Lawren Rich
Manitoba contemporary painter Lawren Rich (he/they) has been producing high quality, innovative, original artwork for over 30 years. Their original studies began in graphic design in the 80s, shifting from large scale mural work to fine art on canvas over the years. Their unique vision and experiences are reflected in works that address their passions for rural, animal, and cityscape themes to the conceptually abstracted themes they currently enjoys exploring. These pieces are informed by their life long love of the prairies.
Lawren’s work can be seen in galleries, homes and businesses throughout the province and across Canada. Custom, one of a kind, commissions make up a large portion of his portfolio.
Lawren also plays contemporary guitar and double bass part time in various formats at small venues around Winnipeg and the Manitoba area. Their approach to music follows the same lines as their art; expressive, creative and personal with an emphasis on space and vitality.
Artwork by Lawren Rich
Lori Ferguson
Winnipeg artist Lori Ferguson expresses her belief that the inevitability of change is the only real constant in life through paintings that evoke a sense of shifting and movement. She loves to paint common and seemingly tangible items in a way that shows both their lasting nostalgic impact on our lives, as well their impermanence as they fleetingly appear and disappear from our daily realities.
Full of characteristic brush strokes and a palpable quality of energy, Lori’s paintings are alive with energy and motion. Using oil paint as her main weapon of choice, she expects that her work will elicit a response to both the familiar and the unexpected in her passionately painted forms.
Lori has exhibited her work in a number of solo and group exhibitions and galleries. Her paintings can be found in private collections throughout Canada and the United States.
Artwork by Lori Ferguson
Berting Glass
Berting Glass was established by Jacqueline Berting in 1992 after the unveiling of her Glass Wheatfield; a salute to Farmers, encompassing 14,000 waist high glass wheat stalks.
Berting Glass supplies glass gifts to over 90 gift shops and galleries across Canada, as well as creating one of a kind art works, commissions, installations and awards. These glass gifts have been presented to dignitaries, celebrities, members of the Royal Family, The President of the Ukraine, NHL Stars, Guest Speakers, and relatives and friends from around the world. The glass wheat has become a unique symbol for Saskatchewan and the prairies, and is a favorite gift for someone who has everything, conferences, weddings, anniversaries, and many formal events.
Artwork by Berting Glass
Myriam Boulet
Artwork by Myriam Boulet
Claudette Castonguay
Claudette Castonguay was born in Quebec in 1949. After retiring from teaching, she began painting professionally and has done so for over 25 years. Working with acrylics and collage, she portrays whimsical animals, playful children, and market gardens, reflecting on the Quebecois “joie de vivre” with a twist of elegance.
Her paintings are represented by galleries across Canada.
Artwork by Claudette Castonguay
Debra Frances
Debra Frances is a bookbinder and book artist from Winnipeg. She is fascinated by the compact form of the book and how it can house and reflect a wide range of ideas. Drawn to the quality and design of historical bindings Frances is always working to innovate utilizing contemporary materials, exploring exotic woods, logs, driftwood, and fish skins.
These swivelling, handmade book ornaments are bound with individual pages using traditional bookbinding techniques.
Artwork by Debra Frances
Brook Drabot
Brook Drabot began working with glass during a high school stained glass course. She fell in love with the medium, eventually transitioning to lamp worked and hand-blown glass in college. Working in her home studio, Drabot loves the solitary hands-on experience that glass provides. She often finds inspiration in objects of the natural world, like leaves, feathers, lichen, and bones… some of which find their way into her pieces.
Artwork by Brook Drabot
Emery & Opal
This nature-inspired, dreamy and celestial demi-fine jewelry is designed and handmade by sisters, Amanda and Tiffany. Their designs are sketched and created by hand in their Montreal studio.
Sourcing ethical materials, they use synthetic and natural stones to ensure their pieces are affordable. They primarily use gold-filled materials and recycled sterling silver.
