April Hickox

Our next Artist You Need To Know is April Hickox. Hickox is a Canadian lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who has lived on the Toronto Islands since childhood and much of her practice is informed and shaped by her immediate environment. Over nearly...

Janny Fraser

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Janny Fraser. Fraser produces evocative mixed-media installations, working with mediums such as clay, fiber and found objects. Her art primarily focuses on “creating hybrid mixed media objects that deal with time as the vehicle of...

Mariette Rousseau-Vermette

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Mariette Rousseau-Vermette (1926 – 2006).  An internationally renowned artist (who worked in paint as well as weaving) Rousseau-Vermette was a trailblazer in the arena of textile art. Many of her monumental ‘colour...

Elaine Ling

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Elaine Ling (1946-2016). Ling was a traveler and photographer, whose camera acted as a documentary tool of her life and experiences. She was born in Hong Kong but emigrated to Canada when she was nine. The wide open spaces and...

Paraskeva Clark

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Paraskeva Clark (1898 – 1986). A Russian – Canadian painter, Paraskeva Clark was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters (1936); the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (1937); Canadian Society of Graphic Art...