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Janice Balesic |
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Janice Balesic is an art teacher for the Peel Board of Education. Her work was published in the Visual Arts Brampton Millenium Project, the ABC Fun Things Book. She was once on the Visual Arts Brampton Board of Directors. |
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Shabana Bhutta |
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Artist, school teacher |
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A school teacher in Brampton, Shabana enjoys doing artwork on her spare time at home and at the studio. She exhibited in The First Annual Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show. |
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Sean Cassidy |
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Award-winning writer and illustrator |
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His original illustrations were displayed at the Golden Pheasant Gallery exhibit "Gummytoes: The Art of Sean Cassidy". His books include:
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Ed Clark |
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Ed Clark has painted on and off for a number of years, starting in oils and then turning to watercolours. He became more involved and enthuastic when he took a number of watercolour artist Jack Reid and went on group painting trips with him to Northern England and Newfoundland. He is a member of the Mississauga Watercolour Society and the Mississauga Art Society and exhibits in their annual Spring and Fall shows at the Springbank Art Centre. Ed has also exhibited at other shows organized by the Mississauga Arts Council and regularly enters juried shows. Ed's medium has been been watercolours for over ten years and he paints landscapes, seascapes, street scenes and snow scenes. He loves the outdoors and is an avid cross-country skier, hiker and canoeist, and many of his paintings are inspired by scenes from these activities. |
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Don Collins |
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Photographer |
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Don Collins lives in Bolton, Ontario and has been taking photographics since his days in public school. Now retired from teaching, he has been focusing on 35mm and digital photography. His artistic skills in composition, fine arts and a keen eye are evident in his sensitive and carefully composed pictures. Collins exhibited in the 2005 Artway Shoppers World show A Place to Live, A Place to Grow. |
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eepy post |
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Mail artist |
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eepy post is a mail artist from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. eepy won the Creative Achievement Hermes Award in the first annual Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show. |
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Bruce Geldart |
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As a graduate of California's world-renowned Brooks Institute of Photographic Art and Science, Bruce Geldart developed a career in illustrative Advertising Photography in Toronto from the mid-1970s. This laid the foundation to adopt the paint brush and discover transparent watercolour as a medium that characteristically delivers a brilliance of colour that sets it apart from other mediums. Bruce typically paints in a realistic style, depicting diverse subject matter dealing with landscapes, still life and florals. As a keen outdoors person, Bruce can often be found with fly rod in hand, learning and observing nature's ever-changing character. Over the past few years, Bruce has been fortunate to study with internationally famous watercolour artist Zoltan Szabvo, along with highly-acclaimed Canadian artists, Jack Reid and Brigitte Schreyer. |
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Muriel Gray |
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Muriel is one of only seven people to ever win the Visual Arts Brampton President's Award. In 2001, Muriel was presented with the group's highest honour, after helping to jury images at the first Images on Paper- Youth Juried Art Show. |
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Adrienne Houston |
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Adrienne won first place in the Visual Arts Brampton Images on Paper Juried Art Show. |
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2001- Images on Paper- Juried Art Show,
Artway Exhibit Space, Bramalea City Centre, Brampton. Winner of
gold award. ARTICLES The Brampton Guardian: Here
comes the sun! |
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Kim Lee Kho |
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Graphic designer |
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Graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Kho is currently on display in the exhibit Wednesday's Work at the Neilson Park Creative Centre. |
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Anita Kumar |
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Sculptor, artist, Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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Born in Nova Scotia, then raised in Mississauga and India, in the foot of the Himalayas, Anita says that through hard work, she became determined and open-minded. Anita completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Government College for Arts – Chandigarh, one of India's Top 5 professional fine arts colleges. Internationally recognised, the College attracts students from across Europe and Asia. In May of 2004 she moved to Wales, United Kingdom, where she resided for half a year. She was accepted in the Masters of Fine Arts at the Canterbury campus of Kent Institute of Art and Design, but did not enroll due to lack of funds. At that point, Anita moved back to Canada to start her arts career. Her prefered working mediums are oil painting, dry and oil pastels, charcoal, coloured pencil and watercolour. She primarily uses clay, sponge, fiber glass and plaster of paris to create sculptures. Anita's white marble sculpture "Baby on a Leaf" is in the collection of GCA India, and various others are in private collections. Anita is also a poet and aspiring novelist. Recently she completed a collection of 180 poems. She is a member of both Visual Arts Brampton and the South Asian Actors Association. INSTRUCTING Bryntirion Comprehensive School,
Bridgend, Wales (June 2004) Privately (April – May
2004) Government College of Art, India
(September 2003) St. Annes Convent, Chd., India
(October 1999) EXHIBITS Fabricland, Bramalea City Centre,
Brampton, ON (March 2005 on) Artway Gallery, Brampton, ON
(February 2005 on) Government College of Art, India
(2000-2003) EDUCATION Anita has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts Sculpture, additional 1 year Foundation course in advertising, graphics and painting. She is proficient in many computer programs including 3D Studio Max, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Director, Morphing, Ani-magic gif and Adobe Illustrator. MEDIUMS Sculpture:
Clay, terracotta, wax, soap, sponge/foam (puppetry),
styrofoam, fiber glass, plaster of paris, portland cement,
wood-carving, marble-carving, bronze-casting, tin – foil,
jute rope, various metal wires and paper mache. |
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Simon Fraser MacDonald |
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Simon Fraser MacDonald is a self taught artist working in watercolour, oil pastel, soft pastel and acrylic. Raised on the Alberta prairies, this self-styled impressionist currently works from his studio in Brampton, Ontario. Over the years and miles, Simon has carried his sketch books, pencils and cameras to try to capture that unique view or perspective of simple things; the unique view.
