Artway Invitational - Past Exhibits

Ushma Rathi, a self-taught artist from India, is currently in Canada pursuing her studies in Accounting. Though she is an accountant by profession, she has always been fond of art. She has received immense support from her art teacher and family, which encouraged her to enhance her art skills further. Most of Ushma’s art is influenced by what speaks to her. Nature, birds, colors, techniques or other artist’s work. Furthermore, she works on her art piece until she is fully satisfied.

Throughout her art career, she has worked with various mediums such as pencil, crayons, markers, acrylics and watercolors. All her recent work is based on acrylics. She enjoys learning different techniques from other artists and integrating those with her own style of work. Ushma shares valuable art tips on social media and blogs. She also teaches art individually and in classes with the Michaels art store. She has had opportunities to display her art in various exhibitions organized by VASA, VAB and other organizations.

Abiola is new to Canada and has already embraced the arts and culture life in Peel. His modern art studies of persons is truly imaginative as he brings to life his subjects not only through colour but through texture as well. His massive portraits are impressive.

Being an artist imbued with interpersonal skills, Biola is hardworking, effective, efficient, committed and dedicated with distinct talents as creative thinker. His passion lies in being creative and achieving his desired goals or designs in sculpting and painting. Biola’s creativity is brought about the brain behind a technique called “OPO”, meaning Pillar in the Yoruba dialect of South Western Nigeria. You can follow Biola on Instagram at abiolaidowuart.

Brampton Caledon Community Living Participation Supports offers a range and variety of activities, experiences, and opportunities for adults with a developmental disability. From volunteer work and community outings to arts and crafts and educational activities, Community Participation Supports are designed to provide adults with meaningful experiences that promote their personal interests, skills, growth and development, and participation in the community.

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Reema Chopra is an art promoter, mentor, advocate and a professionally trained Canadian Contemporary Artist. Reema provides career advice, coaching, writing services, promotion, and digital marketing strategies for artists from beginners to advanced. She is a founder of White Antelope, a branding and marketing agency located in Toronto, Canada.

Reema brings her vast knowledge and experience in advertising, art, antiques, graphic design, marketing, events and promotions, along with an international network of contacts to each of her clients. She is committed to the success each client entrusts her to bring to their efforts. She is one of the upcoming new contemporary artists to emerge out of the Canadian landscape in the last decade.

Reema Chopra is a trained Graphic Designer, Contemporary Visual Artist, Digital Marketer and a certified Usui Reiki Master who grew up chanting mantras, painting modern art and exploring the science of Ayurveda. Her passion for art began at a very young age. As a child she was surrounded by art and music, along with the beauty of the Indian landscape, inspiring her interest in fine arts and graphic design. As a teenager, she was deeply inspired by her grandfather who introduced her to Ayurveda, Eastern Art, and Spirituality.

After graduating from Visual Communications, followed by Post graduation in Marketing and Public Relations from the University of Mumbai, India, she pursued her career as a Creative Art Director for some of the top advertising agencies, fortune 500 companies, design studios, and print publications. She moved to Toronto, Ontario in the 1990s, and completed her studies in Graphic and Web Design from George Brown College and Certificate in Digital Marketing from the University of Toronto. Her versatile spirit has led her to incorporate many different styles and mediums into her works including acrylic colours, watercolors, digital art, pastels, and inks. She is a Founder of White Antelope, a Canadian company specializing in Diversity and Digital Marketing Management and Sohum Healing Arts Centre serving a diverse range of Canadian audiences.

Reema's distinctive mark is seen in her ability to lay down "multi-layered coats of vibrant paint spread over a canvas with vigorous and bold brushstrokes. Reema’s entire body of work addresses taboo and controversial issues related to fundamental human experiences such as birth, death, and aspects of consciousness. Primarily influenced by the painters like Rembrandt and Monet helped place her work in direct conflict with the abstraction and conceptual art. Some of her favorite artists include works from Saya Woolfalk and Georgia O’Keeffe as well as work from a broad range of Canadian photographers. Motivated and inspired by therapeutic art classes she facilitated at Ontario Shores of Mental Health in Whitby, Ontario, and Welcome Immigrant Center in Ajax Ontario, She quickly developed a deep passion for modalities of art therapies used for healing trauma, depression, PTSD, Dementia and many more. Reema’s art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Reema reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures, and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous.

She is devoted to the integrative field of Energy Medicine, treating a multitude of chronic and acute conditions. She is a philosopher at heart assisting individuals to heal on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. She has a passion for the arts, and actively supports local arts and community organisations in Durham Ontario region, having served as a Board member for an independent theater company Ajax Community Theater and a local art gallery Station Gallery in Whitby, Ontario and Non-profit Girls Inc Durham. She works with organisations who want to tap into the sentiments of their key stakeholder audiences in sustainable ways and is very keen on working with some great projects which are revenue generating for any community.

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Brampton based artist, Kelly Couperthwaite, a full-time graphic designer and an avid home baker recently decided to jump back into the world of fine art in 2018. After her daughter moved off to college with some extra time on her hands, she picked up her art supplies after a long hiatus and began exploring with a medium new to her called Alcohol Ink. The fluid movement and vibrant colours grabbed her attention and she was hooked.

Kelly started exploring with modern designs that this liquid medium creates on Yupo Paper and Ceramic surfaces favouring abstract floral designs, monotone colour pallets and embracing white space. Whether her pieces are framed for home decor, a useful set of drink coasters or a unique greeting card, the vibrant colours bring a brightness to any home.

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