THE ARTISTS

 

Laura Bird is a visual artist, designer, and performing songwriter based in the hamlet of Holland Centre, Ontario. When the world slowed down in 2020 and live music found its stage on the living room sofa, Laura reignited her love for creating art. She quickly established a dedicated studio routine, honing her skills in pencil and charcoal sketching through an online life drawing group, experimenting with mixed media abstract painting, and entering a meditative creative flow that resulted in a 27-piece series of pen & ink and watercolour pointillist miniatures. Guided by curiosity and a commitment to visual storytelling, Laura’s practice uses expressive colour and texture to bring her ideas to life. Always seeking new creative avenues, her journey embodies a passion for both music and visual art, seamlessly blending disciplines as she continues to grow and evolve as an artist.

Website www.laurabird.com
IG @laurabird.art

 

Kate Civiero, the master glassblower behind Infinite Glassworks, thoughtfully designs and creates modern, colourful handblown glassware that adds beauty to life’s daily rituals. Each glass object is meticulously crafted one at a time from 2100ºF molten glass using traditional glassblowing techniques. Infinite Glassworks is located on a rural woodland property outside of Berkeley, Ontario, Canada.

Shop www.infiniteglassworks.com
IG @infiniteglassworks
Facebook @infiniteglassworks

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Caryn Joy Colman My first art memory is from nursery school, making a painting of a big, fat, juicy snake. Since then, I’ve been drawing and painting all my life.
I’ve always been motivated to make art that expresses an idea. For me there is no other reason. My landscapes, figurative, and sculptural works explore how we walk in this world.
I’m an alumnus from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. My career includes scenic art with the Shaw Festival, National Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera Company. I taught watercolour painting at the McMichael Canadian Collection, started my own plein-air teaching studio (the Travelling Studio) based in Wiarton, and when I moved to Temagami Ontario, I gave hundreds of watercolour workshops at my tourism business, Smoothwater.
Currently I live in Meaford, Ontario, exhibiting in Grey Bruce area.

Website www.carynjoycolman.com

 

Lauriss Detzler creates pottery inspired by nature’s stillness and simplicity. As a teacher and maker, she finds joy in both the process and the finished form — each piece shaped with the intention to bring humour, warmth, peace, and connection to those who hold it.

Email laurissd@live.ca
Facebook @simplypottsbylaurissd
IG @simply_potts_by_lauriss

 

Sylvia Elliott has resided amongst the trees along the shore of Lake Huron for more than twenty years. At mid-life she studied fine art at York University. Her work is included in collections in many countries and she has won several awards. Working and playing with mixed media collage, Sylvia recombines materials and this layering allows her to simultaneously reveal and conceal and ultimately bring cohesion to disparate parts, creating a new whole - in a sometimes surprising, sometimes challenging, sometimes beautiful way. Along with the Red Schoolhouse Gallery (Ferndale), she is a member of the Bruce Peninsula Society of Artists, Owen Sound Artists' Co-op, Southampton Arts, The Art Shoppe (Miller Lake) and the Milkweed Collective (Toronto).

 

Cindy Habart I am a self-taught artist based in Harriston Ontario, with a little place in Hope Bay on the Bruce Peninsula. Most of my paintings are done in oil paint, but I also love to paint very simple tree paintings in black acrylic. Whichever medium, my inspiration is always nature... from lake scenes; pastoral scenes; as well as animals and birds. My hope is that I am able to capture the nuanced beauty of our surroundings with my brush.

 

A native of Owen Sound, Bonnie Hastings has worked in Ontario and Quebec as teacher, medical assistant and mother and now enjoys retirement in Southampton, Ontario. She attended Stratford Teacher’s College and Waterloo University. Taking a watercolour course with Marian Anderson in 2011 at the Southampton Art School set her on the journey as an artist. Periodically she hangs in a number of gallery shows in Ontario and online and is a long time artist at Southampton Art Gallery.

