Ottawa School of Art

Peter Adamakos

Born in Montréal, Peter Adamakos has made animation and live-action film a way of life. He created his first animation film at the age of ten, and by university he headed a film-making group of 125 people making features, documentaries and shorts. He formed Disada Productions in 1971 and moved the company to Ottawa in the late 1990s, producing new animation and live-action productions. Exhibitions and film retrospectives include museums and cultural centers in Quebec City, New York, Toronto, Atlanta, Montreal, Tampa, Turkey, France, and Belgium.
 

Aida Alves

Aida Alves was born in Vancouver, B.C and raised in Ottawa. She has studied Fine Arts at Cambrian College in Sudbury, and Massage Therapy at Kine Concept in Ottawa. Currently she is studying 3D Game Artist. Over the years her art has taken expression through sculpting, drawing and her favourite, painting. Aida’s work has been constantly changing throughout her life experiences. The symbology represented reflects her interpretations of the subconscious meanings in her dreams. The feminine realm portrayed in her art is an integral part of her self expression. Her works are a subtle expression of sexuality and feminine beauty. Aida has participated numerous times at the Ottawa School of Art exhibitions. Her work can be found in private collections across Canada.
 

Nadine Argo

David Barbour

Morton Baslaw

Helen Beauchamp is a recognized and versatile integrated arts educator, art consultant, designer, and multisciplinary artist. Over the last eighteen years she has designed, implemented and facilitated thousands of visual arts, multicultural and multi-disciplinary workshops. She has designed programs and lectures for adults, teachers, and children through the Canadian National Children's Museum, Ottawa Montessori School, Ottawa School of Art, National Aviation Museum, National Postal Museum, and many more. She has also constructed costumes, props and puppets for numerous museums, with the National Art Centre and businesses in the greater capital region. She is a graduate from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts and Visual Arts Specialist. For the last eighteen years, Helen has also worked at McMaster Catholic School as an Integrated Arts Teacher.

Gérard Bélec

Gérard Bélec has been interested in drawing since a very young age, but only started painting and drawing seriously in 1981. He has a BFA (1988) and a teacher's certificate (1994) from the Université du Québec à Hull. Between 1986 and 2003, he worked for the City of Gatineau's Cultural Programs as their specialist for adult and teen oil painting classes. During this time, he also taught courses for seniors at a community centre and was the technical assistant for the municipal art gallery (until 1993). He began teaching at the Ottawa School of Art in 1994, and later coordinated the Children and Teens Program and the Animation Certificate. His time is now split between his personal and commercial projects and coordinating the OSA Outreach Program.

Juan Bohorquez (Cynosure Jewelry)

Juan Bohorquez is an award-winning jewelry designer and sculptor. He has been an active member of the arts community in the Waterloo Region since launching his business Cynosure Jewelry with his partner in 2000. Juan's work is represented at private collections and at galleries and stores across North America. www.cynosure-jewelry.com

Rosemary Breault-Landry

Dana Brezina

Adept in classical drawing and a painter in oils, Dana Brezina teaches Artistic Anatomy and Composition at the OSA. Born in Czechoslovakia, she graduated from the Classical Spanish School of Painting in Madrid. Dana is a founding member of the International Society of Academic Classical Artists. Her paintings and drawings can be found in private collections in Canada, Spain and the Czech Republic.

Ana Iriondo de Bryson

Fabio Cattelan

Fabio Cattelan has taught art in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. He is presently with the OCDSB as an Art, Design & Technology instructor. Fabio has acted as art director for seven stage productions and has taught painting, animation, sculpture, web design, as well as stage and lighting design. Fabio spent several years working as a commercial artist in Toronto. There he worked on many national accounts as both a designer and illustrator. Fabio’s recent works include sculpture in both wood and stone. Fabio received an Honors B.F.A. from York University in 1985. He holds a teaching diploma from McGill University and is certified to teach special education. Fabio has been with the Ottawa School of Art since 1997.

