General Program - bios, work

A

Gregory Abraszko

Peter Adamakos

Aida Alves

B

Morton Baslaw

Line Bouchard

Dana Brezina

C

Fabio Cattelan

Richard Charlebois

Audrey Churgin

David Clendining

Bryna Cohen

Grant Collins

Erika Connor

Vanessa Coplan

D

Chantal Dahan

Dawn Dale

Adam Fraser Davidson

Lucia De Marinis

F

Andrew Fay

Mahshid Farhoudi

Alex Fichera

Mauricio Flores Guarneros

G

Tami Galili-Ellis

Leonard Gerbrandt

Kathy Gillis

H

Deidre Hierlihy

Dipna Horra

Robert Hinchley

Robert Hyndman

                

I

Agnes Ivan

Naz Ikramullah

K

Maggie Knaus

Tomoko Kodama

L

Yves Larocque

Pamela Cockcroft-Lasserre

Elizabeth Lees

M

Heather MacDonald

Erin Maura Robertson

Natasha Mazurka

Don McVeigh

N

Lindy Nadarajah

Patti Normand

Q

Britt Quinlan

S

John Sadler

Ruth Secunda

Blair Sharpe

Gerald Smith

T

Gayle Thomas

Jim Thomson RCA

W

Carol Weidman

Y

Russell Yuristy



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

Adam Fraser Davidson

I developed my talents early as I used art as a source of fun and I still do. At the age of 15 I began to become fascinated with Abstraction, Odd Illustrations, Native Art and Symbols, at that time I began to create my own. Art took a new meaning as I became almost too fascinated as to where my art and its realizations had brought me. 
At the age of 18 I was determined to not ever focus on the traditional, figurative or the realistic at all anymore and I began the pursuit of working in any medium, written, painted or otherwise as an abstractionist.  
All of my Post Secondary education and extra curricular with other artists has been in my hometown of Ottawa, the Ottawa Region and via the Internet. The Ottawa School of Art has allowed me to take the roll of Student then to Technician, now Teacher and Instructor for General Interest Courses, Teens Courses and Outreach Programs.
As for my Instruction I have trimmed a formula to teach composition and demonstrate visual art material properties. As the attempt, approach and usage of materials are important to the process, the work it self. Above and beyond all that is the idea, which is the initial work and takes the most time. Through mistakes, trials and studies I think that art thrives in those thoughts before the true works of art can even begin.
For now I am verging on a new territory with my own art unlike my other previous attempts. At this time I am bridging my talents and styles to push in a new direction, the pursuit continues.

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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.

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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 most favorite, painting. The mediums used in her paintings include acrylic, oil and mixed media.
Aida’s work has been constantly changing through out 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.

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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.

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André Breau

 

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André Coutu

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

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Andrew Fay

Andrew Fay was raised and educated in Ottawa and received his training at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His work continues to focus on figurative subject matter. The paintings centre on the human image, examining a gamut of physical and emotional drives. The figures are often nude, not to portray excessive sexuality but rather to convey the essence of the human spirit. The nudity in his work also reflects his appreciation and affection of the nude as found in the great masterpieces throughout art history. The narrative of his paintings is often intentionally ambiguous. He creates a surreal atmosphere which invites the viewer to interact with the work on their own terms, with minimal direction.
 He has participated in numerous exhibitions, most notably at the Karsh-Masson Gallery, the Ottawa Art Gallery, and the Ottawa School of Art Gallery. Andrew’s paintings can be found in important civic and private collections in Ottawa, and his work is currently on view at the La Petite Mort Gallery.

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Audrey Churgin

Audrey Churgin works in a variety of media. Represented by Wallack Galleries, she has created an extensive collection of pastel paintings, as well as oil paintings, graphite drawings, and collaborative works produced with young children. Her current work is a combination of play-writing and audio production. Her latest audio project is included in the bookmobile Project, and soon will be exhibited on-line in the virtual gallery, Artengine.
Audrey has been featured in many solo exhibitions in Ottawa, Toronto, Washington DC, Scottsdale, and in numerous group shows across the US and Canada. She has an MFA from Vermont College, a B.F.A. and a post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education from Concordia University, and studied drawing and painting at the Art Student's League of New York, the New School of Art in Toronto, and the Banff School of Fine Arts.
Audrey has been teaching at the Ottawa School of Art since 1984. Among the many courses she has taught are Foundation Drawing, Visual Foundations, Inter-Media, Intermediate Drawing, Painting, and Pastels.
Since 1998, she has served as a Board member at Canadian Artists' Representation (CARFAC), for Ontario and Nationally. She recently accepted the position as its National Executive Director.