Now a full time professional artist, he owns and operates simonfraserart, marketing watercolours and acrylics to corporations and private collectors. TO CONTACT Simon can be contacted through VAB, by phoning (905) 453-9142, or by e-mailing visualartsbrampton@gmail.com. Pictured above are "Aztec Wind in Pozos" and "Fishing Floats".
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Colin McClean |
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Cartoonist for Toronto's Share newspaper and the Ambassdor magazine |
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Colin reflected on his cartooning: My name is Colin McClean and I'm the creative energy behind Life's Lighter Side... (LLS) and Frankie comic strips. My comic strips strive to make us remove life's protective armour and look at ourselves through the various offbeat and “gee that reminds me of” characters and situations it portrays. “It all started with a crayon.” Ever since I can remember, a crayon (later a pencil) and a pad of paper have been my best companions and my readily available retreat. Drawing (what my parents once thought of as a nice distraction that would keep me out of their hair) became my passion. Better still, it became a constant source of comic relief for my friends, family, and co-workers. I complemented this natural desire with cartooning classes and a certificate program in graphic design from Centennial College.
LLS looks at common situations in the corporate world and in family life from my quirky perspective — a guy who voluntarily wore a tie at the age of four and dreamed of becoming a businessman. You've got to be careful what you wish for, it might come true! When I got my wish, I became even more inclined to look at the lighter side of life just to keep my sanity!
Frankie is a spin off of Life's Lighter Side... LLS had many zany personalities but no main character, until my baby girl was born. To put it simply, Frankie is a reflection of myself. He pretty much came into existence when I took seven months off work to stay home and raise my baby girl. My wife, on the other-hand, went back to work and I was forced to deal with a child who rarely slept (day or night). There were times when I felt aliens had abducted my wife and she was never going to return from work. This is where I came up with the idea of a male as a single parent. Usually when one mentions the idea of a single parent, we automatically think of a woman.
The Frankie comic strip strives to take it from a man's perspective in raising a child in the twenty-first century. As the saying goes “That which doesn't break you will only make you stronger.” Overall the whole experience has strengthen the bond between my daughter and me. As any artist will tell you, there has to be an outlet for one's wackiness — one of mine, and hopefully yours, is Frankie. Enjoy and stay on Life's Lighter Side... with Frankie!
TO CONTACT Colin can be contacted through e-mailing colin@llscartoons.com E-mail —
colin@llscartoons.com |
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Patience Morrisey |
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Professional printmaker, painter |
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Patience graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1948. She chooses materials that are close at hand, including found objects, newspaper, wood, and metal. The found objects are transformed with papier mache and paint into startling manifestations, each emerging from the artist's acknowledgment of the characters of her initial materials. Patience is one of Canada's foremost wood block printers. She has transformed the medium, by combining them with paint, drawing, and ink. She manipulates the surface to created mixed-media works in two and three dimensions. She even sees beyond their initial concepts, and incorporates the prints into collages and even sculpture. EXHIBITIONS She has had numerous solo shows across North America at Gallery at Fairways, Missisauga; the Burlington Art Centre; Sarasota Art Centre; the Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton. She has won numerous awards and prizes in regional exhibitions and has been a frequent participant in Visual Arts Mississauga Juried Show of Fine Arts, hosted by the Art Gallery of Mississauga. Her work has traveled to Japan as part of shows organized by the Art Gallery of Mississauga. She exhibited at our Artway Exhibit Space's Lasting Impressions 2003 printmaking exhibit. |
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Leo Salvador |
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Steve Wilson |
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A Visual Arts Brampton member living in nearby Huttonville, Steve Wilson’s passion is wildlife, though he likes a variety of subjects. Working with acrylics, his preferred medium for over 20 years, he occasionally experiments with mixed media.
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Read about more artists... VAB Artists' Guide |
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Artist
Many
early attempts were fed into the fireplace while some have
survived. Over the past few years, with the critical support of
his late, much loved wife Valerie, herself a world-class painter,
more works have gone into the portfolio and less into the
fireplace.
LLS
draws (yes, pun intended) its humour from the situations
themselves as well as the special attention I pay to the facial
expressions of the numerous characters that are portrayed. I
incorporate the multiethnic faces found in my community —
Toronto, Canada — one of the most culturally diversity
cities in the world where more than 80 languages are spoken.
Working and living in this cosmopolitan area, among its more than
two million inhabitants, I find that there is absolutely no
shortage of events and people to caricature.
Born
in Patience, Alberta, Patience Morrisey has always had an
interest in art, and credits her prairie roots for a great deal
of influence in her life. Her work has varied from fashion
illustration, to education, to library artist, and to children's
creative art and drawing.
Leo
was a VAB member from August 2002 to 2005.