Alex Hunt is a Canadian abstract artist with a flair for bold, well-constructed colour palettes and elaborate compositions. Alex’s love for colour and working with acrylics as her chosen medium stems from her longstanding background as a magazine Fashion Editor. This has enriched her talent and technique evident in her colour combinations, exquisite layering and spontaneous brush strokes. Her artwork evokes joy reflective of her positive and playful personality. Intuition and raw emotion make up the layers and texture in her artworks creating a visual delight for her clients to love and adore in their homes.

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Alexandrya Eaton is a contemporary Canadian painter. In the past decade her practice has grown to include rug-hooking and weaving, incorporating the same vibrant palette and feminine icons across all mediums. Alexandrya Eaton’s work is an emotional tribute to the self, working mothers, and women everywhere who have experienced the loss of significant   figures. Eaton’s superpower has always been her radical expressions of love as she navigates the world with an open heart and confidently proves there is strength in vulnerability.

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Early in life, Adele Webster found the escape creativity provided, the peaceful place your brain wanders while creating. Everything she paints begins in nature; the way water moves, the way clouds form. Natural landscapes, seascapes and horizon lines are a constant theme throughout her creations. She works on birch panels with acrylic and high gloss resin, allowing the wood to peek through and add a natural, textural element to her work.  Adele paints to find peace and joy and hopes that it's reflected back to everyone that sees it.

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Karen Jeffrey is an abstract artist working in acrylic, and cold wax, and oil. Karen's body of work is largely reflective of her many travels and she draws her inspirations from her surroundings and the ongoing dialogue in her mind. Each painting represents a collection of fragments from her memories of travels, and they come together to form a larger visual story. Giving the piece lively energy and captures an environment, where the forms, lines, and marks coexist.

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Stephen Perry’s paintings range from intimate to mythic. There is a story going on in Stephen Perry's work... but you're never quite sure what it is. There are recurring themes: animals, nature, humanity, technology… and the places and moments where they intersect. The creative approach has a unique contemporary feel - a "stylized realism" - with smooth gradations, subtle blends and a distinct use of light and shade. Stephen Perry’s background includes photography, graphic design, film making and 3D animation.  

 

Gail Blima is a creative innovator who has explored photography, representational art and mixed media. She uses the power of language to make a statement and draw out emotion.

“By layering vibrant acrylic accents over a collage base and incorporating the written word, I connect the audience to cultural references that are ironic, humorous or directed from pop culture. The first thing people notice about my art is the clear-cut message. I want to convey a feeling of empowerment, optimism, and positivity through my paintings.”

 

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Keren Toledano is a self-taught artist based in New York City specializing in art to furnish existing spaces.  She worked as literary agent, editor and writer and after publishing several short stories in literary journals, writer’s block led her to explore fine art. Her current work revolves around the act of telling stories in the absence of a formal language. She now splits her time between painting and writing, finding connections across disciplines. In addition to collaborations with interior designers and art publishers, her work has been featured at international fairs and in various magazines.

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Crystal Beshara has been drawing and painting since childhood inspired by her rural upbringing in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Crystal moves easily between watercolour, oil and dry media. Her work is recognizable with it’s rich, earth toned palette and emotionally charged, rural narrative. She spent years as a child observing and quietly illustrating the life around her which has informed the accuracy of her anatomy in both her flora and fauna subject matter as well as her ability to capture expression and emotion in her portraits.

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Kristy Gordon is a Canadian-born artist living in New York City. 

"My visual narratives counter-historical representations of the figure in painting, namely white bodies performing conventional gender roles. Instead, I populate my work with people from diverse backgrounds. I also insert feminine or camp motifs—flowers, unicorns, and fairies, for example—into traditionally masculine genres. The presence of monsters and mythic beings further suggests that these are spaces where identity is fluid."

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Marina Nazarova is a Russian-Canadian painter and illustrator. Her work mainly focuses on people and spaces as she endeavours to investigate themes of subjectivity, duality and shifting perceptions.

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