Genieve Figgis

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Genieve Figgis. Figgis (who was born in 1972) is an Irish artist who graduated in 2006 from the Gorey School of Art in Wexford (BFA) and earned a BA (hons) and an MFA (2012) from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin,...

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...

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...

Bram van Velde

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Bram van Velde (1895–1981). van Velde was a Dutch painter whose work was expressive, with dynamic brushstrokes and abstracted forms that often took shape in his use of paint, strongly influenced by art history but also a unique...