon, educated at Mount Alison University, N.B., and pursued a career as a painter and printmaker in Hamilton, where he also established West Meadow Press. Primarily known as a wood engraver, Wesley has illustrated books for prestigious publishing houses and for well-known writers such as Timothy Findley, W.O. Mitchell, and Stuart McLean. His work is represented in numerous public collections and is in private collections worldwide. He received the Hamilton Arts Award in 2000, and now lives in Clifford, where he works at wood engraving, painting and fine press printing.
Charlie Bell
A resident of Southampton, Charlie is the director of the Stardust Big Band. A music graduate of the University of Western Ontario, he was music co-ordinator for the Bruce County Board of Education from 1984 to 1999, and continues to be an avid promoter of both jazz performance and music education in the region. He performs regularly with his big band and jazz combo throughout the area.
Caz Bentley
Caz Bentley is a Kitchener based artist, in his studio called Verre Borealis he works on a wide range of art. He is an accomplished wood and stone carver, but also excels at stained glass, sculpture, painting, ceramics and silver point drawing. He has been teaching some of these art forms at the Goderich Celtic Festival for the past 7 years, he is also a teacher of Construction Technology and Wood Manufacturing for the Waterloo District School Board.
Linda Bester
Linda has had a lifelong passion for art. After moving to this area she began teaching watercolour painting. Her distinct style reflects her affinity for vibrant colour and delicate attention to the play of light. Her work is highly sought and can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide. Along with her husband Gary, Linda also runs an Artists Retreat near Shallow Lake where she teaches art classes and workshops, and offers accommodation for painters and others in a beautiful setting.
Scott James Bester
Scott is a trained Illustrator, Scott has studied at Georgian College, York University, and the prestigious Ontario College of Art and Design. This education has given him the experience and flexibility of several mediums as well as versatility in subject matter. A nature lover since childhood, Scott resides on a hobby farm in Alvanley, just west of Owen Sound, Ontario.Completely renovating a two storey “chicken coop” into his Studio and Gallery, he now works and sells his paintings here. In addition to commission work, Scott also teaches children’s drawing classes at this location.
Karen Brioux
Karen has spent the past 14 years teaching art to children, teens and adults, as well as selling her own work and painting both corporate and residential murals. Karen has studied Fine Arts at Sheridan College and with many leading artists. Inspired by her professional artist grandfather, she has lived and loved the beauty of art since childhood. She is an encouraging teacher who loves children and nature, and is strengthened by sharing her skills and enjoyment of art with students.
Cora Brittan
Cora is a mixed media artist and calligrapher whose techniques and materials include watercolours, gold and silver leafing, brush and copper point drawing and lino printing, using various mediums on fabric, vellum, tiles, glass and Japanese paper. She has studied in Ontario, England and Mexico, has taught at the National Institute of Design in India, and continues to teach in a variety of educational and artistic venues in Ontario. Her work has been exhibited in a number of galleries in Ontario and Mexico, and is included in collections in Toronto and Japan.
Eric Brittan
Eric was born in Hamilton, Ontario and educated at Sir John Cass College in London, England, where he earned a Dip. AD at Hornsey College of Art and an ATC at London University. He returned to Canada in 1977, where he taught and still works as a painter and sculptor. His work is in public, corporate, academic and private collections. He has shown regularly in galleries in Canada, England, France, Mexico and India since 1971. Eric just retired from Sheridan College where he taught drawing and painting in the foundation program called Art Fundamentals, the animation program, the art and art history program and the school of illustration.
Marianne Broome
Marianne Broome was born in England but spent much of her childhood in Malaysia where the exotic scenery, plants and animals left a lasting impression on her and consequently her artwork. Marianne settled in Canada in 1980 and lives in the countryside near Toronto. Marianne’s art education in England has been furthered by studies at the Haliburton School of the Arts and her work has been shown in many juried exhibitions in which she has received numerous awards. Her work is in private and corporate collections in Canada, U.S.A., England, Australia and Malaysia.
