Sandra Blow

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Sandra Blow, R.A. (1925 – 2006). Blow was a trailblazing artist in the British abstract movement of the 1950s and 1960s who “stands alone as the earliest and most original woman painter in Britain able to challenge the...

Kathleen Munn

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Kathleen Munn (1887– 1974). Munn received little recognition during her life for her art, often being “on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radically new...

Guido Molinari

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Guido Molinari (1933 – 2004). Molinari was a Canadian artist who was known internationally for his serial abstract paintings that were often massive and explored hard edged abstraction. “Considered one of the most...

Yves Gaucher

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Yves Gaucher (1934 – 2000). Gaucher worked in both paint and printmaking (the latter being the space where he first established himself as an artist), and his work is marked by an ongoing exploration of abstraction. In the...

Molly Lamb Bobak

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Molly Lamb Bobak (1920 – 2014). Lamb Bobak was a Canadian writer, printmaker, teacher and painter. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada’s war effort, and in...