Lake Winnipeg is Gayle’s first love; her watercolours of this freshwater ocean are in collections across North America. As painting large is also a favourite challenge for Gayle, she gleefully splashes acrylics across canvas as well.

Alan Lacovetsky has been making functional pottery and sculpture from custom-mixed clays for nearly fifty years. He has worked and exhibited throughout Canada, the US,…

Amanda Onchulenko is a painter, textile artist and author, and the current Artist-In-Residence at the Fairmont Hotel. Her work is both strong and colourful, with…

Creating an art work should not stay stagnant, it should evolve. Just like the person who is creating it, evolves.

Writing is extremely important to me, it brings me so much joy, peace and comfort. Like beading, it’s medicine.

“I think I discover my artistic expression every day. At a certain level of piano, it became liberating to bring to life music that was written hundreds of years before. With this intimate understanding, I had the ability to add colour to a single note on the piano. A single note that was so simple it could bring tears to my eyes.”

Ashley Bieniarz, Kwiat, is an avant-pop Metis and Polish artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba.