Artway Invitational - Past Exhibits

Stephanie enjoys working in a variety of media, including pencil, coloured pencil, acrylics, watercolours, printmaking, mixed media, and digital art.  In addition to creating works of realism and fanciful illustrations, She likes to create art that straddles the worlds of digital design and traditional media.  This collection of animal themed artwork represents Stephanie’s varied, lighthearted, work.

Stephanie attended Visual Arts Brampton in her teens, earning two youth awards.  After graduating with distinction from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Studio Art and Art History, she returned to VAB as an adult member, board member, instructor, and session facilitator with a passion to encourage creativity in others.  Stephanie has exhibited artwork in the Zavitz Gallery at the UofG, Brampton’s Rose Theatre & City Hall, Artway Gallery, The Ontario Legislature, and the Canadian National Exhibition. 

Artwork from Visual Arts Brampton members, featuring: Aditi Sangwan, Chris McGlynn, Colleen Dee, Erin Hansen, Helen Duplassie, Hye Jung, M. B. Dlubak, Mary Jones, Maureen McLellan, Merlene Boyce, Priyanka Singh & Stephanie Czolij.

Connie Munson’s Studio By Design is host of the annual themed exhibit, FORMS, FACES & SPACES, figuratively speaking! It hung in May 2023 at two approved satellite sites with the Scotiabank CONTACT Festival, the largest photography event in the world.

Behind the scenes with ... THIS CONTACT! is a three month bonus tour of the winners’ pieces, a selection of ecmunson’s candid portraiture from her analogue collection, and the back stories on community supporters for the May show.

Munson is active in several arts organizations, a passionate photographer with a recent solo show at the Millcroft Inn & Spa, a co-gallerist with pop-up galleries, and co-organizer of The ARTISTS Festival in 2018.

Showing regularly in southern Ontario galleries, her work also hangs in clinics, offices, libraries, and the Dufferin Board of Trade. Most notable are two pieces which recently hung in the juried shows at the Ontario Legislative Assembly, and placing third with her piece, Tangled Reflections, in a show at the McMichael Gallery. studiobydesign.ca

Born in 1954, Tom attended the former Ontario College of Art from 1972-74. Today the institute is known as O.C.A.D. to fellow Torontonians but in the wider world it is known as Ontario College of Art & Design.

Tom studied drawing, oil painting and printmaking while mastering woodcuts and silk-screening. In his later years he returned to his love of painting. As an avid cyclist the majority of his paintings reflect his love of landscape vistas which are his touchstones. A touch of history or even early urbanism can be seen in all of his pieces and enjoyed by all.

Filomena Kandola has been making art for as long as she can remember. From early grade school it was her favourite pastime and remained a passion of hers until college and after. She studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art & Design with a specialization in drawing and painting. She has always been moved by the impressionists and expressionists, as well as the Group of Seven painters and enjoys painting in oil and soft pastel to this day. Her favourite subjects to render are often the landscapes around her where she grew up and still lives in Woodbridge, Ontario. She is also inspired by the Canadian landscape coast to coast. These oil paintings depict a Newfoundland coastal landscape, Algonquin in autumn and the Kortright Centre, the McMichael Art Gallery grounds and a neighboring farm in the Woodbridge area.