Broňa Wingell
Born in Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia, currently resides in Haliburton, Ontario
Painter and Apparel Designer (Lovescapes Art: Fine Art Fashions)
Self-discovered artist creating visionary paintings that celebrate love, life and femininity.
As a former professional dancer and dance teacher Broňa Wingell’s stunning paintings are intricately choreographed with beautifully fluent form and razor-sharp lines. Her artistic medium of choice is acrylic paint applied to canvas.
Broňa’s art invokes a sense of the inter-connection between all life forms. Simply put; her paintings celebrate love while exploring various aspects of life, death, femininity, motherhood, freedom, relationships, and the sanctity of sexuality. Broňa’s paintings offer joy, peace, and harmony, sparking the imagination to dream dreams and create anew.
Kulwant Singh
Kulwant Singh is a Brampton based Indo-Canadian artist, who has been painting for more than 30 years. After completing his graduate program (MFA) at Panjab University, Chandigarh, in drawing and painting, Kulwant immigrated to Canada in an effort to pursue his art full time. He specializes in painting portraiture from life and from photographs. Some of his work has been commissioned, while others are subject based paintings. As an oil painter, his approach to art is with realistic aesthetics in mind. He aims to paint his subjects with a clarity of who they are and how they feel, allowing viewers to ‘bond’ with the piece.
Kulwant Singh was recently awarded Best in Painting at the 2023 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, and 1st Place in the Expression Art Competition at the Peel Art Gallery and Museum Archives in Brampton.
Olaf Schneider
Olaf Schneider (b.1964) is a husband, father of two, and grandfather of seven. He studied at the Ontario College of Art, Sheridan College and was greatly inspired by his mentor Ron Greig. In 1986, while painting large scale outdoor advertising billboards for Mediacom, he acquired a strong practical foundation that would become integral to his work today.
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For Olaf, each piece represents an intense exploration and refinement of his personal pictorial sensitivities, especially as they relate to beauty, form, light, and shade. Composition, color, and craftsmanship are all elements that become the building blocks of his work. Olaf is a prolific painter who is inspired by the power and diversity of the northern landscape, and anything that needs a "second look". An explorer by nature, he travels across North America and Europe to gain inspiration. He is best known for his high realism style of painting. It has been extremely rewarding for him to be recognized and awarded with the highest honours for much of his work both in Canada, USA, Europe (France & Austria).
Olaf's work can be found in private, corporate and museum collections such as the TD Bank collection, Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, Woodbine Race Track, Sick Children’s Hospital (collections both in Toronto & Montreal), and the Louvre in Paris.
Meena Chopra
Meena Chopra is an internationally renowned award winning Canadian Indian visual artist, digital artist, artist educator, poet, art curator and a producer of art and literary events. She has been practicing her visual art for over three decades now. She has exhibited her art in many countries and has had over 100 solo and group shows. Her paintings are with many Corporations, Government Bodies, Embassies, Hotels and Private Collections in India, Canada, Australia, England, Switzerland, Dubai and the royal family of Kuwait. Her art and poetry have been extensively critiqued and reviewed by some of the well-known art critics/journalist writers of India, Canada, UK and USA. Driven by power of the abstract imagery, many times her art and poetry blend into each other.
Peter Cheung
Born in Hong Kong, Peter Cheung was primarily influenced by Chinese art at an early age, although not able to pursue it until later in life. After moving to Canada in the late 70s, education and family commitments largely kept his artistic vigour at bay, but he never abandoned his desire to commit himself to the craft. In 2015, after a kidney transplant Peter decided to leave the corporate world and commit himself to becoming a full time artist. His philosophy for creating art is simple, he is committed to create artwork that emanates energy, life force and movement.
Peter's portfolio strongly reflects his love of horses which he had strong relationships with while growing up. In his youth, Peter had to walk past the race track to get to classes and many times he would leave home earlier to spend some time watching the morning run. These beautiful animals often made him nostalgic and wistful for afternoons spent with his father at the track. His landscape works are heavily influenced by his fascination of the four seasons of Ontario.
A multiple winner of Juried shows, Peter Cheung's inspirations are vast. His repertoire includes everything from text book illustration to instructing public painting classes. His artwork has been seen at the Mountain Galleries, Paula White Diamond Art Gallery, Summer and Grace Gallery, Art Gallery of Burlington and Art Gallery of Guelph plus a vast array of private and corporate collectors.
Regan Hayward
Regan Hayward is an Irish-Canadian Artist/Curator, Accredited Astrologer and Writer that explores the qualities and conditions of being an individual person and the collective consciousness. Her artistic practice includes sketching, mixed media collaging and acrylic painting with an illustrative, highly symbolic, and surreal exploration. In her curatorial practice, Regan enjoys the synergy of working with a plethora of multi-cultural visual artists and collectors.
She is a graduate of OCAD University Curatorial Development, Art Criticism and Design Program, the Canadian Association for Astrological Education, and is a proud member of Curators International in New York City, USA.