Audrey Churgin

David Clendining

Born in Canada, David has pursued and developed his art throughout Europe, Canada and the US for over 25 years. While studying bronze casting and commercial art at the Ontario College of Art, he also audited animation classes at Sheridan College. He worked in the field of animation at Dick Williams Disney Studio in London, England, Nelvana Studios in Toronto, and in the television and film industry in Canada, the US and England. His art can be found in many public and private collections, and his illustrations have graced the pages of a variety of children's books.

Bryna Cohen

Bryna Cohen holds B.F.A. degrees from McGill University and the University of Ottawa in addition to studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. For the past 11 years, Bryna was Educator/Guide in the Education & Public Programs Division at the National Gallery of Canada. Her broad experience with various media has enabled her to deliver high quality educational programming in an effective manner to audiences of all ages. Since 1986, Bryna's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Ottawa and throughout Canada. Bryna's work can found in several private and public collections, among them the Canada Council Art Bank and the City of Ottawa.

Pamela Cockcroft-Lasserre

Pamela Cockcroft-Lasserre studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting (St Martin’s Central, University of the Arts, London) and graduated with merit distinction. Subsequent experience included gallery custodianship, teaching Art History and being an Art Critic for the Cape Times in South Africa. Widely traveled in Africa and Europe, she has settled in the Gatineau Hills where she has a studio, creating predominantly figure paintings and drawings; she teaches at the Ottawa School of Art and exhibits regularly in Ottawa and South Africa. Her work can be found in private collections in Canada, USA, France and South Africa.

Erika Connor

Erika Connor is an artist and writer from the Gatineau Hills in Quebec, with a BFA in Studio Art and Creative Writing from Concordia University, where she won "The Irving Layton Award" for best fiction in 1991. She has published several times with the US travel anthology "Travelers' Tales": Best Travel Writing. Her writing and mixed-media paintings are inspired by her many experiences: journeys by horse in Africa and Mongolia, work as an observer of the Przewalksi horses, work in Ottawa with wild birds and wildlife at rehabilitation centres and at the Humane Society with the "Brightening Lives" Program, healing people with animals, work with street dogs in India, as well as studies in tracking and bushcraft and a lifelong connection to nature. This is  brought extensively into her mixed-media classes for children and adults at the OSA where she has taught since 1999.

Vanessa Coplan

André Coutu

André is a graduate of La Cité Collégiale who has nurtured his passion for photography since relocating to the Ottawa Region He is an instructor for La Cité Collégiale in continuing education full-time studies, and for Henry’s School of Imaging. André shoots film by choice, but is equally at home using digital photography when required. Possessing a diverse portfolio, he gets his greatest enjoyment from product shots, creative cuisine and style driven portraits.

Dawn Dale

Adam Fraser Davidson

He developed his talents early. At the age of 15 he began to become fascinated with Abstraction, Odd Illustrations, Native Art and Symbols. All of his post secondary education and extra curricular with other artists has been in his hometown of Ottawa, the Ottawa Region and via the Internet. The Ottawa School of Art has allowed him to take the roll of Student then to Technician, now Teacher and Instructor for General Interest Courses, Teens Courses and Outreach Programs. As for his instruction, he has trimmed a formula to teach composition and demonstrate visual art material properties. Above and beyond all that is the idea, which is the initial work and takes the most time. Through mistakes, trials and studies he thinks that art thrives in those thoughts before the true works of art can even begin. At this time, he is bridging his talents and styles to push in a new direction, the pursuit continues.
 