Margaux Bucher
Margaux Bucher graduated from OCAD with a Bachelor of Design. Though her focus was on illustration, she continues to educate herself in all forms of art and design, from oil painting to computer design programs. Nomadic by nature, and a world traveller, come summer she can always be found on her cottage deck in Southampton. Her involvement with the SAS has stretched from art student to volunteer to summer gallery assistant to instructor. Margaux is currently contemplating her next adventure while dabbling in graphic design.
Phil Chadwick
Phil is an artist, avid canoeist, meteorologist with Environment Canada, apiarist and occasional writer for Harrowsmith and other nature-oriented magazines. He was the 2005-06 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Tour Speaker, the 2006 Southampton Art School Artist-in-Residence and 2006 Algonquin Art Centre artist. Phil’s passion for creation combined with his broad knowledge, artistic talent and wonderful sense of humour make him a uniquely gifted instructor.
Jane Champagne
Jane studied art in Toronto and France, and after a career as an editor/writer/illustrator, became a full-time professional painter – including two summers as artist-in-residence at Killarney Mountain Lodge. She wrote Painting the Ontario Landscape, a practical guide to working in watercolour on location and is working on a second book, about painting in the Bruce. Her watercolours, acrylics and oils are in some 60 corporate and dozens of private collections in Canada, the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy; she is a Charter Member of the Toronto Watercolour Society, Jane is also a member of the Central Ontario Art Association, Society of Canadian Artists and the Arts and Letters Club, and is listed in Canadian Who’s Who.
Catherine Crowe
Catherine Crowe divides her time between Champlevé, enamelling, singing, researching and teaching. Celtic, Iron Age, Byzantine, and Medieval designs inspire her fine enamel jewellery which she exhibits at folk and Celtic gatherings in the US and Canada. She teaches at George Brown College as well; is active with the Metal Arts Guild and a director of Celtic Women International. Building cultural community is an abiding passion -- by making music and visual art meaningful in a contemporary cultural context through teaching, performing and the artist collective An Droichead/The Bridge.
John Day
John is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and a member of the Arts & Letters Club, Toronto. Originally from Scotland, his enthusiasm for the landscape truly became an obsession after his arrival in Canada in 1989. Painting has been John’s passion for almost 30 years. Nature and the play of light upon the landscape are endless sources of inspiration. Preferring to paint on location, his work captures the fleeting effects of light and expresses his vision of the many moods of the Canadian landscape.
Al Downs
Al Downs is an original in his approach to art, and variety is his middle name. He’s a former consultant in Visual Arts for the North York Board of Education, an instructor in the Ministry of Education’s Visual Arts course, and, before taking early retirement, a Visual Arts instructor at the Faculty of Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Since moving to Southampton, he has been an active teacher and volunteer at the Art School and Gallery Shop, as well as an accomplished painter and printmaker.
Carl M. Durance
Carl lives in a tranquil setting hemmed between Colpoys Bay to the North and the Niagara Escarpment to the South. A Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo led his creative instinct and desire for challenge to the position of Associate Director of a research and development group in the exciting field of computer software at that University. Carl now focuses that creative energy and his desire to learn in artistic endeavors. He is accomplished in different art forms, using clay, glass, metal, and wood, including pottery, lampworked/flameworked glass, stained glass, jewelry, woodcarving, and woodturning.
Timothy Dyck
Timothy Dyck studied printmaking at Concordia University in Montreal, receiving an MFA. Taking an interest in the historical connection between prints and books, he pursued an apprenticeship with master bookbinder Odette Drapeau. Timothy has given numerous workshops and talks for all ages and collaborates with artists on their binding projects. Opening The Colour Jar, an art supply, framing and bookbinding shop in Durham, has enabled Timothy to gather together many of his skills and interests.
Diane Edwards
Diane Edwards finds inspiration in the Canadian landscape and the traditional designs of mythology, she creates marquetry art and fine crafted wood boxes. Working from her studio in Owen Sound, she supplies a number of galleries across Canadian, and custom work internationally. "Wood was once a living , growing material, and the grain characteristics tell a story of that previous life. I like to work with that natural grain to tell a new story in my craft."
Christa Eggers
Christa is a full-time artist -- and one of our most popular instructors -- whose paintings and commissioned works are in collections in Canada, the U.S. and Germany. She studied pastels, portraiture, and watercolour at the Ringling College of Art in Sarasota, and in Punta Gorda, Florida, at the University of Guelph and at Georgian College. An accomplished teacher with a dedicated following, Christa has exhibited in numerous juried art shows, and several solo shows. She is often in studio tours -- and has also illustrated a book.
