GET TO KNOW THE ARTISTS OF THE CARLETON PLACE GALLERY

Local and regional fine art

Our Artists

DARRYL KICUL - Wood Carving - Darryl Kicul is an emerging artist from Kanata that uses wood and stone to create whimsical sculptures. He has been carving for over 20 years but upon his retirement he decided to pursue his love of carving full time. His cottonwood carvings all form the mythical village of Deltoides. He chose the theme of Deltoides because it is part of the scientific name for the cottonwood bark he uses.
CECILIA TROY - Oil & Cold Wax - Cecilia Troy is a mixed media artist and owner of Artified Living located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Oil and Cold wax medium provide a tactile experience for the creator and blend beautifully to produce unique textures and surfaces. Each painting, developed with many layers of saturated colour and physical texture provide a distinctive viewing experience for the collector and admirer of her paintings.
JANIS MILLER HALL - Oil, Pastel - Janis Miller Hall is a multimedia artist from Ottawa, Ontario . Her works in oils, pastels and mixed media can be described as "contemporary realism" . She enjoys capturing a moment in time so that memories can be shared visually.
DON BRUNER -ACRYLIC - says "I love to celebrate the beauty of the places and the people I see. Often painting on location making a document of what is right in front of my easel. Or in the studio using photos of my wanderings. And sometimes just from memory." Don is a self-taught artist, currently an instructor at JB Arts – Almonte – Youths and Adults.
LAUREL WILSON - OILS - has lived in the rural woods of South Frontenac since 2018. A graduate of the Graphic Design program at St. Lawrence College in 1991, she worked as a freelance designer/illustrator in Kingston ON for over 20 years. Since dedicating her time to fine art, she has been successfully showing and selling her work in local art shows and galleries for the past three years.
KIM CHASE - Acrylic - Kim Chase is a Canadian painter who is most recognized for her wildlife and portrait. She likes to emphasize storytelling, emotion, and the aesthetic elegance of each subject and think outside the box to give a fresh perspective while enticing the spectator with the narratives.
ANN GRUCHY - ACRYLIC - is a visual artist living in North Gower, working and teaching in her Kars studio. She paints in both acrylic and watercolour and is known for her minimalist landscapes as well as her large, bold abstracts. “I paint trying to capture the light and atmosphere that continuously inspire me. My works are minimalist, abstracted and created spontaneously.”
JANET TULLOCH - FELT & ECO PRINTING - says that her art practice, vis a vis nature, "is a response to what I see as The Sacred Wild. This body of work explores the joy and mystery found in gardens and forests through my inquiry and response to the visual language of plant life."
AMANDA PIERCE - ENCAUSTIC - Amanda Pierce is a Cree Métis artist known for her encaustic painting and sculpture. Primarily self-taught, she works from her studio in Chelsea, Quebec. Working intuitively, Amanda invites her ancestral influences to guide her creative process, resulting in artwork that transcends mere visual expression to become a profound healing experience.
JAYNIE COULTERMAN - Acrylics - Jaynie is an Ottawa-based artist who has worked in many media, but focuses now on acrylics. Born and raised in Montreal, she is drawn to the cycles of nature and the natural beauty of rural and untouched landscapes. "I paint to convey the emotion and the impressions of the subject, rather than the detailed reality. It is the feeling of calm, peacefulness and joy that I find in nature that I am driven to capture in my paintings. "
KENNA MCCALL - FINE JEWELRY - extracts natural works of art from the Earth, through the canvas of stone, and interprets them into a wearable art form. "Although my style is inspired by Modernist and Brutalist jewelry artists of the mid-20th Century, each design is directed by the gemstone and its story. I work from my studio next to my home in Merrickville. I have been cutting gemstones and making copper and silver jewelry for more than 20 years. My work was featured in an international art fashion magazine and won a Global Excellence award from a UK luxury goods magazine."
NANCY BRANDSMA - OIL - is a contemporary oil painter born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1975. She has been actively involved in the Francophone artist community of Ottawa, Ontario since 2009 where she currently resides. Her oil abstracts have been exhibited in solo shows and group exhibits throughout the province in several galleries and venues. “My art has often been compared to Van Gogh for its bold, dramatic colour and energetic brush strokes filled with emotion and movement. Like Van Gogh, my heart and passion is in every stroke and it is my sincere hope that viewers will be charmed by the complexity yet simplicity of my world.”