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Blair Sharpe

Born in Montréal in 1954, Blair Sharpe has lived in various locations across Canada and in Germany. After settling in Ottawa in 1973, he enrolled at the Ottawa Municipal Art Centre (now
the Ottawa School of Art) and studied with Richard Gorman and James Boyd. He has been working full time as an artist since 1974. In addition to his painting, Blair has actively participated
in the cultural scene by writing articles, serving on a number of boards and committees, and teaching at the Ottawa School of Art. He has held numerous solo exhibitions, mainly 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 more recent solo exhibitions were Imaginary Rivers at Wallack Galleries in 1998 and New Angles at the Ottawa School of Art Gallery in 2000. Blair's work is represented in many public, corporate and private collections. His painting River Keeper is on permanent exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Oslo, Norway. Public commissions include the mural Ouananiche at the Jack Purcell Community Centre and a floor work, River's Invitation at the Smyth Transitway Station in Ottawa. Blair teaches painting and drawing at the Ottawa School of Art, and has contributed art criticism and other writings to a number of publications. While his work is formally centered in the traditions of abstract painting, a profound affinity to nature and natural process pervades his work.
His website can be found at www.blairsharpe.com

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Britt Quinlan

Britt Quinlan is a papermaker, printmaker and teacher at the Ottawa School of Art. She began papermaking in 1993 and especially enjoys working with cooked fibres, clays, creative textures, and low relief sculpture. Her artwork has been shown regionally and is part of the National Library collection. Currently, Britt is intalglio printing a second artist book with Susan Feindel. Papermaking and artistic bookbonding courses have also taken Britt to Cape Breton Island and Virginia. Through her business, The Paperwright, she supplies and builds equipment papermakers throughout North America.

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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. In 2000, she had two solo exhibitions, one at Galerie St-Laurent + Hill in Ottawa and the other at David Ariss Fine Arts in St. John's, Newfoundland. She is also represented by Painted City Gallery in Toronto. Bryna's work can found in several private and public collections, among them the Canada Council Art Back and the City of Ottawa.
The Ottawa School of Art is pleased to welcome Bryna as an Instructor in the Children's Program in which she recently piloted the successful Multimedia Fun for Family and Friends course.

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Carol Weidman

Born in Montreal, Carol graduated from McGill University, BA ’64, and attended L’École des beaux Arts and L’Institut des Arts Appliques (Montreal). In New York city, she attended the Art Students League and in Washington D.C. she studied at the American University and had two successful solo shows (1977, 1978). In 1982, Carol embarked on a unique series entitled “Dancers in Motion”, which was exhibited in 1985, 1987, 1990, and 1993 in major public shows held in Le Salon of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. She has had numerous successful commercial solo shows in Montreal, Kingston, and Toronto on the same theme.
She is currently evolving a new series that interprets Tai Chi movements. Since 1979, Carol has been an instructor at the Ottawa School of Art. Specializing in watercolour and lifedrawing.
For over the past two years, Carol has been interpreting her figures on large-scale paper. She uses highly coloured and varied pastels. Currently it is the subject of her intermediate course: “Adventures in Drawing the Figure”. Her “Dare to draw the Figure” Program is intended for rank beginners.

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Chantal Dahan

Chantal Dahan was born in Marseille, France, and now lives and works in Hull, Quebec. She obtained a B.A. in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1993 and an M.A. in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in 2000.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at several Quebec galleries, including the UQAM Gallery, the Centre d'exposition de la Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal in Montréal, the Centre d'exposition de Val d'Or, the Centre d'exposition de Rouyn-Noranda, and Galerie Montcalm, and Axe Néo-7 in Hull.
Chantal has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Quebec, Ontario, France and Korea including Passart at the Centre d'exposition de Rouyn-Noranda (Quebec) and Body Language at the Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa (Ontario) last year.
Her recent video work, Terra-Terra, was presented at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in Montreal in 2000. Chantal is a member of many art collectives and her work is included in several public and private collections. She has been teaching children, teens and adults at the Ottawa School of Art since 1996 in the areas of drawing, painting, sculpture and video animation.