Joan Frost Oman
Joan is best known for her landscape and portrait work in watercolour and oil. A 25-year member of the Etobicoke arts community, she is an active member of the Etobicoke Art Group and the Society of Canadian Artists, has exhibited widely and received a number of awards. A longtime summer visitor, she knows – and paints – Southampton well, and loves sharing this, as well as her extensive knowledge of the Great Masters, in her increasingly popular workshops.
Hannelore Fulford
Hannelore Fulford seeks the road less travelled. A childhood spent in the Austrian Alps instilled in her an intense love and respect for the natural world. An avid hiker and herbalist, she enjoys using her knowledge in the savory dishes she creates in her cozy kitchen. Gourmet food is not only a passion, but also a way of life for Hannelore and her family of inn keepers and restaurateurs. In between marketing her own take -home gourmet meals, managing a bed and breakfast, cooking for a wilderness touring company and travelling the world, she has found the perfect home base in Southampton.
D.D. Gadjanski
An honours graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, AOCAD, TWS. She lives and maintains a studio in Richmond Hill and conducts workshops for various art organizations and corporations in Southern Ontario. She paints and teaches in various media, with emphasis on a harmonious colour palette to express situation, mood and movement in a painting. Never hesitant to try new venues of expression, she encourages workshop participants to do the same, as well as guiding them to develop their individual style. Didi has exhibited in over one hundred group shows and over thirty solo shows in the last twenty years. Her paintings are in corporate and private collections in 15 countries around the world.
BrendaLee Garratt
BrendaLee Garratt graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1993 specializing in drawing and painting. She has continued her studies in plein air watercolour painting, Chinese brush painting wood carving and stone carving through numerous colleges and private lessons. BrendaLee teaches adults and children and encourages them through exploration, observation and individual growth to find their own pathway to express themselves through art.
Jane Geard
Jane is a nature lover who is also a painter, and sensitive to how the light filters through landscape to create inspirational patterns and shape visions. Jane creates her art using collage, printmaking, and the organic materials and images she finds in nature. She has expanded her knowledge through attending a wide variety of workshops and courses. An elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists, the Society of Canadian Artists and the Colour and Form Society, she has exhibited in many juried shows, and has won numerous awards.
Alan Glicksman
Alan Glicksman has been painting since 1975. His expressive visual vocabulary and highly praised works appear in many collections around the world, including Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound. Alan’s paintings consist of brightly coloured figures and animals that appear totemic and childlike. Glicksman studied in Toronto and New York City at the Ontario College of Art and Design, University of Guelph and completed a graduate degree at OISE/ U of T in Child Studies. Presently, he lives and works in Owen Sound.
Michael Goodwin
Michael is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and College of Education. He began working at Stratford and went on to become a scenic artist in Canadian theatre. He has taught and worked with school boards as artist-in-residence. As a longtime Southampton resident he finally gave in to the lure of the beach and now works in and teaches the art of driftwood sculpture.
Mike Grace
Mike is a master teacher of improvisation, and a longtime Southampton summer resident. Director of the Community High School jazz programme in Ann Arbor, Michigan, since 1980 he has turned it into one of improvisation exclusively — and his jazz ensembles have become famous both internationally and throughout the U.S. Now a professional jazz bassist, Mike has also played woodwinds with university, professional and military concert bands and symphony orchestras. For him, improvisation is still the most rewarding experience a musician and teacher can have.
Susan Gunter
Susan Gunter studied jewellery design and construction at George Brown and Mohawk colleges, she is also a graduate of the Gemological Institute of America. She enjoys learning about her craft and art in general and continues to take courses at the Dundas Valley School of Art and the Southampton Art School. She lives in Hamilton where she has her own workshop called Skywave Studios. Susan enjoys her summers in Southampton and is a member of the Shoreline Artists.
