Artisan Artists in Canada

The art work of Joanne Johnson details her travels depicted by diverse imagery from landscapes to seascapes and works of restorations urbans. Her interest in structures and landforms occupy much of her current work.

My work encompasses the pure essenceof texture,colour,and form.It continues to be influenced by my studies in textile design and my late father's collection of carpets, wallhangaings,icons, and srtifacts.I construct my canvases by adding various p... (more)

As a contemporary, award winning artist, Loretta expresses her visions in a spontaneous and direct fashion. Acrylic paint is layered, subtracted and manipulated using palette knives, brushes and scrapers to synthesize an intricate and distinct tab... (more)

Heather Dawn Kemp is an Alberta artist with a passion to create through a variety of medium including oil painting, mixed media, sculpture, invented materials. She received her Diploma of Fine Arts with Distinction from Alberta College of Art and... (more)

Valerie was born in Kent, England during the Second World War, where she lived in a mostly rural area until her family emigrated to Australia when she was twelve. In 1973, she took a vacation in Canada and fell in love with that country. She has l... (more)

Artist Biography

Originally from the Netherlands, Janna Kumi is a Canadian artist living in Metro Vancouver and exhibiting in British Columbia and across Canada. Her initial art studies were at the Montreal Museum o... (more)

Landscape and figures symbolically represented, inspired by different trips and cultures. The mixed media techniques are based on two parallel mediums: water-based and acrylics where collage profiles not only as a form but also as a main qualitati... (more)

My work is representational and features the play of colour and light in the scenes of Western Canada, florals and more.

Diane Larouche Ellard is a painter and encaustic/mixed media artist living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Larouche Ellard exhibits her work throughout the province and is represented by The Gallery at Matticks Farm in Victoria, and Grasslands Gallery... (more)

My work whether sculptural or functional comes from a deep interest in the 'history of clay' which as a humble material has helped inform human civilization on this planet.