John Alexander Day

Lucia De Marinis

Mahshid Farhoudi

Born in Iran (1971) Mahshid Farhoudi immigrated to Canada in 1987. She attended York University and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Upon completion of the Drawing and Painting program, she then studied traditional methods of drawing and painting in Florence, Italy. Mahshid is a Canadian figurative painter who addresses issues of identity and belonging. Her work has been published alongside the poetry of Canadian writer and Trent university professor Kelly Young. Mahshid is a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts and teaches at the Ottawa School of Art. She is one of the founding members of Propeller Gallery and AWOL Gallery in Toronto. Mahshids’ work was featured on Canoe Live Television (2007). Her work can be found in private collections in Canada, Europe, Australia and the United States. www.mahshidfarhoudi.com

Andrew Fay

Andrew Fay was raised and educated in Ottawa and received his training at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Knowledgable in both acrylic and oil paints, his paintings centre on the human form. The figures are often nude, examining a gamut of physical and emotional drives. The narrative of his paintings in intentionally ambiguous. He creates a surreal atmosphere which invites the viewer to interact with the work of their own terms. Andrew has participated in numerous exhibitions, including shows at the Karsh-Masson Gallery, the Ottawa Art Gallery, and the Ottawa School of Art Gallery. His paintings can be found in civic and private collections. He is represented by La Petite Mort Gallery. 

Alex Fichera

Alex Fichera graduated form Ottawa University with a BFA. Her interests include psychology, feminism and identity, which she explores in her work using a variety of mediums to create images and sculptures. Alex has been working at the Ottawa School of Art for 8 years now and is currently teaching in the children’s department.

Cezary Gesikowski

Mauricio Flores Guarneros

Born in Mexico City, Mauricio completed his photography training at the Escuela Activa de Fotografia in 1996. In the following year a short-term course with photographer Charles Harbut of Magnum agency complemented his visual education. Since then he has developed a variety of historical, documentary, commercial, social, architectural, and artistic photography projects. His work has been published in specialized magazines, exhibit halls, catalogues, and presented in several galleries including the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, the Cultural Centre of the National University Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico and Canada, and in the Centro de Arte in the city of Holguin, Cuba. He has been teaching photography and delivering photography lectures and workshops since 1997 in Mexico, Cuba and Canada. His work is geared around the research and practice of historical, traditional, digital and specialized photographic processes.

Tami Galili Ellis

Tami Galili Ellis was born in Israel and immigrated to Canada in 1986. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Shortly thereafter, she joined the Ottawa of School of Art as an Instructor in the Children\'s Program. From 1995 to 1998, she returned to Israel with her family where she designed and delivered a very successful multimedia arts program to children in an alternative school. Her main passion is painting in oils. Since graduation, she has exhibited mostly in group exhibits and various galleries both in Israel and Ottawa.

Karen Goetzinger

Karen Goetzinger is an award winning artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fashion Design with a minor in Fine Arts. Since 2004, she has taught at the Ottawa School of Art and is a mentor/instructor in the Fine Crafts Certificate Program. Karen is known and sought after for her finely detailed mixed media textile works that are influenced by her roots in traditional quilt making, couture construction, and her life-long passion for the urban landscape. Her works have been exhibited by public and private galleries in Canada and the United States, in museums, at regional art exhibitions throughout North America, hang in private collections internationally and are featured in the recently released book "500 Art Quilts" (Lark Books a division of Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.).
www.karengoetzinger.com

Detlef Gotzens

Nathalie Grice

   
Nathalie Grice holds a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. She is a painter, mould maker and sculptor and has worked as a commercial artist for over 12 years. Currently, Nathalie works as an instructor at the Ottawa School of Art Orleans Campus, and the Outreach Program. She is also pursuing the Ontario College of Teacher's certification in order to teach arts at the high school level.

Deidre Hierlihy

Robert Hinchley

Robert Hinchley is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art. His paintings and prints have been shown in many exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Painting trips in Canada and especially the Ottawa Valley offer Rob an endless source of inspiration.His unique approach to printmaking combines painterly and experimental methods to this timeless graphic form. A selection of his prints was presented as gifts from Canada to the world leaders that attended the APEC summit in Vancouver.
 

