Garden & Art Tour Artists
The 2019 Garden & Art Tour featured many talented and unique artists. If you missed the tour, no worries. Read below to get to know a little bit about each artist.
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Sandra Klowak
Sandra weaves and sculpts with human hair, based on the historic craft of Victorian hairwork, which exploded in popularity during the 1800s. Hairwork was used to memorialize the dead as well as to celebrate friendship, kinship and romantic bonds between the living.
Sandra is fascinated by art and artefacts made from organic matter, like hairwork, that have survived as tangible chunks of history, connecting us to the past lives of real people. You can reach her at sandra@corporealcurios.com
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Denise LeBleu
Denise's passion started in high school when her graphic arts teacher introduced her to the world of photography. Denise’s love of nature and the outdoors inspires her to capture the beauty around her. Denise’s work can be found in many private collections across Canada and the United States of America and in The Gwen Fox Gallery in Selkirk, Manitoba and The Golden Prairie Arts Council and Gallery in Carman, Manitoba. You can reach her at deniselebleuimages@gmail.com
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Courtney Jensen
Since high school, Jensen has had a passion and interest in the arts. In Grade 11 she picked up a brush and tried painting for the first time. The painting was a simple cloudy sky with trees and grass but what it brought to her was much more than simple. She would continue to paint and develop her skills. Now she is developing her drawing skills and exploring new mediums and medias.
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Dianne Lund
Dianne loves to create art pieces in many different mediums, adding rustic items including barn board, metals, driftwood and rocks to create unique one-of-a-kind artwork. She started painting in 1975 in oils and then developed her own style in watercolours, acrylics, and fabric art.
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Patricia Anderson
Patricia creates images of rural Manitoba is kiln formed glass and fibre. She uses a variety of techniques to produce beautiful landscapes. She also creates glass bowls and vessels using a kiln and felted vessels and 3D art using felted wool.
Her glass includes garden art as she is an avid gardener. Patricia started exhibiting in acrylic landscapes but when she discovered glass and later felted wool her mediums changed but her vision remained the same. She can be contacted at painteddaisyartglass@yahoo.ca.
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Bev Hart
Bev has always enjoyed being creative.
Since Bev’s husband bought her a set of acrylic paints in the 1990’s, Bev has enjoyed experimenting with new painting techniques, colours and styles.
Her art studio glows with her whimsical artistry: flowers and birds, dancing girls with big hats and long dresses, girls riding bikes through enchanted countrysides, and more abstract designs.
Bev’s art has been displayed at the Gwen Fox Gallery and the Gaynor Library in Selkirk, as well as in various other venues in and around Winnipeg.
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Amanda Onchulenko
Amanda Onchulenko is a Canadian and Australian citizen, a painter and textile artist and now, new author. Amanda has maintained a studio practice in Winnipeg’s Historic Exchange District since 2001, where she spends school hours in a 100 plus year old building painting in words and colour. Colour provides the vehicle for a journey beginning with landscape that evolves through process to become a suggestion of place. A document of where one is informed by where one is from.
The relationships and reactions of colour within a composition, regardless of media, are the focus of all production. Amanda says the remnants of her Australian accent can often be a challenge to communication in conversation; however, she is never misunderstood as a colourist.
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Jan Dornian
With nature as a focal point, creations range from table top sculptures to 8 foot tall moose or Sasquatch, wolves and bears. Her studio, Steel Your Art Away Studio is located near Lockport, Manitoba, Canada. The art is also present at Bulrushes Gallery on Kernstead Road, Winnipeg Beach, Pulse Gallery at the Johnson Terminal at The Forks, Mainly Manitoba at Wasagaming Clear Lake. You can reach her by email at dornianj@gmail.com.
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Tanis Bannister
Tanis has created artwork throughout her life. Having grown up on the Prairies and spending her childhood summers in the Interlake, Tanis is influenced by the colours and patterns of nature.
Instruction for pottery skills was gained from highly respected Winnipeg potter, Valerie Metcalfe of Stoneware Gallery. Further knowledge came by in depth study of glazes and firing. Tanis has participated in raku, paper clay, watercolour, brushstroke and glaze workshops.
Tanis endeavours to create pottery that will stand the test of time and bring pleasure along with function. A concept that seems so simple but is so complex when you are using earth, water and fire!
Working with clay has been a gratifying and humbling experience. Pottery has taught me patience and perseverance. It has been a wondrous and magical journey of learning and growing and stretching my imagination with this medium.