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Dana Brezina

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

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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.

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Dawn Dale

 

Dawn Dale has been an instructor at the Ottawa School of Art since 1990, teaching sculpture, in both the General and Diploma Progams (Basic Sculpture, Modeling the Figure in Wax and Clay, The Classical and Comtemporary Bust, Sculptures I, II, Intermediate Sculpture and Advanced Studio). A BFA graduate from the University of Ottawa, she has exhibited across Canada and abroad.
She is an active member of the arts community and has been in the classroom with MASC, ArtSmarts and Les Artistes à l’école. Her work can be found at www.dawndale.com and www.aregeebee.net/dawndale/.

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Deidre Hierlihy

Deidre received her B.A. and Bachelor of Education from Queen's University. Upon completion of her studies, she received a bursary from Graff Centre de Conception Graphique in Montreal where she worked as an artist in residence for one year. She continued her printmaking studies in Japan, learning Japanese wood art from Akiru Kurosake. She has exhibited her prints in Japan, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa.
Deidre has been teaching for 16 years, 13 of which have been at at the Ottawa School of Art in the Diploma, General, and Children's Program. She is currently the Coordinator of the Children's Department.

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Dipna Horra

Dipna Horra’s practice is based in mixed media explorations and interdisciplinary collaborations. She responds to her environment
through paintings, drawings, photography, and textile sculptures involving sound and video projections. As an art director, she produces
independent performance events. Horra has worked in architecture and art education in New York and Canada. She has exhibited her creations
in Canada, New York, Dubai, U.A.E. and London, U.K.

www.dipnahorra.com

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Don McVeigh

An accomplished watercolourist, printmaker and illustrator, Don McVeigh has lived and worked in Ottawa since 1985. His work is found in many public and private collections in Canada and abroad. He holds a B.F.A. from the University of Alberta,1972 and an M.F.A. from the University of Regina, 1978.
Don teaches Beginner's Drawing at the Ottawa School of Art.

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Elizabeth Lees

Elizabeth Lees is a mixed-media artist who works in photography, acrylics and printmaking. She has a degree in Fine Arts (Honours) in Photography from the University of Ottawa and has photographed for the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Her passion for the arts has also led her to teach Visual Arts in High School. Her work reflects her interest in nature and the surroundings she discovers in new places throughout Canada and foreign countries.
Elizabeth has taught many multi-media courses to a variety of ages for the past four years, including Introduction to Cartooning and Animation at the Ottawa School of Art.

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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.

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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.

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Fabio Cattelan

Fabio Cattelan has taught art in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. He is presently with the OCDSB as an Art, and 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.
Currently, works produced by Fabio’s students are on display at the Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Fabio’s own 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.

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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.

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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. At both institutions, he received many awards and bursaries. Upon graduation, he taught at community colleges throughout Saskatchewan for two years, followed by five years teaching Fine Art at the degree level at the University of Saskatchewan as part of its off campus program.
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.
Gerald has completed four murals to date and is currently working on a large 40' x 6' mural, containing over 60 figures, for a recently constructed church in Kanata. 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.

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Grant Collins

Grant Collins is a visual artist living in Montreal whose image making practices use the techniques and conventions of both comics and fine arts to experiment with distinctions between looking at drawn and painted images and reading them. He has a BFA in Studio Arts, and a Masters degree in Media Studies, which he’s recently received from Concordia University’s Communications department. While working extensively as a scenic painter for film and theater, where he has specialized in large format high-realist painting, Grant has nurtured a keen interest in experimenting with the combination and sequencing of words and pictures, and is equally enthusiastic about working with students towards developing their own creative interests with comics and art.