Stephen Hutchings

 
Stephen Hutchings lives in Ottawa. He frequently works on large-scale projects such as billboard-sized drawings, outdoor sculptures, and both site-specific and gallery installations. His work has been extensively exhibited in public and commercial venues across Canada and is in many important corporate, public and private collections throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. His art practice includes painting, printmaking, photography, and video work. More information can be found on his website: www.stephenhutchings.com

Naz Ikramullah

  

Born in London, England, Naz holds a Fine Arts degree from Byam Shaw School, with post-graduation studies in Lithography from Slade in London. She studied etching with Michael Ponce de Leon, visiting Artist from Pratt Institute NY in Karachi. Her work is part of many collections both nationally and internationnally, and has also been exhibited worldwide. Naz designed and wrote a filmstrip for the NFB film "Making Faces" which won 1st prize for Art Education in Oakland California in 1989. She has recently completed a film regarding Cultural Life of Muslim Women of the Indian Sub-Continent. Naz teaches painting and printmaking at the Ottawa School of Art.

Agnes Ivan

Agnes Ivan was born in Budapest, Hungary. She has achieved recognition throughout Canada and Europe as an innovative modern artist. She creates colourful acrylic paintings with themes of modern women/men relationships, love, neighbours, and multicultural ideology. Her stories are told through acrylic paints on canvas and paper, her talent mirrored through every brush stroke. She is currently represented by Calligrammes Gallery on Murray Street in Ottawa\'s Bywark Market.
 

Marika Jemma

Aline Joanis

     
Aline grew up in a rural area and gets her inspiration from nature and from trips around the world. Attracted by the colours, she chose oil and acrylics as her media. She enrolled herself in classes at the Ottawa School of Art and kept improving her abilities through personal experiences, special workshops and plein-air painting sessions. Many exhibitions, solo and in group, were done successfully, and her work is shown in many galleries and also part of private collections in Canada, the USA and Europe. She is recognized by a few Art Associations of which she is member. "Working in the arts and developing my talents as an artist is my dream coming true."
 

Farouk Kaspaules

Farouk Kaspaules is an Iraqi-born Canadian artist with a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History & Theory from the University of Ottawa. Farouk has been exhibiting since 1989, and the events shaping the political and social situation in the Middle East has strongly influenced his work. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally including prestigious locations such as the 9th International Biennial in Cairo, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, London, England, France, Hungary, Brazil, Chile and of course Canada and Ottawa. He has also been the recipient of numerous grants over the yeas.

David Kearn

   
David was born in the U.K., and from an early age showed interest in both arts and sciences. Choosing a career first in Aerospace Engineering and then in business, he returned a few years ago to his love of art full time. From the outset, he was drawn to portraiture and the capture of something of the human condition. David has completed portrait commissions for clients in Montreal, the NCR and the U.K.. He is a recipient of the Ted Marshall Memorial Scholarship from the Ottawa Art Association and one of his portraits won second prize in the oil painting category at the Ottawa Art Association 2009 Annual Juried Awards Show. His watercolour portrait studies have been widely acclaimed and he was invited to demonstrate portraiture with the Ottawa Watercolour Society.
www.davidkearn.com

Shannon Kennedy (Cynosure Jewelry)

 
Shannon graduated in 1996 from the Ontario College of Art and Design and furthered her jewelry making skills by attending George Brown's Jewelry Arts Program from 1996 to 1998. She and her partner launched Cynosure Jewelry at Globe Studios in 2000. Recognition for her artwork has come in the form of several awards and nominations. Shannon finds the most enjoyment from designing her uniquely expressive pieces and exhibiting at galleries. www.cynosure-jewelry.com
 

Penelope Kokkinos

   
Penelope Kokkinos is a ceramic artist, curator, writer and instructor at the Ottawa School of Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Kokkinos' career has been transitory in nature, developing her art practice in a variety of cities across Canada and abroad. Her main areas of intrigue are contemporary ceramics, sculpture and drawing. She has acquired and MFA from Concordia University and a BFA from the University of Ottawa.

