Artist Profiles for Quest Art School + Gallery members
Quest Art School + Gallery is comprised of more than 220 members.
Carol Clapham
©
Carol Clapham is a graduate of the Sheridan College Illustration program, she has recently began her second career in the fine art world. Carol's transparent watercolours cover a wide range of subjects but her love of architecture influences her heavily. All inquires welcome, she me be reached at:
info@carolclapham.com http://www.carolclapham.com/
Deb Grise
©
Deb is equally comfortable painting in her studio or in the field, and specializes in landscapes and figures in oil. Her style is contemporary impressionism. Deb is an active member of the local art community, involving herself in the organization of art events and group efforts.
email: dgrise@rogers.com
phone: 705-549-4252
Karen Lacroix Mealing
©
Karen Lacroix Mealing earned a B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Ottawa. She has utilized colour, black and white and a variety of non-silver processes and works extensively with Polaroid transfers and Polaroid emulsion lifts. In a digital age, she continues to use slide film and has her work enlarged as cibachrome prints. She may be reached at tkom@rogers.com.
Diane Soward
©
Diane has been working with acrylics for several years. Her favourite type of art is realism but she is starting to try her brush at impressionism and abstract. She paints mostly landscapes (especially the spectacular rocky terrain and swept pines of Georgian Bay) but also paints still life and other subjects. Diane is mostly self-taught but had the opportunity to study fine art for a period of time at the Newmarket School of Fine Arts. Diane may be reached at diane.soward@gmail.com or visit her website at http://www.artofdianesoward.com/.
Murray Van Halem
©
Murray Van Halem has been a visual artist for over 40 years, his first 20 years as a professional large-format commercial photographer and photojournalist. Murray Van Halem is a new member of Quest and a recent arrival to the Georgian Bay area. He currently is working and playing with watercolours and pastels. His work can be seen at http://murrayvanhalem.blogspot.com/
Kimberly Viney
©
Kimberly Viney is a graduate of OCAD who captures the landscape in both pastel and oil. She also paints large oil abstracts.
Kathleen Buchan
©
Kathleen has painted for as long as she can remember. Her journey started with art lessons at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art & Commercial Art at Concordia University in Montreal. She has shown her work in group & solo shows in Canada & USA. Although she paints in all media, she prefers to teach oil painting. Besides group & private lessons, she has taught at Conestoga College & Georgian College in Ontario. A class is being offered in oil painting for beginners at Quest School of Art + Gallery in August 2010.
705-549-3311
Katherine McIntaggart
©
I started sketching, years ago when I was a teenager and I enjoy it very much. I sketch birds, animals and people.
I started painting with watercolours, too. I like to paint scenery. I'd like to keep painting and sketching in the future.