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Gregory Abraszko

Is an Ottawa based visual artist and designer whose tools include canvas, oil paint, photographic camera, computer and drafting board. Born and educated in Poland, he was trained in the fields of art, design and art history, graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a Masters degree in Fine Arts in Design.
In 1977, Gregory made Canada his home and started work as a conceptual and interior designer at an architectural firm in Edmonton, then later at the Nickel Arts Museum in Calgary. In 1981, he joined the Canadian Government Expositions Centre as a designer responsible for government-sponsored exhibits and trade shows, some of his work received international awards and recognition.
Since 1997, Gregory has been sharing his experience with the students of the School of Industrial Design at Carleton University, where he is a part-time lecturer in the areas of studio, exhibit design, visual communication, colour and form, photography and digital imaging. Art and photographic exhibitions include: 2008 and 2007 Festival X, Ottawa, Canada; 2005 Mayor's Art Festival, Ottawa, Canada; Calligrammes Art Gallery, Art and Photography Collection of the Canadian Museum of Aviation, Ottawa, Canada;  private collections in Canada, USA and Europe. His clients include Carleton University, Health Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Embassy of the United States, US State Department, Canadian Pediatric Society, Mitel, March Networks, Industry Canada, Ernst & Young, and International Association of Fire Fighters.
 

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Heather MacDonald

I began pursuing formal Western calligraphy & fine art courses in the late 1970’s in Montreal and I’ve been privileged to study with internationally known calligraphers & painters since that time. Travel and Eastern philosophies are a major influence on my artistic style and I often incorporate text, poetry or Asian elements into my work. My long-standing fascination with Asian art forms led me to study with both Japanese and Chinese Sumi-e painters. At the same time, I enjoy the discipline and the freedom that Western lettering offers from a formal as well as an abstract perspective.  I love teaching the appreciation of calligraphy from both the Eastern and Western perspectives; I believe the most important attitude we should cultivate is “Beginner’s Mind” which allows us to approach learning without judgement. My artistic journey has taught me that, like yin and yang, each style can complement the other and both are necessary to unify understanding.  My academic background includes diplomas in Computer Science and Museum science; however, art is what informs all aspects of my life.  In turn, all aspects of life inform my art!  www.yohaku.wetpaint.com

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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

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John Sadler

A native of Oshawa, Ontario, John received his education at Carleton University, the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art. He now resides just outside of Almonte where he has his studio.
"In my career as a sculptor and abstract painter, I have enjoyed the experience of teaching art. With the creative learning process, there is always a strong dialogue between myself and the student. I try to bring to the students a way of experiencing and looking at art by sharing with them my own study and experience of art created by the leaders of the art world, specifically New York and Europe-based artists and their unique approach to their work."

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Kathy Gillis

Kathy Gillis worked as a commercial artist for seven years. She then enrolled in the Visual Arts programme at the University of Ottawa and graduated with an Honours B.A. in 1979. After graduation she started teaching art, established a studio, and began exhibiting her work. During this period she explored several themes in mixed media, painting, installation, and land-based art. She participated in over a hundred exhibitions and her work is in several public collections. Since 2003 Kathy Gillis has been creating work for an international group of artists. Their exhibitions, called " Truth Compassion Tolerance", have been shown extensively in USA and Canada, while high-quality prints continue to be shown outside of North America reaching over one hundred locations on several continents. These works are about the phenomena that has become known as Falun Gong. Kathy Gillis continues to make work for this important collection, and she teaches Visual Foundations and Traditional Oil Painting Techniques at the Ottawa School of Art.

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Leonard Gerbrandt

Leonard Gerbrandt was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. After working in commercial art, he studied at the University of Guelph, majoring in Fine Arts with specialization in printmaking and art history, and graduating from there in 1970 with an Honours B.A.
Leonard has taught at the Ottawa School of Art and in high schools since 1972, aside from periods during which he lived in Bangladesh and Kenya. In 1973, with the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council, he designed and constructed a pneumatic-hydraulic printing press at Canterbury High School.
He has been a Board member of the Ottawa School of Art and was instrumental in setting up its Printmaking Studio, which is named after him. His work has been in regional traveling exhibitions with the Manitoba Arts Council and CSPW. He is represented in collections such as The National Film Board, the Agnes Etherington Gallery, City of Ottawa, Royal Trust, The Canadian Centre for Managerial Development as well as numerous private collections in Canada and abroad.

