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  • Alison was born in Workington, Cumberland, England and immigrated to Canada in 1971. She has lived in seven Canadian cities and spent three years each in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA and Ilo, Peru. Now she presides in Brockville, with her husband. She has received appropriate credit courses in Fine arts, Drafting and Architecture and has a Graphic Design Diploma from Salt Lake Community College, Utah. She has participated in and instructed workshops in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, PEI and Peru.

    She has instructed work shops and taught at the Older Adult centre, the Art Gallery of Sudbury and in local art clubs. While living in P.E.I., she has taught Seniors College in Drawing, Acrylics and Mixed Media in the Fall and Winter classes. She has been an active member of Noranda art club, Quebec, Porcupine art club, Timmins and Sudbury Art club, ON. These clubs are affiliated with Northern Ontario arts association (NOAA). An annual juried show for some 15 Northern Towns and Cities, which travels to most northern locations annually. She was accepted into 20 of these. Also for a short time a member of Thompson Art Club, Manitoba, Ottawa East art club and Salt Lake City art club. She exhibited her work with each club. She has volunteered her art expertise in local schools, Girl Guides, and for the Mentally and Hearing challenged. For the past four years she has organized a Monday paint in class at the Arts Hub in Brockville and is a committee member for Fulford Place annual juried show. Also an active member with Thousand Islands fine Art Association and the Brockville artists' Studio.

    She participating in juried exhibitions and has been accepted into one provincial and two international art exhibitions. She has had many solo shows and two-man shows, plus group shows in the area she lived in throughout the years.

    Her favourite mediums are Printmaking, Collage, Mixed Media and Acrylics. She has received awards from LaCloche, Whitefish Falls, and NOAA juried shows, ON. also from Churchill, MA. and Salt Lake City, USA. She has received Ontario Art and P.E.I. Council Grants. Her art work is in several public and private collections

  • Bob is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC) and the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA). He works in oil, watercolour and charcoal. He competes nationally and internationally having appeared in more than 70 juried shows. His portraits, landscapes and still life have been recognized with awards including the distinguished CSPWC’s Carl Schaeffer Award for a watercolour group portrait. He was also featured in the popular Plein Air Magazine as a category winner for “structures”.

    He has shown at galleries in Montreal, Toronto, Oakville, Calgary and Halifax. He is represented by the Summer and Grace Gallery in Oakville Ontario. He recently showed a watercolour portrait at the famed Roberts Gallery in Toronto as part of the juried CSPWC 100th anniversary exhibition.

    Bob taught oil painting at St Lawrence College; Brockville Campus in 2015/16; and participated in a review of the Fines Art curriculum. In 2016 he drafted a New Member Standard for the CSPWC. He volunteers on local and national art society boards. He is a past Director of Youth Opportunities in the Arts, past Regional Director, and Treasurer of the CSPWC and past New Member Liaison/Director of the SCA.

    He chaired three Elected Membership calls for the SCA. He also offers workshops for beginner and intermediate adult painters who want to improve their skills. The workshops are held at the studios of ArtsHub Brockville. He has given workshops to regional artists and guilds.

  • Mossop's sublimely minimalist watercolours scoop up the vital essence of nature from rapidly unfolding views experienced as a passenger on road trips. Watercolour demands immediacy and precision. From Canadian war artist Aba Bayefsky,  Andrea learned the speed and urgency of the respond-and-commit process of his fieldwork in the war years. 

    The sensual materiality of oil painting, the crafting of an object which leaves itself as a lasting presence, interests Mossop. In layering skins of colour over the longer arc of time, Andrea finds the act of painting itself is the embodiment of movement into stillness. 

    Mossop's journey began at age 6 drawing with her father at the dining room table, inspired by a beautifully articulated ballerina doll. The doll's expression of movement foreshadowed Andrea's lifelong fascination with capturing energy from life. Years later, Andrea filled whole sketchbooks at a time in rapid brush and ink drawings of the dancers from a corner on the floor of company class at the Toronto Dance Theatre and the National Ballet School. From this work, Mossop found inspiration to her major body of painting. A show at the Bau-Xi Gallery In Toronto in 2000 with her mentor Hugh Mackenzie entitled The Absence of Colour defined her interests in black and white work.

    Growing up in the Toronto's vibrant art culture during the '50s and '60s, inspired by oil painting on site, classes at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum, led to her  BA in Fine Art at Western University followed by advanced studio studies at the Ontario College of Art. 

    Over fifty years, Mossop has taught at St. Lawrence College Brockville, The Haliburton School of the Arts, and the Ottawa School of Art, in addition to offering private workshops and mentoring. Known for her depth of knowledge, Andrea's career forwards the legacy of the renowned Canadian artists with whom she worked while bringing her own energy and spark of insight to the collaboration with her students with breadth of imagination in teaching and lecturing.

  • Lisa Free is a Canadian painter from Brockville, Ontario, whose ethereal, minimalist waterscapes capture calm, reflection, and the quiet energy of nature. Inspired by the Thousand Islands and coastlines across Canada, her work has been exhibited widely, including five seasons at the Toronto Artist Project, and she has been represented by well-regarded galleries in the Canadian art industry. Her paintings have been featured in Arabella, Blank Spaces, and Canadian House & Home magazines, with collectors drawn to their serenity and timeless presence.

  • Dave Sheridan BFA has been creating local artworks in the Brockville area for nearly 50 years. He is an honours graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Western Ontario and a Classical  Animation graduate from Sheridan College. He received his Bachelor of Teaching in 1986 and received the Prime Minister's Award of Teaching Excellence in 2006.

    Throughout his career he has explored various media including acrylics, water colour, oil, clay, bronze, and stained glass.

    He is best known as a mural artist and sculptor but is especially proud of his art direction for many community/student projects in the Brockville area.

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