Andy Harasymczuk
Andy Harasymczuk has been teaching and motivating guitar students for more than 30 years. Each year, his students move on to colleges and universities -- Humber, York, and U of T. He also runs a successful music store/school, in Alliston called the Modern Conservatory of Music, and has presented world class musicians at a number of local venues for more than 20 years. As a performer, Andy has played with dozens of Canada’s top jazz musicians.
Ann Marie Harding
Ann Marie is passionate about the culinary arts. Although cooking is a personal hobby, it is one that she loves to share. She has attended well over a hundred cooking classes with well known chefs, including Southampton’s own Paul Johnston, and has taught classes in her London home in the past. We are delighted that she will be sharing her unique culinary talents from her Southampton kitchen this year.
Jennifer Hayden
Jennifer currently teaches Kindergarten and Physical Education for the Toronto District School Board. She is an animal and nature lover and has a major green thumb. Jennifer is a nurturing teacher who creates a positive learning environment for students of all ages. She enjoys developing children's curiosity for art by providing them opportunities to explore with a wide variety of materials.
Nan Hogg
Nan has been teaching the joys of painting in classrooms and in her studio for more than 30 years with a gentle approach that quickly puts participants at ease. She is a graduate in Fine Art from the University of Guelph and holds an Ontario Teachers’ Certificate. Her own art work ranges from carefully drawn watercolours to very large oil paintings to more expressive acrylics, but buildings remain her favourite subject.
Stephen James
From Dundas, Ontario, Stephen is the drummer for the Stardust Big Band, and was percussion instructor at the Southampton Summer Music Camp for eight years. Steve started off teaching grades 6 to 8 instrumental music in Kincardine; currently he’s teaching a new instrumental music programme in Dundas, and also directing the Hamilton All-Star Jazz Band. His love of music and his versatility in performing on drums in every possible style have been proven throughout his career.
Peri Jolley
Peri is a painter and printmaker who works in watercolour, inks, oils, acrylics, and mixed media, as well as in hand-dyed silks, in a range of styles from realism to abstraction. Peri was elected to the Society of Canadian Artists in 1987 and is an active member of a number of arts organizations. She has exhibited in many locations, including the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Gallery of Peel-Brampton, Thames Gallery-Chatham Cultural Centre and the John Black Aird Gallery-Toronto. Peri’s work is included in many private and corporate collections. A graduate of the Sheridan College Creative and Visual Arts programme, she also has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Windsor. A longtime Southampton summer resident, Peri teaches workshops in Oakville, Mississauga, Dundas, Hamilton and Southampton.
Valerie Kent
Valerie is a long time teacher who holds a B.Ed., B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees. She is President of the Richmond Hill Group of Artists, and is an active member of numerous art organizations, including the Federation of Canadian Artists, Toronto Watercolour Society, Society of York Region Artists, the Arts and Letters Club and the Scarborough Arts Council. Her work is collected nationally and internationally. She also writes workshop articles for the Watercolour Gazette and is Canadian Regional Editor of the Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.
Karen Kesteloot
Karen is a student-focused instructor with more than eight years of combined experience in teaching children and adults in college level and interest art courses. Karen has received training in learner-centered educational practices from Sheridan College. She has a Diploma of Interior Design and a Degree in Fine Art. Karen delights in creating a positive environment where her students can flourish as unique individuals. She believes in the healing power of the creative spirit.
Karen Kochany
Karen has been creating art in one form or another since her first “gallery showing” at age eight when her works were pinned to a bed sheet in the front hall. She has a background in psychology and interior design and has studied art in a variety of media including textiles, fashion illustration, painting, drawing, photography, and sumi-e and ikebana while living in Japan. She is currently at Gallery Stratford where she teaches children’s art classes, school workshops and vacation day-programs. She loves working with the creative energy which all children have and is happy to encourage them to create their own “bed sheet galleries.”
Stephen Lewis
Stephen is a professional sculptor based in Guelph whose work, while primarily welded steel, includes illustrations in ink, and graphics. A former art consultant for the Wellington County Board of Education, he has an extensive background teaching all ages, in workshops and schools across Canada and Europe. A much in demand art educator who enjoys teaching children as well as adults, he has been teaching adult and children’s classes in Southampton for 13 years.
