MEET OUR TALENTED MAKERS FOR 2020
Betty Matthews
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Betty Matthews is an artist living in Gananoque Ontario. She works in watercolour, acrylic and acrylic collage. Betty believes that art plays an important part in everyone's life, whether as a hands-on approach, or simply for the sake of enjoyment. There are many different forms of art - including visual - and she is very happy to be a part of that world.
Pamela Prince
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Pamela Prince is a jewelry artisan who originally created unique pieces only for family and friends. She has since extended this passion for working with metal wire and gemstones to custom work and exclusive shows such as “BTR”.
Maureen McDonald
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Maureen McDonald began creating pebble art images as gifts for friends and family members, but soon found herself busy filling orders for others. She loves the simplicity of design enforced by this medium, and is thrilled to find a perfect piece of beach glass that evokes the wind lifting a bride’s veil, or two pebbles that fit together perfectly to form a couple in a loving embrace.
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Martha Stroud
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Martha Stroud tries to capture scenes and images that brought her joy in the moment, in the hope that other people will find the same joy.
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John Sorensen
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John Sorensen's background as an architectural antique dealer and passion for ballroom dancing influence his choice of subject matter. He uses the rich warm colours and texture obtained from traditional oil paint to interpret his two primary interests – old room interiors and “ordinary” people dancing or just sharing a quiet moment together.
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Kevin Juckers
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Woodsparrow Fine Furniture and Design was established in April 2013 by Kevin Juckers. The company focuses on solid woodworking for the home, including items such as tables, dressers, beds, and wardrobes as well as custom interior doors and stairs. Woodsparrow also constructs kitchen cabinets and furniture and replicates and restores parts of furniture if they are missing or damaged. Kevin Juckers developed a passion for woodworking at a young age. During secondary school he participated in all of the wood shop classes and was able to work alongside Canadian prolific writer, speaker, and geographer, Dr. James Raffan, to restore a 13 foot canvas canoe. He graduated as an honours student from both Algonquin College’s Cabinetmaking and Furniture Technician Program in 2009 and Carpentry and Millwork – Heritage Program in 2011. Upon graduation he worked for a few professors from Algonquin College and assisted in building new cabinets for the wood shop in the newly located Algonquin College Perth campus. He furthered his skills by attending the “Studio Veneering Techniques” course with Adrian Ferrazzutti at Rosewood Studio. At present he continues to work on developing his business in the beautiful 1000 Islands Region.
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Kitty Kelly
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Kitty Kelly's passion is painting - she wants to share what she sees and feels by putting it onto canvas with the hope that the viewer experiences those senses as well.
Self taught, Kitty has always been interested in the world of art and is now immersed full time in painting. Her favourite medium is acrylic, however, oil & watercolour are sometimes used. She was born in Toronto, Ontario & has lived in Australia, Victoria, B.C., P.E.I and now resides in Brockville, Ontario.
Self taught, Kitty has always been interested in the world of art and is now immersed full time in painting. Her favourite medium is acrylic, however, oil & watercolour are sometimes used. She was born in Toronto, Ontario & has lived in Australia, Victoria, B.C., P.E.I and now resides in Brockville, Ontario.
Lea Hamblett
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The creative spirit behind The Artful Dragon Studio is Lea Hamblett, who has been creating artwork using multi-media applications since 1984. Lea has continued to explore multi-media art over the years and has created jewelry and art using Fine Silver, Polymer Clay, gemstones and fused glass. The most recent Collections from the Artful Dragon Studio include Wire Weaving - using Copper Wire and gemstones, leather cuff bracelets and pendants - which sometimes include a cut metal scene or gemstones. The Cobraal Collection uses Copper, Brass and Aluminium to create beautiful pendants, some even move! The MetalScapes Collection incorporates cut metal 3D scenes with Plexiglass sheets and alcohol ink accents. The TileScapes Collection uses a ceramic tile as a base for Alcohol Ink and then a cut metal scene completes the picture.
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Margot Miller
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Margot Miller 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 University 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 and she is a past board member of the Leeds Stewardship Council and the Algonquin to Adirondack Conservation Association. She is presently a member of the Thousand Islands Residents Association and a board member of the Thousand Islands Arts Centre, Home of the Handweaving Museum, in Clayton, N.Y. She has been involved in the Dry Stone Wall Across Canada Association and leads tours to visit dry stone structures in various countries. |
Sue Steffes
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Sue Steffes is a felt maker who uses the ancient craft to create art pieces and functional decor. She employs a wet felt method adding texture and detail through needle felting, hand embroidery and free motion machine stitching. Growing up on the prairies of Alberta has provided plenty of inspiration, her work tending to revolve around big skies and vast landscapes. The rock, lakes, forests and wildlife of Ontario also inform and inspire her work.
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Margaret McLauchlan was born in Baker Lake, Nunavut and spent her childhood in small remote communities all over the Canadian Arctic. Although she has lived in Kingston for many years she continue to travel "north of ordinary” as often as possible. Those wide open spaces where you can see forever are exquisitely beautiful and haunt her soul.
She is playing with the new Tri-Art line of liquid glass acrylic paints.and loves the depth, the layerings and movement that these paints produce. She paints on the floor so she is looking at the support from above, as if she is in a small plane flying over the masses of waterways and ice and tundra in the north. All her paintings are imaginary abstract works anchored with ice and shades of blue. |
Margaret McLauchlan
ARTIST
Kingston ON
ARTIST
Kingston ON
