guest artists
Our artistic mandate is to offer a chance for local artists to display their creations, whatever discipline or technique they are specialized in.
The current exhibitions are :
Soren Jensen
- painter
Soren Jensen is an artist who likes to observe, appreciate and try to understand the intricate world we all live in. It is probably the reason why he perfects his art in landscapes. He also feels that landscapes are an important reminder of the link between us and the natural world to which we are inextricably linked.
His biggest fascination is water, possibly because he crossed the Atlantic when he was just a boy. He is interested in the contrast between the sun’s glare and the darkness of the water as well as the translucence of the foliage which makes for striking effects that challenges the artist’s control of value and contrast.
Soren Jensen has always desired to capture the illusive look of liquidity, interacting with both transparency and reflectivity; we think he’s getting pretty close.
Marianna Mikhaylyan
- painter
Marianna is a Canadian artist of Russian-Armenian origin born in Moscow in 1972.
Inspired by her learning of classical ballet and her practice of figure skating during her youth in Russia, Marianna creates many of her work in visual arts in a particular style, an artistic thought that tries to express, in the fluidity of movements, the presence of the harmony in her painted subjects with the different elements surrounding it.
Her creations can be found in many private collections throughout the world, notably in Russia, in the United States, in Canada, in France, in Norway, in Italy, in Israel, in Australia and in Austria.
Diane Fontaine
- painter
Diane Fontaine, is fascinated by textures which seem to make her paintings come alive. Her movement is strong with an expressionist style. This artist distinguishes herself by exploiting emotions and movement through depth using dramatic shadows and luminosity.
Her unique approach and her impressive production make her an artist to keep an eye on. We invite you to come and admire her work, with all of its warmth.
Carol Froimovitch
- ceramist from Chelsea
Carol Froimovitch’s style is rustic, even a bit rough. You can identify her work by its multiple textures and deep, rich colours. Carol leaves her finger marks on her pieces on purpose as she intends to celebrate the human action through the creation. By doing so, she makes you feel the artisan working the clay when admiring the pieces.
Most of her pieces were fired up to 12 hours in her outside wood oven. The firing process is determinant on the final result: you can make out the flames and cinders traces on the jars, bowls, pots, bird baths,...
Carol Froimovitch teaches ceramics at Canterbury High School, an art university in Ottawa.
Mustapha Chadid
- Metal sculptures
Mustapha Chadid has this ability to breath life into still, heavy and rusty metal, allowing grace and poetry to develop in an unexpected way.
Some of our past exhibitions:
Anamaria Gomez-Upegui
- Ink on paper
She once was a teacher in Chelsea, then she chose a new path and moved to Montréal.
Anamaria Gomez-Upegui is a true artist, she always had this habit to draw for herself and her relatives.
In 2009, she turned into a professional artist and organized her first solo exhibition. Highly inspired by the molas of South America, she has created a whole fantastic world inhabited by people and animals. Her sparrow has a simple shape, but the maze it is constituted of is quite intriguing! Anamaria plays with the contrast of black and white: it might look simple, yet it is so energizing!
Sally Lee Sheeks
- mixed media artist
Sally Lee Sheeks, native of La Petite-Nation in the Outaouais region, studied fine arts at John Abbott College and at Concordia University in Montreal where she directed the VAV Gallery. She then began her master’s degree in sculpture-installation at Johannes-Gutenberg University in Germany.
Her thesis studied natural phenomena: gravity, water, shade and vegetable growth. In Finland from 2000 to 2004, she taught drawing, organised and participated in many exhibitions as well as studied theediting and administration of arts. Back in Canada, Sally has been sculpting, drawing, studying plants and living creatures surrounding her and is actively committed in the local artistic community. She helped setting up the “Centre d’Action Culturelle” of the Papineau RCM and coordinated the centre in 2007-2008.