Bill Loney
Bill’s lifelong enthusiasm for nature, art and gardening culminated in the creation of Keppel Croft Gardens at Big Bay on Georgian Bay when he retired from teaching. The gardens gave him every possible opportunity to develop skills beyond simply nurturing plants. The need for unique focal points in landscaping different areas inspired him to create his own, using a variety of mediums – and he delights in discussing the aesthetic qualities of garden art and its proper placement. Bill gives workshops to garden enthusiasts at Keppel Croft, has taught garden design in Owen Sound, and has demonstrated at the Owen Sound Summerfolk Festival.
Ruth Loucks
Ruth began her art-teaching career in Australia in 1980, where she taught students in rural and city environments, including a remote aboriginal Outback community. Ruth came to Canada on an international teaching exchange in 1987 – and stayed, teaching art at Walkerton District Secondary School, Chesley District High School, and is currently at the Arran Tara Elementary School. Over the past few years, she has conducted workshops on approaches to teaching art at the elementary level for the Bluewater District School Board and comes to us with a wealth of knowledge and experience.
Kai-Liis McInnes
Kai-Liis is a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Society of Canadian Artists, the Toronto Watercolour Society and the Colour and Form Society. She has been painting and teaching for more than 20 years and has an expanding and enthusiastic following. Her watercolours have been exhibited in Canada, the U.S., and her birthplace, Estonia, and have won several awards. From her home in the Mulmur Hills she paints her favourite subjects: flowers, landscapes, historic buildings, children, and animals: she even owns (and paints) a llama!
Cindy McKenna
Cindy is an acrylic painter whose faith is at the root of each image she produces. The spiritual nature of her work cannot be ignored. Her love for children and years of experience in both group and individual art instruction has produced a fun teaching style that allows each child to develop in ways they feel comfortable. Children blossom in the encouraging classroom environment Cindy creates.
John McLelland
John hails from Guelph, Ontario and is the pianist for the Stardust Big Band. He also performs with the 40-piece Windjammer jazz/classical orchestra, with Phoenix Jazz, his own quartet, and solo. With a Bachelor of Music and one in Education from Western, he studied jazz in the summers at the University of Toronto and at the Banff School of Fine Art with such notables as Phil Nimmons, Pat LaBarbera, and Ed Bickert. John has performed with Rob McConnell, Rick Wilkins, Peter Appleyard and Shirley Eikhardt, and cites as principal influences Thelonius Monk, Jay Oliver and Chick Corea. His high-school jazz ensembles have performed often at MusicFest Canada, attaining the Gold standard.
Margot Miller
Margot has taught at Sheridan College, St. Lawrence College, Queen’s University and Sir Sandford Fleming College. She is an Honour Graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and the Ecotourism Management Programme, Fleming College. She worked in the textile design industry in India and has traveled extensively in India and Asia, documenting traditional textile techniques. Currently she teaches and operates her own textile studio and shop in the village of Rockport. She is a recipient of a Design Canada Award and has exhibited at numerous galleries including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Film Board of Canada and the Ontario Craft Council. Her passion is a dedication to preserving our natural and cultural resources. Margot is a board member of the Leeds Stewardship Council and the Algonquin to Adirondack Conservation Association.
Michelle Minke
Michelle grew up in Port Elgin and now teaches art at Bruce Peninsula District School in Lion’s Head. She has also taught many summer art classes over the years. She now spends much of her spare time creating art with her two daughters. Her favourite mediums include clay, printmaking and batik. Michelle lives with her husband and children in Wiarton.
Tia Mushka
Tia is a teacher, artist and stone carver from Bruce County. Her enchantment with stone springs from a love of time, history, light, and natural materials. Seed pods, fruit, leaves and historical ornamentation are all sources of inspiration. Both learning and teaching are passions of hers. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and has studied in Utah and Vancouver and learned to carve stone in Pietrasanta, Italy. She has exhibited in Ontario, British Columbia and the United States.
Andres Musta
Andres is a teacher with the Durham District School Board, and is known for his colourful chalkboard drawings and spray-painted murals. He currently teaches grade 7 and 8 Art in Oshawa. He is also a trained architect, Waldorf method teacher, musician, amateur historian and art tutor. He lives with his wife Becky, their two children, and several hundred birds, along the gentle shores of Lake Scugog.