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Lindy Nadarajah

Lindy Nadarajah was born in Ottawa in 1963. 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. Art has always been a part of her life since very early on when she excelled in various mediums during her high school years. Continuing on with 4 years of formal training in Vocation Art followed by over a decade of teaching adults and children alike.  
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 the 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. Lindy is proud to be an art teacher for the Ottawa School of Art and looks forward to continuing teaching art in the Ottawa Region.

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Line Bouchard

Line was born in January 1961, near the Saint-Laurence Seaway in the province of Québec, Canada.
Line’s artistic journey began in 1985 in a pictorial organisation class given by Geneviève Belzile at the Outaouais College. The medium used, which was watercolour, allowed her to express spontaneity and vitality as well as gentleness and tenderness.
In 1989, Line participated in a workshop given by Béatrice Gothcheck. In this workshop, many experienced watercolour artists inspired her to progress in her art.
In November 1995, she honoured the technique of watercolour in a solo exhibition, with 24 paintings, at the Théâtre de l’Île in Gatineau.
Since the fall of 1999, Line’s passion has veered towards oriental painting and calligraphy. As a student of Tomoko Kodama, at the Ottawa School of Art, she learned to handle the oriental brush using breath, rhythm and body movement. Using black or color ink, she sketches, using a minimum of strokes to reveal the essence of the subject.
In the summer of 2001, she participated in a one-week condensed course called “Big Brush Portrait”. This course was given by Lou Charton at the St-Laurence College in Brockville, Ontario.
In December 2002, she participated in an exhibition with the YOHAKU Group at the Japanese embassy in Ottawa.

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Lucia De Marinis

Lucia De Marinis graduated from a five-year Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1984, where she majored in painting. She was given advanced standing to third year upon admission to the program, and was selected for the National Dean’s List in 1984. She was a finalist for the prestigious Gund Award competition at graduation. Lucia also has a Bachelor of Arts in Italian Literature from Carleton University, and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome with the assistance of a scholarship from the Italian government.  
Lucia has been teaching at the Ottawa School of Art since 1988 and in the Department of Part-Time Studies at Algonquin College since 1994. She was a faculty member in the Department of Visual and Creative Arts at St. Lawrence College from 1988 to 1991. In 2006 she was the recipient of the first Instructor of the Year Award at the Ottawa School of Art. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo, group, and juried shows in Canada and the USA and is represented in corporate, public, and private collections.

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Mahshid Farhoudi

Mahshid Farhoudi attended a variety of educational institutions including York University and the Ontario College of Art and Design, between 1992 and 1997, culmination with a term at the 2001 Charles H.Cecil Studio in Florence, Italy.
She is an active artist with both solo and group exhibitions that have taken place in cities such as the AWOL Gallery in New City, Aprilarte in Tuscany, Italy, Senza Parola , Junction art Festival , Toronto Webpuccino Gallery , Florence, Itlay, and International Biennale di Arte, in Rome, Italy.
Services include Co-curator of Arte Firenze, Sunny Brook Gala Event, North York, Ont. Canada: Ottawa School of Art instrucor: materials and processes, Gestural painting; and 1998-2000 Teaching Assistant, Florence Campus, Ontario College of Art and Design, Italy.
Mahshid is an Iranian-born Internationl Visual Artist, whose works have been supported by the Canada Counsel for the Arts and her collaborative work BREATH has been published through Palabras Press in Ontario.
www.mahshidfdimarco.com

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Maggie Knaus

Maggie Knaus is a professional photographer and artist originally from Washington, DC. Her favorite topic is documenting her children and her extensive travels, using many non-traditional photographic processes in her work. She is a photo teacher (in Ottawa at SPAO and OSA)a commercial photographer (for the White House Historical Association, and many stock agencies), and an artist (with shows in galleries across the US).  In Ottawa, she has shown at the Bruyere Gallery and at La Petit Mort Gallery.

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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.
In 1999 he enrolled in the visual arts program at the Ottawa School of Art where he was awarded two scholarships. After completing his art studies there he was awarded a research fellowship by the National Gallery of Canada to develop a digital procedure that serves conservators today in photo-documenting their restoration treatments. He has also juried exhibitions and participated in numerous photography shows as well as presented several alternative photography projects locally and abroad. He is presently working to develop an ecological alternative to the traditional B&W photo darkroom.
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.

