Dumi is an urban planner and interior designer but is passionate about creativity and self-expression through artistic activities. Currently, her art is spontaneous and unexpected. Dumi's skillset includes drawing, photography, digital media.
Andreea says she paints for fun and her life is a lot of fun. She mostly paints but also does charcoal drawing and photography sometimes.
Carol is a passionate visionary who, in the midst of drafting blueprints and designing structures, discovered a hobby expressing herself through painting. Carol says she transforms the ordinary into a canvas of possibilities, where the imagination and the spirit converge. Her skillset includes watercolor and architectural sketches.
Mithas is reinventing her passion for art after a 10-year break. She is excellent at portraits and bringing back her love of watercolor.
Gabriela tries to mix creepy, horror art with soft elements. She does everything from tattoo designs to portraits and loves turning everything she sees into an art style. Gabriela is also a musician and skilled at digital media.
Denise has been an artist for as long as she can remember. Her color of choice is always blue, and she is currently doing her version of pop art. Her skillset includes graphic design by profession, painting, sculpting with paper, creating signs using plaster, and wood metals.
Jess's goal in her artwork is to employ the 5 C's: combination, contrast, color, correct drawing, and composition. She believes that no medium stacks up to watercolor because of its ability to be abstract and fluid to subtly describe features and objects, or sharp and controlled to accurately render intricate details.
Maria is in love with color and nature, which she captures on her canvases from the depths of her being. She is passionate about training and sharing her knowledge with others.
Jesse is a young and bright emerging artist, who uses her youthful perspective on Australian society to create bizarre and entertaining pieces of art. Additionally, she is the youngest finalist in the 2023 Mosman Art Prize, having won the Mosman Youth Art Prize earlier this year.
Petra, a student, is forging her path in the art world. She says her art looks like someone took the subject, dragged it though Chernobyl then threw it in an Auschwitz furnace and slapped in on a canvas. Petra is also able to make colorful stuff but is currently in a certain art phase.
Irina loves making all types of art and can't pick just one genre. Her art varies from classical drawing and painting to animation and jewelry making. Irina considers her art, and her life, an organized mess!
Nicoleta is passionate about mixed media, collage and abstract painting. She believes that experimenting is part of the creative process. When she paints, she tries to bring to her works a unique blend of clean, sculptural forms, while giving meticulous attention to composition.
Patrick is an Ottawa based artist that paints almost everything and anything, within the studio and beyond. Patrick's art is filled with spontaneity, and skill which is forever changing based on the subject matter. Although he is best known for landscape and cityscapes, the lifetime of painting and interests in art has geared towards exploring most if not all forms of art.
Lately, Fanatic Vision has been fascinated by the subject of altering the DNA lineage. He illustrates not only the end result of DNA crosses but also the transition zone, a very fluid one and not necessarily clear in form. He alternates different techniques and fields of visual art. Fanatic Vision creates through painting, drawing, modeling, animation and digital sculpture.
Carly creates nature-based art that focuses on textures and colors. A self-taught artist, she enjoys art competitions, commissions and selling pieces inspired by the local wildlife. Her preference is acrylic paint on canvas.
Armaș Ana-Maria's art is characterized by vivid colors and distinctiveness. It embraces a vibrant and diverse palette, creating a unique visual experience that captivates the viewer's imagination. She uses various techniques with imprints of several objects such as bottle caps or leaves in her paintings.
Suzannah is back! Suzannah, a two-time Art Battle City Championship Finalist has been a paint night instructor since 2015. She considers her work colorful, playful and experimental.
Jada is an Ojicree artist from Constance Lake First Nation. For Jada, art is a form of self-expression, it is her safe place with no boundaries where she can freely express her ideas and thoughts that are often difficult to verbalize. She loves painting native floral designs, abstract work, and even anime style drawings!
Cailey is a self-taught, 23-year-old local artist and a stay-at-home mom. She has been creating art for 10 years in many ways for many people! She loves to paint anything just give her a paint brush and watch her go!
Tyler is a multifaceted artist with a variety of different skills and abilities. Between skateboarding and painting at the same time, making hyper realistic portraits and designing merch for local bands, he still finds some time to work on his plein air landscape series depicting the colorful busy streets of downtown Toronto.
Natural is a poet producer, art teacher and graphic designer. He works in spray paint and clay.
Erin is a self-taught artist who is always looking to learn something new. Her passion is to paint animals and portraits with acrylic paints using high contrast colors. She uses a semi-realistic and detailed style to portray her subjects.
Paul has been sculpting and creating since the early 2000’s. Choosing various forms of media, a sensitivity to water flowing paired with acute observations of weather in its many forms can often be found reflected within his pieces. Using ecologically sourced native hardwoods and working in the fashion of our ancestors with rough tools and fire, Paul often feels a spiritual connection, with the wood speaking to him - suggesting a work or spirit within - waiting to be released.
Pav is a Sydney-based artist and designer who works in mixed media. Her creative life started early but over the years has had many different forms. Her work is deeply intuitive and gathers so much by being truly present and grasping the endless experiences in her day-to-day life. Her artwork takes her somewhere new each time!
Ellis is a freehand artist based in Toronto, currently working as a graphic artist in the film and television industry. He is known for his freehand art skills and drawing from memory. His skillset includes using visual art to elevate his music, drawing and illustration, painting, digital painting, pencil, pen and ink, and even 3d sculpting.