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Art Gallery
ARTIST: Charmaine Watt
An exceptional Manitoban artist, well known for her sensational water colours and oils. Her art is on display at many government offices, medical clinics, private business and homes throughout Canada. Charmaine is also in great demand to teach watercolours, acrylics, pen/ink, oil any of the fine art mediums as well as soapstone carving, silk screening and folk art.
Charmaine has been instrumental in starting several successful art clubs in Manitoba such as Prairie Palette in Oak Bluff, Group Expressions in St. Vital and her newest venture St. James Fine Art.
ARTIST: Dawn France
ARTWORK: Prairie Meets Precambrian
As an artist, Dawn has a number of favorite mediums which include watercolors, acrylics, mixed media and pen/ink. Her style is impressionistic and abstract which reveals her sense of originality. Dawn has been a founding member of several new art clubs in Manitoba. To her credit, her creations hang in the homes of many across Canada and the United States.
ARTIST: Leona Brown
ARTWORK: Grand Sand (watercolour and Gesso with Grand Beach sand
Bio: Leona has walked the Great Wall of China, and snorkeled in the Grand Cenotes of Mexico. She has wept in the Gardens of Van Gogh in Arles France, and danced to Spanish guitars in Ronda, Southern Spain. Everywhere she goes she paints and experiences everything through the heart. This is evident in her passionate watercolours. She also passes this passion along to artists that have her as their mentor and teacher. Her work can also be seen on her web site www.leonabrown.com
ARTIST: Eugene Burchill
ARTWORK TITLE: Goldfish (Quilt, 57” X 45”)
BIO: Eugene Burchill (Chemistry professor, University of Manitoba, retired) was born and raised on a farm near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. Educated at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Leeds (England), he taught for six years at the University of Victoria and at the University of Manitoba for thirty-one years.
Eugene’s involvement with quilt design began with drafting templates and scaling patterns for his wife. This led him to designing patterns of his own. After retirement, he decided to try his hand at construction of quilts from these designs. A major influence in his designs has been the geometric studies of tessellation by the Dutch artist and print-maker, M.C. Escher.
Photographs of Eugene’s work may be seen at www.mts.net/~ceburch
ARTIST: Eleonore Esau
ARTWORK: Burg Katz (left)(oil on canvas, 22” x 24”) / Yummy Meadows (oil on canvas, 22” x 28”)
Eleonore has been awarded the People’s Choice Award at Manitoba Art Expo and has been featured in a number of solo exhibitions in Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg. She exhibited in two shows at “Art @ Governor’s” in the Governor’s mansion in Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island, British West Indies. Her work was chosen to be included in the Travelling Show of the Federation of Canadian Artists in Vancouver, and in the Travelling Show with the F.C.A. in Calgary, as well as in “Common Ground” Travelling Show sponsored in part by the Manitoba Society of Artists. Her work expresses her conviction that there is inherent beauty and worth in all creation, from the loftiest mountain peak to lowliest scrub bucket, if we make the effort to discover and understand it. Her wish is that through her painting she might convey to you, the viewer, in some small measure, the beauty of the Creator and the created that surrounds us wherever we go.
Eleonore is represented in Golden Cactus Gallery in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and at Pure Art Gallery in Georgetown, Grand Cayman. Her work can be found in corporate and private collections across western Canada, the US, Germany, Grand Cayman Island, Mexico, and the UK.
ARTIST: Rick Robinson
ARTWORK: Galaxy II (photography)
Rick Robinson is an award winning photographer with over thirty years experience. He has taken many courses over the years and has studied with the internationally acclaimed photographer Freeman Patterson. Rick’s images have been donated to several Manitoba charities for auction. His image entitled Galaxy II is from his Silica Galaxies series. Spectrum Images:(204)885-7844 email: rickrobinson2007@shaw.ca
ARTIST: Brij Khatter
ARTWORK: Spring Migration
Brij Khatter always had passion for Art. In 1993,she got the opportunity to bring this in practice. Brij’s interests in Art are varied. Her incentive comes from love of nature and its habitat.She has frequently entered her Art Work in juried shows and successfully won several awards.In particular notable is ,2002 Red River- Ex award for best in show. At present, Brij is active member of reputable Art groups such as Norman Art Group and Grenfell Art Group in Winnipeg. She displays her Art work at different venues and has sold number of her paintings. She is very much encouraged by the constant support and appreciation from her family and co-artists.
ARTIST: Patricia Eschuk
ARTWORK: Sunflowers
From a young age, Patricia Eschuk has been passionate about art, particularly drawing. She works with a variety of dry and wet mediums on paper and canvas. For the past few years her main focus has been drawing with charcoal and ink and water color painting. She has recently begun oil painting.