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Morton Baslaw

A graduate of the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, Morton Baslaw studied watercolour with Ruth Van Sickle Ford. He fashions his paintings using a technique based on the interpretive realism in still life, landscapes, cityscapes, and seascapes.
Morton's work is widely exhibited throughout Canada with the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Ontario Society of Artists. He is also the founding president of the Ottawa Watercolour Society.
Morton is a winner of the G. Allan Burton Award, has exhibited with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Cultural Branch of the Government of Alberta, Visual Arts Ottawa, Wallack Galleries of Ottawa and Studio Colleen, and is represented in national and private collections.
Morton is also a recognized designer, lecturer, and a veteran instructor on the faculty of the Ottawa School of Art.

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Natasha Mazurka

Natasha Mazurka holds an Masters in Fine Arts from Concordia University with a concentration in painting. Preceding Concordia she received her Honours BA from McMaster University. She is currently living and working in Ottawa.
Natasha has exhibited her work and is in collections both locally and internationally. In 2006 she was the recipient of the Brucebo Scholarship for a three month fine art residency in Sweden. She has taught a number of studio courses, including painting, drawing, and encaustic in Ontario and Quebec, including Concordia University.
The methods and materials Natasha currently employs span over a variety of disciplines.
Currently her work deals with installations that incorporate found objects, collage, encaustic and oil painting. With these materials her work isolates patterns of souvenir culture and collecting to illustrate Canadians as consumers and subjects of transnational mythmaking. Projects in development include the cultivation of an interdisciplinary national souvenir collection, as well as a collaborative Swedish-Canadian art and text project.

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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. Collections: Library of Congress, Washington DC, National Gallery of Jordan, CMC Permanent Collection New Delhi, Senate, Islamabad, Ottawa Civic Hospital, & others. Exhibitions: Solo: Ottawa School of Art, '94, Cymroza Gallery, Bombay, '90, Art Heritage, Delhi, '89, Indus Gallery, Karachi , '87. Group: Bradford Art Gallery UK '94/'95, Women Artists of Pakistan, National Gallery of Jordan, 3 Women Artists, '92, 2nd 7 3rd Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints (invited) India '91/'95.
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.

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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.

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Patti Normand

Patti Normand has been a professional artist for the last twenty years. She has done extensive work for the Children’s Museum, designing and creating interesting visual elements. She also teaches art classes to children in the community, as part of the Ottawa School of Art’s Outreach program She lives and works in Hintonburg, and exhibits her paintings in the region.

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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.
Peter has served three terms as President of the Society of Film Makers, the association grouping all film professionals, and has also served as Vice President of ASIFA Canada, been on the Board of the Genie Awards, the Advisory Board of the Federal Government for film, in addition testifying before Parliament's Committee on the Arts. He has written extensively on animation and film and continues to write regular articles. Peter wrote Canada's first comic strip to be syndicated across the country in both daily black and white and color weekend formats. He has taught animation in various schools in both Montreal and Ottawa and has been an animation instructor at the Ottawa School of Art since the Animation Certificate Program was launched in 1999.

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Richard Charlebois

“I want to create art that will be representative of the concern for wildlife, natural resources and historic sites surrounding us, by using woods that would otherwise be destroyed or discarded as waste and use this wood to give new awareness of the beauty of life.”
A nature enthusiast at heart, Richard Charlebois has a background in Drafting and Electro-Mechanical, but after obtaining his Marquetry Certificate in 2005, he hasn't looked back since. A member of Arts Ottawa East and a Pictorial Marquetry instructor at the Ottawa School of Art, Orleans Campus, Charlebois brings his attention to detail and appreciation for the beaty of nature to his students through the art of using inlaid wood and Pyrography to create a three dimensional effect.

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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.