Yves Larocque

Yves M. Larocque holds B.A.s in Visual Arts and Theory of Arts from the University of Ottawa, a M.A. in Art History from the Université de Montréal, a D.E.A. and a Doctorate in Art History from the Sorbonne (Université de Paris I). He is also a painter, a renowned art instructor and a guest professor. In the course of the last 28 years at the School, Yves learned how to get the best from his students, knowing that only passion, dedication and goodness are the sole instruments of success; may it be in painting or art history. Content, concept and context are the key elements of his teaching, closely knit together with technique and know how. His works have been shown in Spain, Italy, and Canada. To know more about Yves click: http://www.walkthearts.com/_icscis/yves_larocque.shtml or you can subscribe to his blog at http://walkthearts.wordpress.com/
 

Elizabeth Lees

Michel Levesque

   

Michel Levesque is a commercial graphic artist living in Eastern Ontario who does illustration, comics and graphic design under his company Vec Royale Illustrative Studio. His personal practice explores how comics can be integrated into the community and collaborative arts and how the comic arts can be studied as a distinctive medium within the fine arts. He holds an Honours BFA in Visual Arts from the University of Victoria, and has interned at graphic novel and alternative comics publisher Drawn and Quarterly (Montréal). He has been an administrator for Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes in Gatineau, in which he continues to be a general member and graphic designer.

Heather MacDonald

André Martel

   
André lives and works in Ottawa. He studied graphic design and visual art at Algonquin College and Ottawa University. He was designer and art director before concentrating his efforts to visual art exclusively since 2000. His works were featured in several solo exhibitions in Ontario and Quebec. André Martel is a sculptor and installation artist who creates volumetric works which occupy space in various ways. Sometimes on the floor sometimes on the walls, the installation sculptures of Martel join together natural elements found in the environment and high tech elements recycled from various sources. In his studio, mechanisms and organisms are transformed into forms renewed under the actions of the artist. Like an engineering lab in his studio, the artist fuses elements apparently unrelated into inventions with unknown purposes. Influenced by Zen buddhism for the past 30 years, thematically his work explores the vary nature of Creativity and the role of continually evolving human consciousness.

Jenny McMaster

Jenny's work combines painting, textiles and stitch work. Her recent work employs the media of handmade paper and encaustics, examining social and personal history through clothing. Her exhibits In Transit and Archways and Stitchlines depicted urban spaces and explored architecture and clothing as second skins. Another series, Retrievals and Alterations, recovered the stories and faces of artist models and other half remembered women, through mixed media works. Her interest in fabric, external encasements and feminist concerns lead to a collaboration with fellow Stables artist Karina Bergmans in the Cake Show. McMaster has exhibited her work at Galerie Dentaire, VAV Gallery (Concordia University) and Gallery Shodan in Montreal, the Toronto Alternative Fashion Week, Gallery 1313, Engine Gallery and AWOL in Toronto. She has shown her work at Blink, Pukka Gallery, Art Guise, 7A Studio, Hintonburg Arts Park and Philip Craig Studio in Ottawa.

Don McVeigh

Sharon Mintz

Andrea Mossop

   

A rich balance of experience as an artist and as a teacher, with her background in art history and her passion for painting, has shaped Andrea Mossop's reputation for depth of knowledge and breadth of imagination in teaching and lecturing. Originally from Toronto, Andrea has a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, followed by advanced studies in drawing and painting from the Ontario College of  Art. Andrea teaches intensive two-day long workshops at the OSA Orleans Campus.

Paula Murray RCA

   
Paula Murray RCA, studied at Sheridan College and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Exhibiting since 1980, her exquisite porcelain sculptures have been described by art critic Nancy Baele as "fusions of near rupture and serene beauty, echoing nature and the human body in their forms." Living and working from Meech Lake, Quebec, she was elected to The Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts in 2006. Ottawa City Hall is home to her publically commissioned suspended sculpture "Nautilus". Murray has had works selected into the 54th Premio Faenza-International Ceramic Art Competition Italy, the 5th World Ceramic Biennale Korea, and the Canadian Pavillion for the Cheonju International Craft Biennale, Korea. Represented in museums and collections around the world, Murray's work is exhibited in the US, Germany, Italy and Canada. www.paulamurray.ca

