Description Born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, Pat came to Canada at the age of ten and fell in love with the Canadian landscape. She filled her life with a wide variety of outdoor activities such as photography, sketching and drawing—all providing inspiration to take...
Description Matt was the 1988 recipient of Muskoka Arts & Crafts’ Student Art Award, when he graduated from Gravenhurst High School. He continued his studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver in order to become a more skilled craftsman and...
Bill Urban received his Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting with minors in Sculpture and Design from the Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1965. During the 1960s, Bill was influenced by abstract expressionism and the East Coast art movement that...
Jim Drury was born in Sudbury, Ontario and has had a lifelong interest in wood-carving, nature, drawing and photography. In 1958, he married his wife, Donna, and together they raised two children. Jim had an 18-year career in the Royal Canadian Air Force and,...
Iris Gammon was born in Parry Sound and has lived all of her life in Muskoka. Her love of the landscape surrounding her MacTier family home began early in her childhood and has remained a life-long infatuation. A gift of oil paints on her sixteenth birthday gave Iris...
Jane Gordon was born and raised in Toronto, but moved to Muskoka in the early 1970s. As a child, she was introduced to its pine-filled vistas, rocky outcroppings and many lakes when her family built a log cabin on Skeleton Lake. In the years since, she remained...
Born in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England in 1918, Jean W.A. Forder’s professional career was in the field of social work with placements in Manitoba, then Muskoka. Retirement for Jean meant beginning an active career by developing her artistic talent and...
Hilary Clark Cole remarks that she was born an artist. “From the moment I developed the manual dexterity to put things together, I have been a sculptor. For me, my art is my breath.” The Brazing Hussy series is a group of artistic statements by an artist, a woman and...
John Brdar was born in Kast, Croatia in 1931 and came to Canada as a child of five years. He spent his childhood in Val D'Or, Quebec, later moving to Toronto in 1948. Throughout the 1950s, John learned to play the guitar. He began performing in Toronto with musicians...
Linda Hrynyk is a studio potter from Kahshe Lake in Kilworthy, Muskoka, Ontario. Born and raised in Newmarket, after completing high school she enrolled in Fanshawe Colleges Photographic Arts program in London, Ontario. Graduating in 1978, she worked in Toronto...