Website bonniehastingsartist.com
IG @bhastingsartist
Facebook @Bonnie Palmer Hastings

 

Jenny Iserman While raising a family, and working in social service administration, I have been making and exhibiting my art since the 1980’s. Beginning with quilts and textiles, then moving into painting and photography, I have been able to master a range of skills and media. I am now primarily a book artist, but inspired by my surroundings, I continue to create the mixed media florals included in the Winter Eclectics show. My work has been exhibited in various galleries in Ontario, including Durham Art Gallery, Blyth Festival Gallery, Quest Art Midland, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Ontario Craft Council and Artscape Toronto. I was honoured to be selected to participate in the Canadian Bookbinders Guild’s Art of the Book exhibition, which travelled to every Canadian Province between 2018-2020. I am a past recipient of an Ontario Arts Council craft development grant.

IG @iserwoman

Brenda Korell has participated in group art shows in the Toronto and Grey County areas since the late '90s. She is now happy to call Bruce County home since 2021. Since moving to the area, she has displayed her art at: Owen Sound Artists Co-operative, Grey Gallery, Durham Art Gallery, The Gallery at L.E. Shore, and the Bruce County Public Library (Walkerton Branch). Inspiration for creativity is not hard when working in her little studio in Grey County, often in mixed media/collage. Finding wonderful handmade papers from the area and natural items from frequent strolls/hikes in the nearby woods; she puts these in compositions with themes and subjects that she values greatly. "The forests near my family's home are my sacred places for imagination and wonder".

 

Visual artist, singer-songwriter.
During a long career that started in the 1970s, Harpin’ Norm Lucien alternated his focus between visual art and music. He attended the Ontario College of Art and Design after completing high school. During the following decades he exhibited in various solo and group shows. In his late 40’s Norm completed a BFA at York University and became more involved in his other love, music, as a singer-songwriter. Since then he has released two albums and he continues to paint and make sculptures.

www.harpinnorm.com
CD’s out now:
'CLOSE TO THE FLAME' &
’The Worlds Strongest Man’

 

Cindy Matthews is a multi-genre creator from Brockton, Ontario, working as a visual artist who tells stories with mixed-media collages. She is also the author of the short story collections Took You So Long and The Roach Family and Other Stories. Her next collection, Audrey Droop, is forthcoming in 2026. She enjoys helping writers and artists develop their skills through workshops.

IG @cindymatthews1957

Bev Morgan is a proud member of the Saugeen Artists Guild, and the Federation of Canadian Artists. She has taught her passion of watercolours over 30 years in her Hanover community, cruise lines, Southampton Art School and Udemy online courses with over 8700 students. She uses watercolours traditionally as well as incorporates it into other mediums, such as photography, batik, and scratch art. Every year, she challenges herself to create new collection or series of subject matter, such as Mushrooms, Fruit, Waterfalls, Music, etc. Bev as an artist, teacher and mentor, continues to grow, explore, experiment and learn through her own experiences and from her students.

Website bev-morgan.pixels.com
Email jbmorgan@wightman.ca
On-line Courses udemy.com/user/bev-morgan/

 

Daciana Desi Seulean I was born in Brașov, Transylvania - a place where mountains, legends, and art live side by side. Painting has always been my way of translating emotion into colour and silence into form. Now living in Canada, I continue to follow this creative path, letting symbols, textures, and light guide my work. Each piece carries a bit of my journey - a story of spirit, memory, and the quiet magic found in everyday life.

IG @dacianadao

 

Margaret Jayne Stanley My journey as an artist has been an endless endeavor to develop the skills, enjoy the efforts and keep the joy in the production of the creations above all other needs. The use of various mediums, subjects and techniques opens the vast horizons of creativity, offering endless avenues of artistic adventure. As a mostly self taught artist, I've enjoyed guidance through my very artistic parents, my education focused upon artistic options, studying with various artists in my area, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My first oil painting at age 7 was of a red barn in the country, my father guiding my way into another world!

Website jaynekelkart.com

 

Lorina Stephens has been an artist from the age of 14 when she studied with Dorothy Milne Eplett. She works primarily in watercolour, although is comfortable with most media. Her art expresses her deep love of the Canadian landscape, capturing atmospheric conditions, light, and movement, working within a limited palette with primarily transparent pigments.She is also a writer, reviewer, and editor, with four novels, two collections of short fiction, and three non-fiction books in publication. She lives in a 150 year old stone house in Neustadt with the love of her life of 51 years.

Website fiveriverspublishing.com
Facebook @FiveRiversPublishing