Lindy Nadarajah

 

Lindy Nadarajah was born in Ottawa. She has always had an afinity for art. She is a dedicated member of the Ottawa Art community who continuously thrives to bring artists and their work to the forefront. Lindy is knowlegdeable to work with many type of mediums including Acrylics, Oils, Digital, and Sculptures. Her current focus is Portraiture, Landscapes, and still lifes using Acrylic. Lindy has sat on the Board of Directors for Visual Arts Center, Orleans and is a current member of the Executive Committee for ArtEast and also a member of Arts Ottawa East. Lindy is currently an Art Curator of Promenade Arteast Gallery in the Shenkman Center as well as the Cumberland Public Library. Her own paintings have been exhibited at many galleries and special events in the Ottawa region. She is an official artist of the Ottawa Tulip festival  and has hosted Arteast community events such as Queen Elizabeth Elementary Art Day.

Patti Normand

Patti Normand has been a professional artist for over twenty years. She has worked professionally for many years as a sculptor and model maker for area museums, notably the Children's Museum ad the Canadian Museum of Civilization where her creations can be seen throughout the museum. She has also maintained her own artistic practice of painting and sculpting, exhibiting in local galleries, and has a love of teaching and teaches on a regular basis for the Ottawa School of Art's Outreach Program.

ElBagir Osman

   
ElBagir Osman is a visual and media artist and educator. Originally from Sudan, he studied painting in the College of Fine Arts (Khartoum, Sudan), and earned a graduate degree in Scenic Design at the Academy of Arts (Cairo, Egypt). He has practiced art since many years and exhibited in several countries. Osman teaches art to students of all ages. ElBagir has also won several prizes for art and design. His works can be found in many institutes around the globe.

Britt Quinlan

Britt Quinlan teaches papermaking and bookbinding at the OSA. She began papermaking in 1993 and especially enjoys working with cooked fibres, clays, creative textures, and creating paper based, stone and wood sculptures. Her artwork has been shown regionally and is part of the National Library collection. Through her business, The Paperwright, Britt supplies products and builds equipment for papermakers worldwide.
www.paperwright.ca

Gilles Rainville

An artist and illustrator, Gilles has a passion for producing imaginative ideas. For the last nine years, he has been inspiring children in his classroom with art history, drawing, painting and sculpting techniques, as well as animation, cartooning and illustration lessons. He is a self-published author and a published illustrator. He aspires to pass on his passion for art to everyone he teaches. www.grainfed.wordpress.com

Erin Maura Robertson

Erin Robertson is a versatile, classically trained artist. She has worked as an artist and teacher in Ottawa for several years. Erin works in a variety of media including; oil, acrylic, watercolour, clay, plaster, papier-mache and wood. Her mixed media sculptures can be found in museum displays and in private collections throughout the world. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in public and private shows in Canada and Tanzania. Erin is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Guelph University.
 

Valerie Ryan

Valerie Ryan, B.F.A. (Queen's University), M.F.A. (University of Saskatchewan), has been teaching art to children and adults for over 25 years. From 1990 to 2009, Valeri worked as a very knowledgeable tour guide and an outstanding studio instructor at the National Gallery of Canada. She has received Artist in the School and projects grants. Valerie's colourful and expressive landscape paintings are in the collection of the City of Ottawa, External Affairs, Canada, as well as many corporate and private collections.

