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Check out all the super talented artists who participated in this years auction!
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Scott Abbott has a Bachelor of Arts University of Guelph Specialized Honours – Fine Arts
and a Bachelor of Education University of Western Ontario. Scott is primarily a landscape painter who works both on location and on larger pieces in the studio. He works mostly in oils and acrylics. Subject matter for his work comes from painting trips across Northern Ontario, many Eastern and Western Canadian sites, and in and around his hometown of Guelph, ON. The style of his outdoor work borrows much from The Group of Seven and other Canadian landscape painters, but his aim is to be as true to the subject as on location painting will allow. His larger studio pieces, while subject to experimentation, usually reflect the same attitude towards the subject matter. Scott's work is featured annually in the Guelph Studio Tour, and is currently represented by Gallery on the Bay (Hamilton), Barber Gallery (Guelph) and Elizabeth's Art Gallery (Goderich). Scott teaches interest courses, and works as an occasional teacher for the Upper Grand District School Board.


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Chris Ahlers
is a co-owner of Wyndham Art Supplies and has been painting for 25 years. He has had numerous solo and group shows around Southern Ontario, most notably at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Wellington County Museum and Archives and Renann Isaacs Contemporary.



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Marnie Dallan was born and raised in Burlington, Ontario. She graduated from Humber College’s Package and Graphic Design program in 2001 and worked as a graphic designer in Toronto for four years. Marnie then moved to Guelph in 2005 to fulfill her dream of being a full time artist and mother.
In the last 9 years Marnie has enjoyed living in Guelph, raising her 2 kids and painting as much as possible. Marnie enjoys spending time outside, going to community and downtown events, and hanging out with her amazing, supportive friends & family.
She hopes to continue living a happy life & creating joyful art that makes people smile for years to come.


Nicole Fantin, BAH, MA, DTATI© is an Art Therapist who lives and works in Guelph, Ontario. Nicole works for Hospice Wellington, offering individual and group art therapy programming supporting the grief and bereavement population throughout Wellington County, working with children, adolescent and adults towards emotional well-being and collective growth. “Art and creative expression are vital components to both my personal and professional life, illustrating and bringing colour to many chapters within it.” Nicole works creatively with a variety of materials, including oil painting, photography and found objects.
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Brenda Gibson


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Roisin Gormley-Young is a graduate of OCAD’s Illustration program, she has been teaching art to youth and adults upside down and backwards for twenty years. Previously the Education Coordinator at the Elora Centre for the Arts, Manager of Wyndham Art Supplies and Directress of the GSA she brings with her an arsenal of

wild and zany tricks of the trade.

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Frances Hahn
http://www.necessaryarts.ca/#!who_we_are/c1enr

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Bruce Homer
  A local amateur artist; amateur in the best sense of the word!



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Chelsey Rae Hooker
is a pastry chef and sugar artist by trade, specializing in blown and pulled sugar sculpting and airbrush painting. As a hobbyist, she has begun creating mixed media artwork inspired by natural textures as well as her loved ones.

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Carol Hoover

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Karen Kesteloot has a BA in Fine Art from the University of Guelph, a Diploma of
Commercial Interior Design from Humber College and also studied at Parson's Paris
and the Art Institute of Lorenzo de Medici in Florence Italy. Karen has diverse skills
in numerous fine and applied arts. Her experience includes watercolour, drawing,
printmaking, sculpture, pottery, oil painting, egg tempera, dry media like pastels,
pencil crayon and marker. www.portprep.com


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Barbara (Basia) Kuras was born and raised in Szczecin, Poland where she studied painting, sculpture, interior decorating and display design at the Lyceum of Fine Art. After moving to Canada in 1987 she continues her education in graphic design at the Wellington County Board of Continuing Education and Conestoga College in Cambridge. In September 2000 she graduated from Digital Media Design Program at Conestoga College in Waterloo. Barbara works as a freelance graphic designer / artist from her home studio in Guelph. She specializes in websites, posters, brochures and flyers, logos, business cards, catalogues, illustrations and magazine design for small businesses. In her free time she continues to develop her career as a visual artist through photography and painting.

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Jessica Masters
has been working as a pastel artist and oil painter since 1995
after graduating from the University of Guelph with a degree in Fine Art. Her skills include printmaking, drawing, oil painting and pastel. She has been the technician for printmaking at UofG, and taught printmaking at OpenStudio in Toronto. She was an Artist in Residence at KWAG where she also taught children's art courses, and
produced a book and video on Printmaking techniques. She currently paints full time, exhibits her work in several Ontario galleries, instructs at the Guelph School of Art and understands the delicate balance of raising a family and working as a professional artist.


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Eric Allen Montgomery is a mixed media sculptor and glass artist, creating and selling Fine Craft since 1981. Originally from Ontario, he spent 17 years in British Columbia and in the autumn and winter of 2006/2007 he took a sabbatical and spent 6 months traveling the US, UK, Europe and Canada touring art galleries and flea markets, before returning to Ontario. In July 2008 he moved to Guelph where he spent 3 years exhibiting his assemblages and photo-based work at the Guelph Farmers Market, easily spotted as ‘The Purple Guy’. A proud participant in Art on the Street since 2011, in 2013 he was honoured to win Best in Show.

