Carl Beam

Our next Artist You Need To Know is a landmark of Canadian art. If you live in the Niagara area, you also have the opportunity to see many of Carl Beam’s works at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, on the second floor, in downtown St. Catharines, as well....

Louis de Niverville

Our latest offering in our ongoing Artists You Need To Know series is Louis de Niverville (1933 – 2019). Often described as a Canadian Modernist painter, this is only one place to stand when viewing his artworks and legacy. There was a consistent stream of...

Wally Ballach

Our latest Artist You Need To Know feature, from AIH Studios, is the intricate yet also somewhat uncanny artist Wally Ballach. Ballach was born in Dollnitz, Germany in 1954 and lives and works in Gordes, France. Ballach ‘crosses over into the looking glass and...

Laurie Simmons

AIH Studios’ latest featured artist in our ongoing Artists You Need to Know series is someone “trying to tell my own truth.” Laurie Simmons is ‘known for her close-up images of the world of dolls, Simmons has long used her lens to critique gender...

Charlotte Salomon

“The war raged on and I sat by the sea and saw deep into the heart of humankind.”(Charlotte Salomon, 1942) ‘Charlotte Salomon was murdered in a gas chamber shortly after her arrival at Auschwitz in October 1943. She was 26 and pregnant. Salomon was supposed to...