Alexandra Luke

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Alexandra Luke (1901 – 1967). Luke was a Canadian abstract artist who was essential to the group of artists known as Painters Eleven. Besides being one of the most significant artists of that group Luke was also a vocal...

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...

Jo Manning

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jo Manning (1923-2022). Manning was a Canadian etcher, painter and author. Manning was one of Canada’s foremost printmakers, specifically in terms of her etchings over a career that spanned several decades and garnered her several...

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...

Susanna Heller

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Susanna Heller (1956 – 2021). Susanna Heller was born in New York, NY but lived in Montreal from the age of 7. She earned her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1977. This was during the heady days of the...