Artwork by Emery & Opal
Rachel Goossen
Rachel Goossen is a visual artist living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Goossen received a Bachelor of Fine Art Honours from the University of Manitoba. Her work primarily focuses on themes in relation to memory, identity, and place through a mixed media practice. Her intuitive based process allows a direct connection and response to the spaces she is interpreting, letting the natural reduction of abstract shapes form. Breaking environments down to their formal qualities, Goossen creates contemporary compositions that produce uncharted territory within familiar places. She has had the opportunity to create numerous public art projects in downtown Winnipeg including murals, electrical box paintings, and shutter art for local businesses. Client Collaborations: Interior Illusions , Hut K Furniture & Design Store, Sage Creek Pointe Apartments
Artwork by Rachel Goossen
Terry Hildebrand
Terry Hildebrand makes his ceramic work out of porcelain with a focus on drinking vessels. He fires the pieces in a soda, salt, or a wood kiln to give them a delicate flashing of reds, oranges, blues and greens. The earthy tones reflect the earthen qualities of clay. Good craftsmanship, ergonomics, and visual balance are important. The main purpose of his utilitarian ceramic work is undeniably its function. The ritual of its use becomes a central experience. Hildebrand creates playful sets that entice the users to interact with each other and the tray. The sharing of food, drink, fellowship, and play lie at the heart of our existence and the conscious ritual and enjoyment of these are greatly enhanced by the experience of the visual and tactile senses that the ceramic wares address.
Originally from a small town in Manitoba, Terry Hildebrand graduated with an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota in May 2014. He received a BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba in 2007. From 2009 until 2011 he worked as studio technician in the ceramics department at the University of Manitoba. In the years after his MFA he taught at Medicine Hat College, University of Manitoba, and has participated in multiple residencies at Medalta and the Banff Center while also exhibiting nationally and internationally. Terry and his partner Miriam Rudolph are full time artists based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Artwork by Terry Hildebrand
Carolyn Klassen
Carolyn Klassen grew up on a farm in Western Manitoba with a love for the prairies and rural life. With the guidance of her mother she learned to sew, and became enthralled by the possibilities of scrap fabrics from her mother’s sewing.
As an experienced quilter and sewer, Klassen uses high-quality materials, including hand-dyed and batik fabrics, while employing a multitude of art-quilting techniques to emulate her dreamy landscapes.
These hand-made quilted ‘postcards’ are based on Klassen’s personal photographs from various places in Manitoba. Each one is handmade, varying in colour, texture, and detail, inspiring a sense of what is unseen in the world, and in Klassen’s view, the spiritual.
Artwork by Carolyn Klassen
Gerard Lapointe (1932-2022)
Gerard Lapointe lived and practiced his art in Charlevoix, Quebec. Originally a draughtsman, he shifted his focus to painting after discovering its potential and freedom of expression.
Lapointe’s distinctive, Impressionistic painting style is charming and poetic, as he experiments with colour and form, reinventing the surrounding landscape. Autumnal trees and quaint houses are speckled among rolling hills and rounded mountains in his picturesque scenes of the Charlevoix region.
His paintings are held in private collections across Canada.
Artwork by Gerard Lapointe (1932-2022)
Jared Loewen
Jared Loewen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan into a large family of seven. From a young age, he was always drawn to serenity provided from drawing cartoon characters in imaginary worlds. As a teenager, Jared spent most of his free time honing his skills as a cartoonist, realistic pencil artist, and eventually painter. Originally, he desired to be a hand-drawn classical animator for film and television. When computer animation began to increase in popularity, however, Jared steered his plans into a more desirable and traditional route. He enrolled at UBCO and majored in history with a minor in mathematics. Elements of Jared’s post-secondary education are seen in his work today. His appreciation for history, for example, is hidden in the conceptual meaning of his works, while math is seen more evidently in his use line, shape, and order. Jared went on to become an elementary school teacher which he continues to this day.
Jared is a self-proclaimed lifelong learner and has always been drawn to the elemental aspects of life – it’s origins, meaning, and destiny. His current body of work breaks down the human form into the fundamental expressions of line and shape. He uses these basic elemental forms to build, express, and contemplate the interplay between form and formlessness, the fabric of consciousness, and the origins of the human story. Today you can find his contemporary original works at The Lloyd Gallery in Penticton, BC.
Artwork by Jared Loewen
Megan MacDonald
Megan MacDonald (Crows Nest Art Studio) is an encaustic and mixed media artist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia.
“The possibilities that encaustics offer seem unlimited and the depth that can be created with encaustics is unique. It provides the ability to build up texture and the surface of the work and then scrape back, carve in and fuse. Building up and breaking down, constantly adjusting. Encaustic is so tactile, I love the myriad of possibilities the medium offers. I feel it encourages everyone to explore and discover their own unique voice. The studio enables me to share my passion for painting in encaustic and various approaches to working in the medium.”
Artwork by Megan MacDonald
MacDougall Studios
MacDougall Studios is a collaborative mother and daughter duo creating wheel thrown and cast ceramic works in Winnipeg. Manitoba. Each of their pieces is thrown or cast and then glazed or drawn upon. These unique pieces are developed out of a philosophy that the everyday items we use can be beautiful and bring a sense of well being to our personal spaces. Every one of their products is created collaboratively, from design to production.
Artwork by MacDougall Studios
Maria Ida Designs
Artwork by Maria Ida Designs
Sharon Mark (ornaments)
Sharon Mark grew up in Hemmingford, Quebec, where she still makes her home. She was interested in art from a very early age, influenced by her grandmother who painted landscapes in oils.
A self-taught artist, Mark was always attracted to landscapes as her subject matter. Using a naive, folk style, her tranquil country scenes are often filled with people and animals. She is highly influenced by the surrounding countryside, its farmlands, apple orchards, old stone houses, historic barns, and streams. Her close proximity to the Eastern Townships, the Charlevoix area and Maritimes also inspire her work.
Mark’s paintings are cheery and nostalgic, depicting an innocent world free of troubles and worries. Her work evokes a romantic view of family life, where chores and responsibilities are shared with free time to play and pursue one’s hobbies.
Mark started showing her work locally in the 1980’s and exhibiting in galleries in 1992. Her work is represented by galleries across Canada.
Artwork by Sharon Mark (ornaments)
Lesley McInally
Artwork by Lesley McInally
McTavish Academy Art Kits
The McTavish Academy Of Art is a vibrant and inclusive creative arts facility located in a former elementary school building in North Saanich, BC.
Offering art classes, yoga, dance, event space rentals and more, it’s a place to explore creativity, discover new passions and experience a variety of events and activities. As a family owned and operated facility, they strive to provide space for our growing community to feel empowered and encouraged to express themselves through art, movement and community engagement.
McTavish Academy Art Kits are designed, made and packaged on Vancouver Island, BC. Each kit starts out as a drawing followed by a digital model separated into layers. The premium wood pieces are laser cut and boxed together with paints, brushes, wood glue, colour mixing guide and instructions. Ready to assemble and awaiting your creativity!
Artwork by McTavish Academy Art Kits
Monday Clay
Make your Monday a FUN-day with whimsical polymer clay accessories by Monday Clay. Lightweight earrings, pendants and ornaments adorned with metal findings, acrylic paint, image transfers, glitter, gold leaf and resin are made by hand in small batches in Winnipeg, MB.
Jennifer DeLury, the maker behind Monday Clay, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours in 2001. Presently and for the past two decades Jennifer has been representing emerging and established Canadian artists and helping art enthusiasts as well as new collectors adorn their spaces with artwork through Woodlands Gallery. The gallery is closed on Mondays and with her kids in school, Jennifer has taken this day to re-explore her own art practice.
Monday Clay is about fun curated collections of wearable art, adding splashes of colour and sparkle to your day. With extensive colour theory knowledge and love for pattern and texture, Jennifer has endless techniques waiting to be tested and several impending designs on the horizon for Monday Clay.
Artwork by Monday Clay
Oh Wanderer
Artwork by Oh Wanderer
Brandi Shabaga
Brandi Shabaga is a contemporary mixed media artist and earth scientist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her research has taken her across the globe – from the Canadian Arctic to the Gobi Desert – fueling her passion for adventure and supplying endless inspiration for her artwork.
In this series, Shabaga is drawn to all the abundant diversity of colours, forms and textures that flora has to offer. Her vibrant still life arrangements burst forth from minimal, geometric planes and line drawings into 3 dimensional blooms over textured backgrounds. Working with acrylics and mixed media, she melds together influences of pop and graphic arts with a loose, abstract expressionistic painting style offering bold celebrations of Flora.
Artwork by Brandi Shabaga
Melanie Simard
Melanie Simard was born in 1975 in Boischatel, Québec and has been creating art since childhood. Her two distinctive painting styles are reflective of her curiosity in materials and design.