Jane Nielsen
Jane was introduced to a group of stained glass artists while taking art classes at Seneca College in 1988. After training with them for two years, she started her own business, Nielsen’s Art of Glass. Jane’s work has been featured in many galleries and gift shops including: the Art Gallery of Ontario, McMichael Art Gallery, Artistic Revival and, of course, the Southampton Art School Gallery. She has taught kids art for the York Region Board of Education and the Salvation Army’s camping program in Jackson’s Point.
Jen O’Reilly
Jen is a graduate of the Humber College School of Comedy Writing and Performance. She has appeared on Evening at the Improv, and has taught workshops at Second City as well. Jen has been teaching photography at Georgian and Mohawk Colleges for more than 13 years; she is the director of the Arts Warehouse in Port Elgin, where she conducts workshops in digital, landscape, nature and wedding photography, comedy and improv.
Cynthia Porter
Cynthia has been working as a professional artist for more than 20 years. Her work has been exhibited extensively and is in numerous collections in Canada and overseas. Cynthia has a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts and Women Studies from University of Western Ontario, a Fine Arts Diploma from Georgian College School of Visual Arts & Design, and a Teacher’s Diploma from Wellington Polytechnic Institute in New Zealand.
Douglas Purdon
Douglas works in oils, acrylics and watercolour — and teaches them all. A graduate of OCAD, an active member of the Society of Canadian Artists and Toronto Arts and Letters Club, he exhibits regularly in galleries in Toronto, Tweed, Scotland, and the U.S. As well, he is the Educational Adviser for Canada for Winsor & Newton art supplies. Author of the best-selling Colour Secrets for Glowing Oil Paintings (North Light Books), Doug’s work is included in major corporate collections. Doug recently captured the top U.S. marine art prize for his oil painting, Tugboat Alley, at the 26th Annual Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, International Marine Art Exhibition.
Stephanie Rayner
Stephanie is one of Canada’s best-known printmakers and conceptual artists. She believes that art and the human spirit are indivisible. A graduate of Ryerson, past vice-president of Open Studio in Toronto, she has exhibited and taught extensively. For the past several years she has been lecturing with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Spirituality in the U.S. and Africa on the importance of nourishing the spirit. With often-unexpected results in her students’ work her workshops are noted for changing more than one artist’s direction and style.
Peter John Reid
Peter John Reid paints in acrylics with a passion for colour and texture. Peter’s canvases have an abstract quality that is balanced with a connection or representation to the natural world where he finds inspiration in the fleeting moments of spectacular lighting and intimate vantage points. Peter resides in Grey County.
Anne Renouf
Anne Renouf studied Fine Art at the University of Toronto, specializing in drawing, painting and printmaking. After moving to Peterborough in 1997, Anne started work in her Hunter Street studio; it was there that her work as a professional artist really began. Renouf’s work concentrates on the human condition and exploring a sense of place. Anne and her partner live on 90 acres east of Peterborough surrounded by cedar and maple woods, fields and wetlands where they enjoy rambling with their black lab, Chester.
Carolyn Riddell
Carolyn completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Guelph where she specialized in printmaking and painting. She currently maintains a printmaking and painting studio in Guelph. She recently took a week long private workshop in Fabriano, Italy where she made 100% cotton paper in an 800 year old studio! Her studio is the home of her art production as well as a shared etching press space and teaching facility. She teaches printmaking at the University of Waterloo/Cambridge Library and Gallery joint studio program. Carolyn has exhibited her work extensively and her work is presented in public, private and corporate collections in North America and Europe.
Jenni-Lynn Schiestel
Jenni-Lynn Schiestel is an elementary school teacher whose major passion is teaching visual art and instilling enthusiasm for art in children. She loves how ideas for children’s -- and her own -- art come to her each day: from a scenic walk, to a trip to the grocery store. In her lessons, she tends to throw in a little music, drama or dance to get the artistic inspiration rolling. Among her other artistic pursuits, she recently started her own jewellery business, designing and creating unique pieces of jewellery from beads, chain and found items.
