Artists' Biographies

Louise was born and raised in the Canadian prairies now residing in Sarnia. She is a self taught artist and has been painting since 2012. Her choice of medium is watercolour however has also done some work in ink, acrylic and coloured pencil. She has attended workshops with local and national artists including Kathy Rath, Ariel Lyons, Andrea Mossop, Joseph Fettingis, Ann Kullberg, David Sandell, Gretchen Parker, and Jesse Lane. Her work has exhibited at the Lawrence House in Sarnia, the Gallery in the Grove in Brights Grove and the Goderich Coop Gallery in Goderich Ontario. She is a representational...

Heather Lockhart was born and raised in Sarnia ON Canada, where she currently resides. Her passion for the arts started at a very young age. She recalls a love for “all things creative” from as far back as her memory serves, even choosing to stand and watch “artists at work” in theme parks, over exhilarating rides.While studying her artistic journey, she discovered that she had always been attracted to contemporary, abstract things. She enjoys modern architecture, gestural sculptures, organic shapes, textures, and loose abstract paintings, all of which can be found throughout her home today. Her “breadcrumb” story of how...

Victoria Shaw has enjoyed arts and craftsall of her life. Although time was limited un-til her retirement from Dow ChemicalCanada ULC., it was at this point in life thatshe decided to learn the skills of potterywheel throwing and clay hand building.Over the passed several years, Victoria (orVicki as most would know her by) attendedLambton College in Sarnia to learn ceram-ics basics.Vicki has been married to Bill Shaw for 45+years. She enjoys time with her family and grandchildren. Volunteers with the CaringHearts Children’s Program at St. Joseph’sHospice, Sarnia-Lambton. In addition toher pottery making she loves to travel, pho-tography, watercolour painting, as well...

Anna was born in the city of Dimipro Ukraine. She studied professionally at the Kharkiv College of architecture for 3 months her goal being to teach painting basics to children. 'I paint my paintings with a palette knife and brushes using strong fast stokes with which I can fully express thoughts and feelings".

Nataliya was born in the Ukrainian City Of Dinipro. She was orphaned at birth because of her disability and placed in a special orphanage for disabled children. She was there for the first 12 years of her life. She was then moved to a nursing home where she stayed for the next 18 years of her life. During this time she had a desire to draw and a good teacher helped her start painting by teaching her the art of Petrykivka Art which is Ukrainian Folk Art. Nataliya was determined to perfect her skill as a mouth painter. Her work...