Artists in the Garden

 

Proudly presenting local artists, from past and present garden tours …

 

Heather Benjamin, Garden Curator

With over 20 years of experience as a professional florist, Heather has a keen eye for design and a passion for all things botanical. After years of working with flowers, she has found a new medium for her creativity: cement. Heather crafts stepping stones, bird baths, alpine troughs, and whimsical mushrooms to add playfulness to any garden. 
 
  • Cell:                                    905-243-3575
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Emma Choi, Crocheter

Emma is an avid crocheter and is the owner of Emma’s Crochet Creations.

 

Sarah Farndon – Stained Glass Artist

Sarah (aka Busy Bee) has been a lifelong artist, dabbling in many styles and mediums, but stained glass has now taken its place as her favourite of them all.  Sarah loves working in partnership with light, and her stained glass work is ever changing as the light around her is ever changing. With her past history as a sculptor, she enjoys working in a three dimensional fashion with stained glass; pushing the limits of the shapes it can take.
 

 

Margaret Grandison – Plein Air Painter

As an en plein air artist Margaret is drawn to the play of light and shadows. She enjoys immersing herself into the landscape to experience the sights and sounds that inspire her. She likes to add a touch of whimsy and playfulness of colour to her paintings, using watercolours.

 

Kate Greenway – Glass Artist and Plein Air Painter

Kate creates most often in watercolour and in glass – fused, stained and mosaic – frequently combining mixed media and photo-transfer elements. Her favorite subjects to paint are flora, fauna, and landscapes, where she tends to work representationally; in glass, she leans more to abstract expression or thematically linked pieces. Most recently she is experimenting with collage, and adding dimensional pieces to her paintings. Works range from decorative paintings, glass panels, and pet portraits, to more practical items such as garden stepping stones and fused glass votive candle pieces; commissions are welcome.
 

 

Kenneth Lehtinen, Painter

Kenneth Lehtinen is an OCAD (Ontario College of Art & Design University) trained artist focused on abstract expressionism.  He has over 30 years of painting and digital 3D model design and takes inspiration from the outdoors. 

 

John Martin – Mandala Artist and Plein Air Painter

John Martin is an artist using a variety of traditional and non-traditional media to create vivid pieces of art that he sells to raise money for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Humanitarian Relief Fund. 

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Laurel Martin – Plein Air Painter

Laurel Martin is a landscape painter whose vivid colours and bold shapes reflect her years as a linocut printmaker. She now loves the thrill and immediacy of painting outdoors with oils. “Painting outdoors requires you to react spontaneously and gives you a chance to capture a fleeting moment in time, it’s such a different process from printmaking which is so planned out. You never know what will happen when you paint outside. It’s exciting!”

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  • Email:                              cranberrycloud@gmail.com
  • Website:                        www.laurelmartin.ca
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Ray McNeice – Plein Air Painter

Ray has a painting style that is a product of his long career in graphic design… a concern for shape and form, eye movement and spatial relationships. His medium of choice has been transparent watercolour.
 

 

Saundra Reiner – Potter and Painter

Saundra Reiner, best known as a potter and painter, has always been a maker. She incorporated her creativity into her professional life working as a conservator of museum artifacts for a Toronto museum (24 years) while maintaining a pottery studio.  She has recently become interested in ceramic sculpture as well as the functional work she began with, and enjoys pushing the limits of the materials.” I strive to bring pleasure to the user of the functional and/or decorative pieces I make”. She is celebrating 30 years with the juried Uxbridge Studio Tour and been part of many studio tours, exhibitions, galleries and museum shops over that time, currently she is a resident artist at Scugog Arts Space Gallery, Port Perry.

 

Jean-Pierre Schoss, Recycled Metal Art

Jean Pierre Schoss works with the human form and images from nature. His work is created by recycling steel from oil tanks, farm implements or any found steel that is thick enough to be used. He cuts apart, heats and recreates the steel in order to orchestrate his ideas. Jean-Pierre’s works are often full of humour and whimsy, making them perfect for fun pairings and vignettes in the garden.

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Sean Stone – Photographer

Sean Stone started his photographic journey in high school with his first 35mm SLR, shooting and developing his own black and white images for his school newspaper.  He continued this passion throughout university, shooting special events for Simpsons Department store (which anchors his age with shocking specificity).  With his wife, he has been lucky enough to travel and photograph much of the world–from Iceland to New Zealand, from the Hawaiian Islands to Singapore—but still loves the photographic opportunities that abound in Canada. His careers in both theatre lighting design, and thirty years of teaching Theatre Arts, have given him many opportunities to see how light and shape define what we see and how we see it.  Now retired from teaching, his love of photography has yet to diminish; he enjoys capturing beautiful images more than ever. 

 

Craig Telfer – Woodworker

Craig has worked in many mediums but figurative wood informs his creations from simple kitchen implements to live edge tables, bowls to found art.   His work has been shown at the Uxbridge Studio Tour for many years.  He is fortunate to have a woodlot with Maple and Yellow Birch trees that yields some beautiful but tortured grains. If you would like to learn more, please watch Craig’s YouTube video ‘Telfer Works in Wood’.

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A Sunflower for Ukraine by Kate Greenway
Sean Stone Photography
Sean Stone Photography
Lilies and Lavender by Margaret Grandison
Lilies and Lavender by Margaret Grandison
Craig Telfer
Craig Telfer – Live Edge Flower Vase
At Pond's End by Ray McNeice
At Pond’s End by Ray McNeice
Tricia Webster
Tricia Webster
John Martin
John Martin
Magnolia Take Over Laurel Martin
Magnolia Take Over Laurel Martin
Nature Girl w Book by Saundra Reiner
Nature Girl w Book by Saundra Reiner
Sarah Farndon
Sarah Farndon
Emma Choi
Heather Benjamin
Kenneth Lehtinen

Jean-Pierre Schoss