Elke Scholz
Elke was born in Koln, Germany, and has spent over twenty-five years painting, teaching fine arts and managing her successful art studio in Bracebridge , Ontario . She has won many awards and recognition for her rich, dynamic fine oil and watercolour paintings. She has led many retreats and workshops for corporations, galleries, groups, the Board of Education and, most recently, in France and Portugal. Elke’s work and articles have been published in over twelve national magazines and books as well as her own award winning book, “Loving Your Life: becoming who you are and loving it through passionate creative living.” She believes that through the arts we can clearly access our true potential.
Beverley Smith
Beverley has been a professional artist since graduating from Sheridan College School of Design and a weaving college in Stockholm, Sweden in the early 70’s. She is well known for her textile art, murals, maps and whimsical illustrations of the Beaver Valley area since moving there from Toronto in the 80’s. She started weaving with beads a number of years ago. This led to her opening a shop (Holy Crow Beads) and teaching studio in her Beaver Valley home. Beverley exhibits locally, nationally and internationally.
Paul Smutylo
Paul Smutylo returned home to Owen Sound 5 years ago to pursue his career as an artist and an educator. Although his work reflects many different mediums and subject matter, he considers himself primarily a portrait artist, but often finds himself returning to the subjects that occupied his youth – sports and super heroes
Keith Stelling
Keith has been painting and drawing since the age of thirteen and at fifteen held his first one man show in a Hamilton library. Most recently, his paintings were chosen along with those of twelve other artists from across Canada to represent contemporary Canadian art at an exhibition called “Crossing Borders” in Lockport, New York. Keith is an experienced teacher who nurtures the unique healing journey of every student. He paints and lives in a farmhouse in Arran Township near David Milne’s birthplace.
Mark Thurman
Mark is a professional author and illustrator noted for co-creating the Mighty Mites comic strip in OWL Magazine – 154 episodes. He graduated from the Central Tech Fine Art Program in Toronto, has illustrated and designed more than 40 books, and is the author of 15 of these. His time is divided between living near Owen Sound and in Toronto.
Carol Vaughan
Carol Vaughan has been involved in theatre for many years and was a director of Theatre Collingwood, producing shows such as The Wizard of Oz inolving more than 100 adults and children. After a five-year stay in Thunder Bay she has returned to Southampton with two new classes for children. Her former students here are thrilled to have her back and the word is that youngsters taking Carol's classes will have a good deal of fun.
Paul Villani
Paul was influenced early in life by ecclesiastical stained glass. Light and the glass through which the world is made visible fascinate him. Never forgetting the dynamic of daylight art, Paul rekindled that love with several courses in stained glass; since his recent retirement from teaching he has been able to devote more time to his art. In addition to his work on display at the Southampton Art School Gallery, a number of his commissioned pieces are located in Grey and Bruce Counties.
Telfer Wegg
Telfer is a dedicated outdoor photographer based in Neustadt with an extensive photo collection from 59 countries – and of the secret corners of Bruce and Grey counties. In fact, he has self-published three books (as well as CDs of his photographs) about the history and landscape of these counties. His photos have appeared in numerous magazines and calendars, and are available at selected galleries and shops across Southwestern Ontario.
Tanya Weichel
Tanya studied Fine Arts and Graphic Design at George Brown College. She was the Gallery Co-ordinator of the Southampton Art School during its formative years and also taught children’s art and Fair Isle knitting at that time. Tanya lives in Southampton where she works from her home “creating” when she can and more importantly raising a family! She particularly enjoys helping kids explore the creative world.
Beverley White
Bev fled to Port Elgin from Toronto 14 years ago. An artist and photographer, Bev has been quilting since 1990, when she was first attracted to traditional forms of the craft. In recent years, she has been focusing on art quilts -- which use contemporary materials, methods and paints to produce true works of fabric art. Bev has taken many courses in all aspects of quilting, including a workshop with Judith Montano, probably the best-known expert (and writer) on the Victorian crazy quilt revival. She is also in demand as curator and organizer for juried exhibitions of fabric art.
Julia White
Julia White is a visual artist from Walters Falls. A mother herself, Julia brings her experience with children’s innate sense of wonder and celebrates it in her enchanting workshops. She designs 'creative journeying' workshops for all ages, which initiate a spirit of play and self-discovery through making art. Julia incorporates sound, movement and storytelling into these classes designed to inspire deep curiosity.