Whether creating bold floral paintings or loose abstract works, Simard often adds mixed media to her work. She experiments with colour and texture through the use of beads, resin, drips, and spray paints. Despite this wide array of materials, each painting comes together in perfect harmony.
Simard’s work is represented in galleries across Canada and USA.
Artwork by Melanie Simard
StandOut Puzzles
Producing premium Canadian art puzzles since 2016…..in Kelowna, British Columbia.
In June 2022, BC artist Peter Wyse launched his inaugural design, ‘Crossing the Sound’ – a celebration of good times on BC’s coastal waters. ‘The Woo Hoo Gang’, a whimsical tribute to good times on Canada’s renowned ski hills, is scheduled for release in September. Welcome Peter!
Ottawa, Ontario artist Terry Ananny joins us for Holiday 2022. Her vibrant canvases of hockey, children at play and seasonal village scenes capture the spirit of Canadian life. ‘Curling on the Ottawa River’ is scheduled for release in September. The perfect gift for curling enthusiasts. Welcome Terry!
Artwork by StandOut Puzzles
Roman Świderek (prints & cards)
Click here to view Original Paintings & Drawings by Roman Swiderek
Roman Świderek was born in Lodz, Poland, where he learned to draw and paint at the side of Professor Konstanty Mackiewicz. He worked as a designer and artist preparing large displays and images of political figures of the day.
In November 1961, Świderek arrived in Winnipeg with his young family. He was immediately introduced to set designer Peter Kaczmarek who put him to work on various set designs for Rainbow Stage, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Manitoba Theatre Centre, and the University of Manitoba. In 1965, he opened his first business in design and fashion, and over the years, operated four successful businesses dealing with everything from consulting design to fashion design. In 1989, he put the businesses aside to focus solely on his art.
He travelled extensively from the east to the west coast, painting and displaying his images of Canada. In 1976, on his first summer trip to the Columbia Icefields, he began sketching and painting watercolour scenes of the Rocky Mountains. In 1982, the management of the Columbia Icefield Chalet invited him to display his work for the summer season. This invitation began a 13-year odyssey of painting and travelling west to the Athabasca Glacier. This spring migration ended when the iconic red chalet was taken down in the fall of 1995.
In addition to the end of an era at the Icefields, the 1997 Red River Flood of the Century kept him at home. In his studio on the bank of the Red River, Roman worked on a series of flood paintings that raised over $100,000 for Manitoba flood victims. This collection of thirteen watercolour paintings was purchased by Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company and donated to the City of Winnipeg.
Świderek is perhaps best known for his large collection of Winnipeg city scenes. His images of Winnipeg are motivated by his strong belief in the celebration of home, and the value of capturing the past for future generations. He believed in making his art accessible and many of his paintings of Winnipeg scenes and landmarks are available as limited edition reproductions and art cards. The backs of all art cards carry a vignette about the city, in both official languages, and are popular with Manitobans and tourists who are looking to take home a piece of Winnipeg.
Świderek worked with drawings, oils and watercolours. His work is found in collections across Canada and abroad.
Artwork by Roman Świderek (prints & cards)
Ewa Tarsia
Polish-born Canadian artist, Ewa Tarsia graduated from the School of Fine Art in Gdansk, Poland in 1979. Her artworks have been exhibited worldwide and have received international award recognition. In 2007, Ewa was inducted into The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.). Working in a variety of creative media including painting, drawing, sculpture, and landscape design, she is widely known for the vibrant colour, use of texture, and unique mark-making in her monoprints.
Artwork by Ewa Tarsia
The Hill Rd Co.
Artwork by The Hill Rd Co.
Tara Tuchscherer
Artwork by Tara Tuchscherer
Various Artists – Prints / Reproductions
Artwork by Various Artists – Prints / Reproductions
Wild Canary Studio
Amy Wetton is the artist/owner behind Wild Canary Studio. Most days you can find her painting in her home studio in Toronto, dreaming up cringe-worthy puns and laughing at dad jokes while chasing after her wild twin boys. A Designer/Art Director by profession, she discovered a love for watercolours while on maternity leave with her twins and turned this hobby into a small business! She hope to spread joy, silliness, creativity and connection through her line of delightful and well- crafted cards!
Artwork by Wild Canary Studio