Mainly self taught throughout her life, she was driven by her simple love to create with a pencil or brush. In the past few years she has been studying privately with a few well known Manitoba artists and has attended numerous workshops in Manitoba and most recently in Saskatchewan. She has exhibited at the Manitoba Society of Artists Annual Juried show for the past two years. In 2008 she won first place for her charcoal drawing of sunflowers entitled ‘Rhythms’. This year she participated in the 8th Wave Artist’s Studio Tour at her summer home in Gimli and has also sold her work through the Fishfly Gallery in Winnipeg Beach. Contrasting studies from bold and bright to soft and sensitive her work explores the relationship of spaces created through line and form and demonstrates her love for movement. She prefers to work from real life subject matter and has a fondness for flowers especially sunflowers.
ARTIST: Lawrence Rich
ARTWORK: Vancouver Canucks Goalie – Roberto Luongo
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Lawrence Rich has seen his career move through more graphic based commercial projects to large scale fine art. His unique approach to a wide variety of styles and subject matter has led to an increasing demand for his work on both a local and national level. Currently he is exploring themes relating to jazz music, expressive semi abstract landscape, and his ever-evolving contemporary abstract. www.larryrich.com
ARTIST: Rodger Lourenzo
ARTWORK: Banana Bunch on Lace
Rodger Lourenzo is a Winnipeg Artist whose artwork is represented in a variety of media, but is best known for his striking watercolours. His work is representational and strives to transform the otherwise visually mundane, into something which gives the viewer pause. His work can be found in private collections across Canada and in Europe. rodgerlourenzo@hotmail.com
ARTIST: Jordan VanSewell
ARTWORK: Tiki Guy Lamp
The really great thing about being an artist is that you're never out of a job! I've been making this stuff for 25 years and it's never been anything but fun and profit. These images come from my head. A lot of the ideas began with my only real job to date - that of a brakeman on freight trains sitting in the cupola of a caboose. During that period (1970-1980) the railway and world really changed. Elements of my sculpture come from an idea, maybe a misconception, that the world was an easier, friendlier place.
I've interpreted this into the visions, figures, robots, lizards, dogs, the seemingly brain challenged human characters and the period cars, trucks, motorcycles and situations that they find themselves in. To my knowledge I breath life into things that don't exist in the real world. No need to get into the reason. I went to art school and all of that. Now the joy comes from standing at my workbench and turning a lump of clay into a very cool ceramic sculpture.
ARTIST: Mary Anne Rudy
ARTWORK: Canola Fields, Borders
Mary Anne Rudy attended University of Manitoba and has a Batchelor of Interior Design and a Masters Degree in Facility Management. Mary Anne studied water colour painting, drawing and graphic presentation as part of her degree in interior design and has also taken courses at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Her work is currently represented in Birchwood Art Gallery in Winnipeg, and held in both public and private collections nationally and internationally. Her work was selected as part of the collection for the Millennium Library in Winnipeg in 2004 after the Library underwent extensive renovations. Several large corporations have purchased her monotype prints as part of their corporate collections. Four pieces of her work have been selected by the Canadiana Fund as part of their permanent collection for Canada’s official residences to be displayed in Rideau Hall in Ottawa and Citadel in Quebec City.
ARTIST: Neil Kolton
ARTWORK: Daisies, Green Mosaic
ARTIST: Miriam Duff
ARTWORK: Inukshuk
Miriam Duff has been producing original works in glass for over 15 years; and since 1996, working under the name: M.A.D. About Glass (which says it all!) The range of methods through which pieces are produced include traditional stained glass techniques, cold work (shaping and lamination), and warm glass (kiln fired, including fusing, slumping and casting). Miriam is fascinated by the dynamic relationship shared between light and glass: each reveals the other in ways that would not otherwise exist. Creating works that allow the viewer to experience this transformational process is Miriam’s goal.
ARTIST: Julie Pedersen
ARTWORK: ‘Mukkies’
Julie graduated from the Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design in Vancouver and then moved to Toronto to design and sell for Linda Lundstrom. Thankfully, Julie returned to Winnipeg. Winter in Winnipeg demands boots – but not just anything would do, and then there were “Muckies”. Julie has created a line of celebrity worn mukluks using genuine suede and leather, luscious furs including Tibetan lamb and Rabbit as well as faux fur and knitwear alternatives, paired with embellishments varying from appliqués and gems to chains and buckles, making each pair truly unique. Muckies are meticulously constructed by designer Julie Pedersen and are sold locally at her studio, Swank and Nygard. www.juliepedersen.com
Artist: Evelyn Richter
Artwork: Are You Listening (hand built clay)
Though she spent three years in Ceramics at the School of Art, University of Manitoba, Evelin Richter considers herself a “student of life.” She has been working with clay since 1990, and after returning from a stint as a guest artist (in ceramics) at the Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University in 2006, she founded “What? Clay Art & Curios”. As a full-time ceramic artist she now works from her home-based studio in Winnipeg Beach.
Ev works primarily in hand-built clay, thrown stoneware, and multi-medium assemblage—the scale of her pieces ranges from delicate wearable jewelry to larger figurative sculptures. Ev’s creations are in various private collections, she (happily) fulfills commissions, and her works are available through select galleries. www.whatclayart.com