VIOLETA BORISONIK - MIXED MEDIA - "gives people a chance to escape to a different reality. A happy place where you can breathe peace and freedom.” Violeta was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has a degree in Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires and Visual Arts from the Ottawa School of Art. Violeta is a mixed media artist exploring the urban landscape. Some of her works have a more geometric abstract style showing a strong influence of her background as an Architect.
DAVID MCAUSLAN - WATERCOLOUR - is a Carleton Place local artist whose work depicts local haunts and 'everyday' scenes with wonderful light and detail, capturing buildings, nature and objects with exceptional detail and light.
JOANNE COUGHLIN - ACRYLIC -says her art could be described as abstract expressionism. "Most of my work is layered and colourful and often reflects an aspect of nature."
SUZANNE WARREN POWELL - MIXED MEDIA - Suzanne co-founded Ottawa Mixed Media Artists (OMMA) in 2000 to give Mixed Media artists a voice in the Ottawa arts community. Her work is influenced by Zen principles, so there is always a spiritual component to her paintings, which involves letting go of fear and welcoming lots of room for play. “It is not what you look at but what you see.” - Thoreau
CHRISTINA STAPPER ---- CERAMIC POTTERY - is a small batch potter. Christina creates fantastic and functional as well as visual art. Wheel thrown and hand built. "I am in a season of life where I am saying yes to love, to being more fully and unapologetically myself, of embracing others for who they are, and of saying yes to finding ways to be light in this world. Pottery has been a space of joy, a way for me to be creative, and a means of connection to community and other creators. I am truly just a baby potter as I’m only three years into this journey, but it will be something I do forever. It feels like an extension of me."
PAMELA STEWART - ABSTRACT MIXED MEDIA - is a mixed media painter from Kanata, Ontario, Pamela uses (and loves experimenting with) modern materials such as art resin, synthetic paper, alcohol inks, glass paints, broken mirror and more. Her work is an expression of how she experiences the world around her – as an immersion of the senses. "I love for art, like life, to be a multi-sensory experience."
COLLEEN GRAY -STORYTELLING WATERCOLOUR - says the work at the Carleton Place Gallery "really speaks to the past 25 years of my journey to discover who Indigenous people are in the world - who I am through my art. It serves to both educate and highlight the unique and beautiful intricacies of Indigenous ways of knowing, ceremony and of a belief system rooted in community and generosity. I believe in the power of art to heal. It invites the imagination to dance with the heart. Art is love and vulnerability, given life and then shared.”
CAIRN CUNNANE - METAL SCULPTURE - Cairn began as an architectural blacksmith and says "there is a lot to learn from making the old traditional forms but gradually I developed a vocabulary of my own forms to express how I thought and I felt. It is an ongoing adventure."
DIANE KAMINSKI - MIXED MEDIA - is a romantic at heart. "My work is inspired by the everyday experiences and things I notice as I travel to new places; tend to my garden or navigate an ordinary day. I was taught to observe the commonplace; to stop and look at the things that others walk past. These snapshots in time are what I capture within layers of paint, mark making and mixed media. My intention is for the viewer to see and feel something familiar in a unique way."
GINNY FOBERT - PHOTOGRAPHIC ART “To me, it seems limiting to only photograph the world in one way. I like to look for something of interest and go beyond it to find a different way to portray what I see. Photography allows me to get outside the box, be a bit rebellious, break some rules and get away with it. Photography is a way of slowing down, escaping the norm and watching the world move at a more peaceful pace. The day I discovered photography I also discovered a hidden part of myself.”
TOM MURPHY - STONE SCULPTURE - has been carving wood and stone for over 30 years. After a brief battle with cancer, Tom’s life changed significantly. Carving stone has allowed him to creatively channel his recovery. Originally from Perth, Tom now lives on the Ottawa River with his beautiful wife Anne-Marie. Tom Murphy carves soapstone, serpentine and alabaster. All of Tom’s work is done by hand, much of which expresses his love and respect of the natural environment.