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Lydia Nieuwenkamp
received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006. She currently lives in Guelph, Ontario and continues to produce prints and drawings. Her background is primarily in printmaking, with a specific interest in pronto-plates. Her work references abandoned spaces and structures using contour lines and patterns.



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Tania Orton
 is an architect and teacher. She has taught art at International Schools in Ethiopia, Sudan and China. Her current focus, which started in 2009, is creating works by applying wax and dyes on canvas. She has owned and operated an art gallery and has participated in many shows and festivals, winning an award for her painting entitled Bamboo and Moon. She is also a long time member of the Eden Mills Art Festival. Her latest work “Fire in my Brain” was shown at the Red Head Art Gallery in Toronto.


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Laura Paghal
is the current Director of the Guelph School of Art. After studying for a year at Sheridan
College in their Art Fundamentals program, Laura went on to receive her diploma from Niagara College's Graphic Design and Art Fundamentals program. A member of the Wyndham Arts Supplies team for over 10 years, she previously managed the store until taking over the duties of running the GSA in the Fall of 2011. She has been an artist her entire life and tends to work in a variety of media including acrylic paint, pen & ink, graphite, collage and block printing.

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Juliet Promnitz
I'm a South African by birth, and a Canadian by good fortune. A life long quilter, an amateur potter and a self taught painter, I enjoy all forms of art. I find inspiration in nature and the beauty that surrounds us. I'm always looking for the silver lining! I find myself constantly changing as an art maker, seeing the old and everyday through new eyes, never static, always transforming.
 


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Tammy Ratcliff was introduced to printmaking at BealArt in London, Ontario and has been printing since her first class in 1990. She lives in Guelph with her family and for the past 20 years has worked in her own studio, though she continues to study periodically as well as travel for artist residencies. Her work has shown extensively in group and solo shows, most recently Print City at MAPC in Detroit and with Open Studio for Art Toronto. Tammy has received provincial grants and various awards for her artwork since first exhibiting in 1993. website and blog  http://tammyratcliff.com/


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Rod Romyn

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Ron Shuebrook is an internationally exhibiting artist, writer, educator, curator, and cultural activist whose work has been collected by more than sixty public galleries and corporations including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS. He is represented by the Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON; Studio 21 Fine Art, Halifax, NS; Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art, Guelph, ON; Ingrid Mueller Gallery, Fredericton, NB; Newzones, Calgary, AB. He is the former President, Vice President, Academic, and Professor of OCAD University where he is now a Professor Emeritus. Ron is currently serving a term as Senior Artist in Residence at the Boarding House Centre for the Arts, in Guelph, Ontario.

Laurie Skantzos is a Guelph based artist and has been exhibiting full time since 2008. She returned to University as a mature student in 1996 and fell in love with painting while she was enrolled in the fine art department at U of Waterloo. She shows her work in a variety of galleries throughout Ontario and regularly participates in the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and Toronto Artist Project among others. Her painting is largely inspired by the natural world and filtered through her inner landscape.
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Jay Stephens 
has spent over two decades as a professional cartoonist, best known for his Emmy-Award winning animated series' TUTENSTEIN and the SECRET SATURDAYS. Jay is also the creator of the long-running CHICK & DEE comic strip for chickaDEE Magazine."


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Cynthia Waldow is a partner in Necessary Arts Company; a co-working studio in downtown Guelph, where she is exploring mixed media.
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Darlene Watson grew up in the country outside London and has always had a love of nature and the outdoors. Volunteering with Focus on Nature, a photography group that works with 4th & 5th graders, Darlene is able to use her photography skills helping the students to capture their own unique shots.
In 1989 she graduated with Honors in Decorating and Design and uses this background in commission pieces. The majority of her paintings are abstract in nature using layers of acrylic, oil, genuine leaf along with Swarovski Crystal in some cases.
She was part of the Interior Design Show in January 2014 and her work appears in private homes in Texas, Arizona, New Jersey and throughout Canada. Darlene currently enjoys life as a painter in Guelph ON.


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Katie Wilde is a Guelph-based painter, sculptor and installation artist who studied Fine Art at University of Ottawa, and now daylights as an arts administrator at Guelph Arts Council. She has an impressive collection of bones, stones and student loans. Her art focuses on the unreality of nature, and she is very pleased to be taking part in Wyndham Art's silent auction fundraiser this year. Katie will happily consider commissions and collaborations, so feel free to contact her through ktwilde.com.


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Gillian Wilson
 currently lives & works in Guelph. Working mostly with brush & ink and screen printing, her style draws from 20th century folk art and scary feelings."

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Lauren Wright studied Fine Art at OCAD in Toronto and graduated with her BFA in drawing and painting in 2006. She then took part in OCAD’s off campus program, living, studying art history and producing work in Florence, Italy, for a year. In 2010 she returned to school for Dental Technology - making dental prostheses such as crowns, bridges and dentures, which are sculptural in nature and very hands on. She currently lives and works in Guelph.

Other participating artists include......

Mike Byers    www.levycreative.com
Susie Campbell
Brian Johnston
Brittany Kennedy
Blaire Rennie
Helene Sharer
Brandon Sharer
Charles Palmer
Carol Tinga
Doug Kirton
G Ma
JJ Salmon
JT Hofstra
Kevin Miller
Laura Coutts
Marilyn Clarke
Monika Hauck
Patricia Campbell
Ryan Cassidy
Seth
Suzanne Hare
Tina Newlove
Vince Moskowec



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