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Regan is a visual artist member and curatorial director of the Beaux Arts Collective, the former Gallery Chair for the Board of Directors at Headwaters Arts at the Alton Mill Arts Centre in Caledon and is a former Trustee of the Board for the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinberg, Ontario.
Mehtaab Wachhair
Mehtaab Wachhair was born and brought up in India, a place known for rich culture, enriched art, and mesmerizing nature. Mehtaab is a professional freelance artist and has earned her Masters in the History of Arts from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, specialization in painting from the Government College of Arts in Chandigarh, India. Mehtaab has explored many traditional artistic media to express her creativity, including acrylic paint, pastels, textiles, murals, papier-mâché, handicrafts, ceramics, oil paint and water colours. Mehtaab enjoys painting and creating with respect to the elements of nature as an expressive language to create art. To share her passion with the community, she takes art classes and organizes workshops for both national and international audiences. Her works are displayed in various public organisations, as well as private collections located in India, Australia, and North America. Mehtaab’s client list includes the City of Schomberg- King City and the City of Pickering. Her art has been exhibited at prestigious galleries such as King Museum, Dufferin Museum, Beaux Arts Gallery, and Kingcrafts Art Studio. She has also been honoured to showcase 31 artworks in a music book, ‘Namo-Geet Geetay’ which were showcased during the Sikh Art and Film Festival. To help spread her love for the arts, Mehtaab has written blogs for the Sikh Initiative and Beaux Arts and honored to display her work in solo exhibitions and various group shows. Her accolades include artworks for municipalities like banners for the city of Pickering, State level award in the All-India Art Exhibition and piano painting for the city of Schomberg, King City. Through her artwork, Mehtaab wants to make a difference and bring happiness into peoples’ lives as art is the most mesmerizing way to express one’s feelings.
Philip Brink
Philip Brink was born in Spanaway in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States in 1978. This rural area quickly became enveloped by the nearby city, resulting in his observation of natural areas changing into urban sprawl. He spent hours wading through rivers in nearby towns and forests, enjoying and connecting to nature. Despite an interest in art, Philip pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies while completing extensive courses in Mathematics, Anthropology, Sciences, and biblical languages.
After completing his degree, Philip started a short stint in seminary, reevaluated his position on organized religion and joined the US Air Force. This time focused his attention to detail and developed a need to learn continuously. Trauma resurfaced during his time in a war zone along with adding new dangers. The result was hospitalizations and a new outlook on life, his place in the world, and enjoyment of minor details overlooked by many. He returned to art as an outlet for uncomfortable memories and a source for calming his mind through focus on naturalistic detail.
In 2012, Philip restored a statue of a Vietnam-era police dog now featured in an exhibit at the Security Forces Museum on Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. Since 2021, his drawings were also featured “Emerging Artist Wellness” online gallery and paintings featured at Beaux Arts, Headwaters Arts’ fall festival, and Humber Valley Art Club. He also presented “Mixing Mediums: Where Art and Tech Collide”, a two part series webinar for US Veterans on using technology as part of the artist’s creative process.
Philip now lives in Toronto, Canada the intention of moving away from past careers to focus on making sense of life by putting it onto canvas.
Josephine Condotta
Josephine Condotta is a Visual Artist, Nutrition Apprentice and student of Western Astrology. Her creative artworks are a compilation of mixed media pieces and mural projects. She aims to provoke questions about who we are as people, what it looks like to feel, and our relationship to the planet. Her artworks focus on the experience of the human identity in the midst of healing. Josephine's artistic practice is heavily rooted in natural subject matters and eco-friendly processes and materials.
Josephine has an Honours, Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art from McMaster University and her artworks have been showcased in ‘House and Garden’ and ‘Jungle’ magazines in the UK, the Toronto Star newspaper, and the International magazine, ‘ArtAscent’.
Jasmine Rock
Jasmine Rock creates paintings that explore and elevate texture, colour, shape and line. Her non-representational work ranges from flat primary colour pieces to 3D white textural pieces. Acrylics are uniquely suited to her style due to its versatility. She aims to make aesthetically pleasing objects that engage the viewer. She believes that beauty is meaningful and that there is complexity in simplicity. Her graphic design studies at York University and Sheridan College prepared her to think abstractly, experiment and iterate. She is influenced by the Formalism and Modernism movements. Her colour blocks series in particular is influenced by Piet Mondrian and Frank Stella. She lives and creates in Brampton, ON and has been a member since 2017.
Amanda Bhika
Amanda Bhikha is an artist that works in acrylic and various other mediums. She studied art fundamentals at Sheridan College and Illustration at OCAD U, and Child and Youth Care to blend her love of art with helping children and youth. Amanda founded Ravinzangel in 2016 as a namesake to her brother Ravin and received the 2021 Arts and Culture Award from the Brampton Board of Trade for Ravinzangel. Amanda continues to create and design wearable art and accessories that invokes inspiration to others to be hopeful and always keep going.