Artists in the Garden – Gardens of Uxbridge

Previous Artists in the Gardens:

Nancy R. Chalut – Plein Air Painter

Nancy R. Chalut is an oil painter who works in the realism style of the Renaissance Masters. She is attracted to an eclectic array of subject matter focusing on form and colour. Nancy is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists. She is represented by Preston Gallery Uxbridge.

Cell: 905-985-8621
Email: myfrick55@gmail.com
Payment Options: Cash

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.

Website: www.busybeestainedglassstudio.etsy.com
Facebook: Busy Bee Glass Studio
Instagram: @busybeeglassstudio
Payment Options: Cash, Credit, Debit

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.

Cell: 416-602-3850
Email: beaglesofballantrae@gmail.com
Website: www.beaglesofballantrae.ca
Instagram: @beaglesofballantrae
Payment Options: Cash, e-transfer, credit, debit

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.

Cell : 647-852-4424
Email: martinartcollective@gmail.com
Website: martinartcollective.com
Instagram: @martinartcollective
Facebook: Art Martin | Facebook
Payment Options: Credit, debit, e-transfer, cash

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!”

Cell : 647-502-4424
Email: cranberrycloud@gmail.com
Website: www.laurelmartin.ca
Instagram: @laurelmartin
Facebook: LaurelMartin | Facebook
Payment Options: Credit, debit, e-transfer, cash

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.

Cell: 905-640-2279
Email: r.mcneice.art@gmail.com
Website: www.back2backfineart.com
Facebook: Ray McNeice | Facebook

Kirsty Naray – Mixed Media

Kirsty has been a glass beadmaker since 1993 and for the past few years has also been working with fibre: needle felting, nuno felting, wet felting, spinning and Saori weaving. “I am now trying to find new ways of incorporating both glass and fibre into unique pieces. Metal, including sterling silver, copper and brass and alcohol ink paintings and watercolours have now become part of my artistic endeavours. These mediums have been both rewarding and challenging. Learning new techniques and producing a positive result brings me great joy and satisfaction.”

Website: kirstynaray.com
Enstagram: @kirstynaray
Payment Options: debit, credit

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.

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.

Email: luminosity5415@gmail.com
Website: www.luminosity5415.wixsite.com
Payment Options: Cash, e-transfer, credit, debit

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’.

Cell : 705-357-3939
Email: telferworksinwood@gmail.com
Instagram: @craig.telfer.148
Payment Options: Cash, cheque, e-transfer

Linda Virio – Painter

Linda Virio is a painter working with wax and watercolour. Traditional watercolour, watercolour batik on rice paper, and encaustic are her media of choice. She is fascinated by the tactile nature of wax and how it interacts with pigment, collage, mark making and texture. Gardens and country landscapes are Linda’s favourite subjects.

Cell: 905-259-5505
Email: lidiviart@gmail.com
Website: lindavirio.com
Facebook: Linda Virio Visual Artist
Payment Options: Cash, credit, e-transfer

Tricia Webster – Garden Art

Tricia Webster creates charming and whimsical garden art using all natural materials like cotton, bark, moss, wood and burlap. She imparts personality and warmth into her sculptural pieces yet making them durable and outdoor hardy.