Krystyna Sadej

 
Krystyna is mostly known as a tapestry artist, and this woven medium has greatly influenced her mixed-media art. These texture-rich works reflect her own unique philosophy: "The best thing you can do as an artist, is to allow yourself looseness of expression. Run away from conventional forms and landscapes by creating new relationships with traditional technique, colour and media." Originally from Poland, she has exhibited her works internationally over the last 30 years, and her art is owned by collectors in Europe, Canada and the USA. www.krystynasadej.com

John Sadler

   

Born in Oshawa in 1931, John's artistic talent was recognized and encouraged by his father at an early age. He graduated from Ontario College of Art in 1954. As a young artist, he was inspired from travels to California and later from yearly visits visits to New York where he frequented many galleries and exhibits of leading contemporary abstract painters. It was in the 1970's that John's recognition as a talented and important sculptor and abstract painter began in Ottawa and then grew throughout the 80's and 90's. His work gained important recognition in Japan in 1995. While conducting art classes at the Ottawa School of Art for 40 years, he also focused on assisting students, artists and sculptors develop their careers. In April 2010, John was one of the three finalists for the Victor Togelsy award. This prestigious award recognizes the accomplishments of residents of Ottawa who have contributed substantially to enriching cultural life in the city.

Tricia Wilmot Savoie

      
Tricia has a deep rooted passion for colour and light, and a great love of painting "en plein-air". Her paintings have a life of their own, with a subtle strenght to draw the viewer right into the canvas itself. Her works, which could be described as contemporary impressionism, now hang in private and corporate collections in the United States, Brazil, Australia, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany and across Canada. http://www.twilmotsavoie.ca 

Ruth Secunda

A visual and performance artist returned to her hometown of Ottawa in 2002. Prior to leaving, she helped to establish “85 Clarence,” a noted artist cooperative that contributed to a growing local visual arts community. After five years in Montreal, Ruth was awarded a Canada Council Writing Grant, which took her to the Banff School of Fine Arts. Following the completion of her project, she remained a Banff resident for the next 16 years. She helped to establish the Banff Arts Council, Banff First Night Celebrations and various visual arts projects. She also received a Governor General’s Caring Canadian award for her community work in 2001. Since her return to Ottawa, she became a Board member of the Council for the Arts in Ottawa. She currently teaches at the Ottawa School of Art where she conducts mixed media classes to adults and children. She is actively involved in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Blair Sharpe

Blair Sharpe completed his “A” Level in Fine Art (University of London Board) at Kent School, Germany and a special Post “A” Fine Arts Programme while living in Düsseldorf, Germany from 1971–73, followed by studies at the Ottawa School of Art (then the Ottawa Municipal Art Centre), notably with Richard Gorman and the late James Boyd. He has exhibited widely, with numerous solo shows in Ottawa and Toronto, including a major mid-career survey at the Ottawa Art Gallery in 1989 as well as group shows across Canada and abroad. His work is found in many public, corporate and private collections notably the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa Art Gallery, Carleton University Art Gallery, City of Ottawa and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. Blair teaches painting and drawing at the Ottawa School of Art, and has contributed writings on art and art practice to a number of publications. While his work is formally centred in the traditions of abstract painting, a profound affinity to nature and natural process pervades his work. www.blairsharpe.com

Ranajit Sinha

Gerald Smith

    
Gerald Smith received his B.F.A. at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and then attained a Master's Degree in Studio Painting at the University of Saskatchewan. For the past 14 years, Gerald has been a regular instructor at the Ottawa School of Art. During the summer of 1999, he taught a course in landscape painting in France under the auspices of ICSCIS, called "Atelier Monet", covering some of the places painted by Claude Monet. He also taught art appreciation for 6 years for the City of Ottawa. He has participated in numerous art exhibitions across Canada and is represented in many public and private collections. His teaching philosophy stresses the fundamentals of good craftsmanship but he also believes in letting the individual student develop his or her own style and approach to making art. To that end, he regards himself largely as a facilitator in the creative process.
 

Rosy Somerville

 
Rosy received a foundation in fine arts in England, and worked in graphic design before immigrating to Canada. She paints in oil, acrylic and watercolour, and teaches watercolour painting. "Painting is for me a meditation. I love the challenge, the unique movements of the medium, the contrasts of control and unpredictability, the total focus it demands. I enjoy the tension between working within rules, and allowing intuition to speak. I work both en plein-air and in the studio. Through the play of light and dark, of colours, shapes, textures, lines, the defined and the undefined, the stated and the implied I like to capture something of the unique essence that defines everything created."

Gayle Thomas

   

Gayle Thomas was born in Montreal where she attended the École des Beaux Arts and subsequently Concordia University from which she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. For over twenty years, Gayle has worked as an animation filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada as well as in the private sector. During this time, Gayle won many international awards for her films that cover a wide range of subjects and techniques. At the moment, she is living in Ottawa and freelancing as an animation filmmaker and graphic artist. The School is happy to welcome Gayle as an instructor to the Animation Certificate Program.
 

Jim Thomson RCA

 

Jim Thomson was born in 1953, Ottawa, Canada and has been creating in clay since 1972. In 2008 he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. Jim has exhibited his work across Canada, in the UK, China, Japan, The Netherlands, Italy, as well as in Columbus, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He has lectured at The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Ontario College of Art, Concordia University, Sheridan College of Art & Design, Queen\'s University, The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, The National Gallery of Canada, and The Burlington Arts Centre. Jim’s publicly commissioned work titled On Top of the World can be seen at the former Regional Headquarters in Ottawa, now the new City Hall. At the old Ottawa City Hall on Sussex Drive, Ottawa, his commissioned work of 12 Benches can also be viewed. His work is also found in many private and corporate collections. www.jimthomson.ca 

Guillermo Trejo

   
Guillermo Trejo was born in Mexico City and has a BFA from Bellas Arts School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking. His first subject after emigrating to Canada in 2007 was a serie of drawings inspired by characters from Canadian newspapers. As he tries to understand the "multicultural" landscape in Canada, he likes to draw plants and make prints of people. His profound understanding of art history is reflected in his contemporary work. He currently teaches printmaking and drawing at the Ottawa School of Art.
 

Mary Ann Varley

 
Native from England, Mary Ann Varley began teaching in 1968 in Quebec City. When she moved to Ottawa with her family, she taught at Ashbury College where she was invited to develop an art program for the Junior School and later the Senior School. She worked there for thirty years. Mary Ann is a life long learner, with a Master of Arts in Art Education (Concordia), a B.Ed. (Ottawa) and a B.A. in Fine Arts (Concordia). She is now an active member of Arteast and instructor at the Ottawa School of Art.
 

 Yvon Villarceau

   

Yvon Villarceau, BFA, BEd, is a multi-disciplinary visual artist who immigrated to Canada in 1972 from Haïti. He curated and exhibited at the African-Canadian Colorlux Studio, one of the fist artist-run centres in Winnipeg: was an artist in residence at teh St Norbert for the Arts; represented Canada at Dak'Art Bienale in Dakar; Senegal and Videogram in Helsinki, Finland. His artwork can be found in collections of the City of Ottawa and the Ministry of External Affairs as well as online with Sawvideo.com and Artengine.ca. He has won many awards and grants from provincial and national arts councils, and for many years, was a popular Educator-Guide at the National Gallery of Canada, giving school tours and workshops.
 

Sean Walsh

After years of working with his hands, Sean Walsh has taken the enormous step of following his passion of building fine furniture and enrolled in a full year of instruction at Rosewood Studios in Almonte, Ontario where he studied with some of the finest furniture designers and builders in the business today. His goal is to create one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture that are not only functional but beautiful. His work has been displayed at Snapdragon Gallery in Ottawa and at several design events over the years, and has recenly won first and second price at the Wooden Object competition at the Ottawa Home Show. Sean has also taught workshops and classes from coast to coast on the use of traditional hand tools and furniture building. 
 

Lindsay Watson

    

Lindsay Watson is an emerging artist (currently residing in Ottawa) who works with oil paint, mixed media and photographs to "construct" alternative truths to real-life situations. She had long been fascinated by the connection between story-telling and history, both small and large scale, and tries to reconcile that in her imagery by making works that can be read in a number of "true" - but often conflicting - ways.

Russell Yuristy