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Robert Hyndman

Robert Hyndman is a distinguished painter and teacher whose contribution to Canadian art has extended over many decades. He began his training at the Central Technical School in Toronto with Carl Schaffer and Charles Goldhammer. Upon graduation, he continued his studies at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, England while freelancing as an illustrator of children's books.
At the onset of the Second World War, Robert returned to Canada and soon after joined the RCAF. He continued to sketch and paint throughout the war and it wasn't long before he attracted the attention of the Canadian War Art Program. In 1944, Robert was appointed Official War Artist; he created 68 war paintings (most of which are portraits) in a year and a half.
In 1947, Robert set up a studio in Ottawa. Critics were quick to acclaim his talent; his war paintings became the launching pad for a career that has included numerous commissions, exhibits and several years of teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts and The Ottawa School of Art. Figure painting and drawing have always been his passion. His portrait painting has taken him around the world and has included a broad range of subjects from society matrons and government officials to businessmen and military personnel.

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Russell Yuristy

Russell Yuristy (1936-) is a Saskatchewan-born painter, sculptor and printmaker who has lived in Ottawa for twenty years.  He graduated with an MFA from the University of Wisconsin and taught at the University of Regina.  More recently he has also taught at the University of Ottawa and has given several printmaking courses at the Ottawa School of Art.  His commissioned sculptures include "Switch Hitter" at the former Ottawa Lynx stadium and "Saskatchewan Rain" at the CBC building, Regina.  In printmaking he works primarily with large-scale woodcuts, drypoint and etchings.  Russell has had numerous solo exhibitions (Regina, Lethbridge, Montreal and Ottawa, among others). His work is in many public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, Mackenzie Art Gallery, and the Ottawa Art Gallery.  

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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.

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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.

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Tomoko Kodama

Tomoko has been teaching at the Ottawa School of Art and in the Ottawa area for over 30 years. She developed a non-traditional method called the "Breathing Method" for brush calligraphy and painting. She encourages students to create their own style by adapting this principle to sumi-e, watercolour, mixed media, oil, etc. Her work and her students' work can be seen at www.storm.ca/~kodama.

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Vanessa Coplan

Since receiving her MA in art history this past spring, Vanessa has been continuing to work on her recent series entitled, The Living House. It is a composite of written and and visual pieces that compares the domestic life of humans and animals, highlighting the fact that what separates Us from Them is often smaller than we believe. She resides in her own home here in Ottawa that is very much alive with her two small kids, he husband, and a flurry of activity from (uninvited) furry and feathery friends.

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Yves Larocque

World scholar in Canadian Surrealism, Yves Larocque, with bachelors' degree in Visual Arts and Theory and History of Art from the University of Ottawa, a Master degree in History of Art from the Université de Montréal, a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies and a Doctorate in Art History and Archeology from the Sorbonne (Université de Paris 1), is also a painter and consultant in the fields of visual arts and architecture. His studies provided him the opportunity to work with renown professors such as François-Marc Gagnon, René Payant, José Vovelle and, Jacques Derrida at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (ÉHÉSS) in Paris.
As well as demonstrating extensive knowledge in the survey of Art History, Yves Larocque specialized in Surrealism and Canadian Art. His doctoral thesis deals with the mediology of Surrealism in English speaking Canada. He has been teaching the afore mentioned disciplines at the Ottawa School of Art for 20 years. Additionally as a known painter, whose works have raised several polemics, he is a respected teacher of drawing and painting.
His participation in the artistic domain goes beyond the afore mentioned activities. Many times, his voice has been heard on the waves of the Société Radio-Canada (S.R.C.) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (C.B.C.) as an art critic and historian. TVOntario also produced a short program on his works, and the Rodger's Network invited him to discuss Canadian Art. Furthermore, as an art historian regularly publishes in periodicals such as La Vie des Arts (Montreal), Liaison (Ottawa) and Histoire de l'Art and Médium (Paris), RACAR (Canada). His conferences in art history brought him throughout Canada, France, the Neatherlands, Colombia, and the United States. He is also a participant in the important annual conference meetings such of the UAAC and ACFAS.
He curated Mikihiro Nishimatsu and Robert Hyndman; 50 years of painting. Catalogues of both retrospectives can be found at the National Library of Canada and the library of the National Gallery of Canada.His paintings have appeared in several group exhibitions, most significally Arteder 82 at the Muestra d'Arto Grafica of Bilbao in Spain where he represented Canada. His works have also been shown in Rome, Toronto, Montréal and Ottawa ; many are part of private collections. Press reviews often have lauded the pertinence of his work.

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