BIO Penny was born in Sault Ste Marie and has resided here for most of her life. She is an avid nature enthusiast spending significant time exploring and enjoying the wonderful landscape of the area in and surrounding Sault Ste. Marie.&n...
Biography My Art journey began with a foundation created by the following teachers: Attilio Francella, Taimi Poldma, Christine Kubis Bieman, and Ken Hagerman. I enjoyed the experience of learning perspectives of drawing, color schemes, shapes ...
BIOGRAPHY Brenda Nelson is a registered Metis woman with additional indigenous heritage roots being discovered, she was the first born to her teenage Mother in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in December 1979. There are many members of both her Mother and...
My childhood was spent in Southwestern Ontario, where summer weekends often included visits to family getaways on Lake Erie. Creativity was encouraged in our home, and I took music lessons, wrote poetry and loved to draw and paint. As a teen, I...
Susan Balog is a watercolour artist. She started painting when she retired from nursing. Susan loves the transparency of watercolour and how it makes the paintings glow. She continues to strive to make her paintings sing and along the...
BIO After a satisfying 32-year career with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Murray entered the business world of designing and manufacturing, creating Cedar Mountain Wood Products. The balance of form and function was his passion as he designed a...
BIO My name is Katie Marchese and I am the current president of the Algoma Art Society. I have always loved to draw and paint, and as a child, a sheet of blank paper was better than a coloring book any day of the week. I learned the basics about...
Bio Born 1952 in Kirkland Lake, Ont. While attending high school, I took Shops courses, realizing early on I should have taken Art classes. I began drawing in the 1960’s in pencil, also using black and white paint to create art to be viewed in...
BIO Mary Stevenson is a textile, mixed media artist from St. Joseph Island. She started her creative journey over 30 years ago designing a line of clothing, some may remember, called Island Comforts. Over the years, Mary has transitioned her love o...
BIO Mary-Lou MacDonald was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. From a young age she was always involved in artistic ventures. As an honours graduate from the Sault College Visual Arts Program, she possesses a solid arts backgro...
I make colourful paintings and drawings of people, animals, places or items that intrigue me and cause me to pause. We are bombarded with images daily, my paintings are the images that linger and revisit me time and time again until they are painted....
BIO Received Fine Arts Diploma from University of Manitoba in 1966. Thereafter, I moved to Sault Ste. Marie to assist with my husband’s business. Attended Sault College night classes to learn landscaping art with oils and acrylics in 1979. A...
Born in Strathroy Ontario, Nancy moved to Sault Ste Marie On. in 2004, where she currently resides. The move inspired Nancy to pursue painting the magic of the area. Nancy studied under Taimi Poldmaa and has developed a style to include differe...
Education and a young family required much of my time as a young adult. Even so I was interested in photography, sketching and wood working. The edges of my school notes were full of drawings. In later years these doodles centered on wildlife and nat...
Doris started sketching and painting in her teens but set aside all of this to enter a career of Nursing in London, Ontario. During this time she managed to sketch the occasional picture for friends and family. This came to a complete halt...
Art is my form of expression. Through painting and drawing, I explore and attempt to provide a unique definition of what inspires me. Following a realistic style, my favorite subject matter are portraits and figures, but also delight in the painting...
Lotte Steube Lotte Steube is a Sault Ste. Marie artist who finds that her desire to paint has grown into a passion. She is active in the local art community and enjoys expressing mood and delight in her paintings. Art has become an adventure of colou...
Creating art works gives an aesthetic experience to both the artist and the viewer. We live in a fascinating, mystical world. It has its beauty, but it also has its devastation. In my art works I focus on expressionistic subject matter that gi...
Theresa Ross Baic paints from the heart. Her inner feelings play a large part in her work. As a local award-winning watercolor artist, she is known for her award-winning depictions of Lake Superior and other local areas. She was published in ‘Lake Su...
Wendy Easterbrook was born and raised in Northern Ontario. Her absolute love of the environment has encouraged her to paint landscapes and gardens. She is influenced by the Group of 7’s ability to show off the radiant landscapes of Ontario. Wendy by...
I work with acrylics, and my favourite subject/genre is Aboriginal. My art is painted in the traditional Woodland style that reflects my Odawa-Ojibway heritage. The originality of my paintings is marked by a combination of everyday experiences arou...
Anne Laidlaw, award-winning artist, lives in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Anne was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she worked as a Graphic Artist. She has worked in most artistic mediums and is currently exploring pastels. She displays her work in ex...
Marcella Whillans (Gallant) was born and raised on Prince Edward Island. She left the "island" over 40 years ago and settled in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She is inspired by the Algoma landscape and the Majestic Lake Superior. She has taken many work...
Ken Hagerman is a landscape painter who works primarily in oils. After taking many classes with well known local artist John Keast, Ken took over teaching his classes at Sault College. Ken has been invited to participate in many Four and Frien...
Rutger G. Becker resides in Sault Ste Marie, and has always been fascinated with arts since he was a child. He spent many years in the performing arts receiving awards for his technical abilities. Early on in his teenage years he started working wit...
Sault Ste. Marie based artist Josie Jones has developed a passion for watercolours as her primary medium. She loves the freedom and sometimes unexpected results it has to offer. “You must allow the watercolors to work its' magic and be in...
Cherie Ahvenniemi has had an attraction to colour her entire life. Becoming a freelance decorator allowed her to express herself. The joy of colour continued into watercolour painting with a style that is loose and open. She is encourag...
Irene Oktaba is a watercolour artist who was raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She attended the University of Toronto where she earned all of her degrees culminating in a Ph.D. Creativity and the arts have always been important to Iren...
BIO Kim Conway-Capell is an artist who has enjoyed pencil drawings all her life. She was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie,Ontario. She is naturally gifted, like her mother, in sketching portraits, landscapes and still life. She has a camp on La...
I've recently begun a very inspiring journey into the art world. My interest in oil painting started several years ago with John Keast. Once I retired I was able to take lessons with Taimi Poldmaa and John David Anderson. I enjoy Plein Air Paintin...
Sophie Nash is a local artist who works primarily with acrylic, watercolour, ink, and pencil. She was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. As a child she dreamed of becoming an animator and has always been fascinated with a wide spectrum of ...
