Directory > Artists
Visual Art
Biljana Baker *
Tel: (807)577-7077
Email: biljanabaker@shaw.ca
Biljana is a watercolor artist who is challenged by the spontaneity of watercolor. She has worked delivering educational programming in the public school board with Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) for several years and enjoys working with students of all ages. Her work is well known in Thunder Bay.
Kathleen Baleja *
Tel: (807)623-6732
Email: kathleenbaleja@yahoo.com
Website: www.kathleenbaleja.com
Don Bayes
Tel: (807)285-4293
Email: someguy613@hotmail.com
Website: www.hide5.ca
Don has been working with leather for over 40 years. Some of the work he has done includes buckskinning, carving, quillwork, saddle and tack. Don works with a focus on custom one-of-a-kind items.
Monica Belluz *
Tel: (807)345-2297
Email: monicabelluz@yahoo.com
Website: http://go.to/monicabelluz
Marilyn Boyle
Tel: (807)345-6895
Email: wboyle@shaw.ca
Website: http://www.moondriftgallery.net/
Marilyn is mainly an acrylic artist but she also paints in watercolor. She also paints on untraditional canvases such as wood, glass, tin, bark, stones, mat boards, and fabric. Her work focuses mainly on wildlife, fantasy and the scenic local landscapes found in our parks. Marilyn has taught acrylic and watercolor painting workshops. She is a member of the Lakehead Visual Arts and the Artist’s Palette. Marilyn is a member of Northern Images Art Club and has a studio where people can come and purchase originals, prints, cards and much more by calling for an appointment to view.
Sharon Breckenridge
Tel: (807)475-8169
Email: interwovenonsuperior@shaw.ca
Sharon weaves traditional baskets as well as one-of-a-kind art pieces. She works with natural materials such as driftwood, antlers, grapevine etc. She teaches basket weaving out of her studio, at the 55+ Centre and in local schools.
Linda Brown ~ Silversmith *
Tel: (807)345-5446
Email: lindalouisebrown@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.northernlightsgallery.ca/
Linda has been designing and delivering programming in the schools through LTTA and CAHEP since 2001. She loves to share her passion for the visual arts, especially metalsmithing, with the children in the classroom. Her educational background in drawing and painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking has been reawakened through language arts, math, science, geography and social studies. She finds her work with the students to be very inspiring and even takes it back to her studio at Northern Lights Gallery on Bay Street were she creates fine silver jewellery and hand hewn silver and copper vessels.
Carol Cooper
Tel: (807)346-9773
Email: compasswebworks@gmail.com
Website: www.compasswebworks.com
Carol is a local artist who creates contemporary art in digital media.
Fractals, geometric forms, abstract elements & the use of a bold colour palette are prominently featured in her works.
Carol's artistic passion is expressed by capturing the "essence" of what she sees and feels.
She is presently exploring the realm of alternative digital printmaking.
Linda Dell
Website: http://www.lindadell.com/
Artwork is available at Local Colour Art Gallery, 33 Cumberland Street.
Elliott Doxtater-Wynn
Email: doxtater_wynn@shaw.ca
Elliott Doxtater-Wynn has been avidly working within both the Catholic and Lakehead school boards since graduating with an HBFA from Lakehead University. His work both professionally and with students ranges from 2-D, 3-D sculpture to performance based activities and presentations.
A key component of his presentations and workshops is to draw out the creativity of the students creating an environment that is fun and engaging to reach the students and help them achieve their goals. In recent years, Elliott has received recognition for contributions to the community by the North Western Ontario Aboriginal Youth Achievement Awards, and has recently been selected to represent Canada as a host artist for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Brian Holden *
Tel: (807) 623-3347
Email: brianholden@shaw.ca
Website: www.brianholden.ca
Blog: myprintmakingjourney.blogspot.com
Natalie Hotson *
Tel: (807) 683-7393
Cell: (807) 629-3735
Email: nhotson@lakeheadu.ca
Natalie is a visual Artist working in many mediums including watercolour, acrylics, tie-dye, paper mache, pastels, pencil, ink, charcoal, beaded jewelry, murals and painted furniture. She has experience as a Dress designer and Interior designer. To devote herself fully to Art and Design fulfills a childhood ambition to celebrate the sheer beauty of the world around her through art.
Natalie has enjoyed passing on her knowledge, skill and zeal for art to others through coordinating art projects and teaching students of all ages. Natalie currently works in the schools with The Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning Through the Art’s program. Natalie is the owner of Natworks Interior Design.
Caroline Kajorinne
Tel: (807)683-7079
Email: ckajorin@lakeheadu.ca
Caroline works in various media including painting, charcoal, metal, fibre, and performance art. She is a member of the Craft Collective, a shared studio and gallery, where she creates jewellery and works with fibre. Currently, she is also working with metal, welding to create sculptural forms. Her inspiration stems from observing nature, as well as music.
Caroline is able to lead classrooms in the creation of small-scale sculptures, sewing, drawing, painting, collage, or assemblages. She would also be enthusiastic in leading a group performance art piece. This could involve the students working as a team in order to create costume, props, and/or sound (via found objects or by creating objects) which would be used as a part of the performance.
Susan
Kakepetum
Susan Kakepetum is an
artist and heritage programmer from Lac Seul First Nation. She from the Bear
clan and is a mother of 7 children and a grandmother of 22. She has been doing
crafting and regalia for some years and was originally taught by her mother.
Crafts have become a way to pass on teachings. Susan uses them as a means of
relaxing and thinking things though.
Tel: (807)344-7723 (h) or
(807)620-2477
Email: susan.kakepetum@shawcable.com
Derek Khani
Tel: (807)623-6055
Email: artvisions@tbaytel.net
Derek is a multi-disciplinary artist who offers flexible programming. He can engage participants in any art project involving the visual arts. Depending on the interests of the partners involved, he is able to accommodate projects including, but not limited to: painting, drawing, sketching, sculpture, murals, graphic design, graffiti, printing, set design, mosaic, digital photography and photo manipulation. These programs are adaptable for any age group.
Originally from the Seychelles Islands, Derek did his Fine Arts degree in Germany, after which he completed a Bachelor of Education at Sussex University in Brighton, UK. Derek is fluent in four languages, including French. A father of two, he is passionate about children and encourages personal and academic development through visual literacy. Derek is also an advocate of eco-friendly art projects that inspire children to reduce, reuse and recycle and he is involved in community art projects through the Art Access Program of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.
Tuula Kilgour
Tel: (807)344-6339
Email: tuulakilgour@hotmail.com
In my retirement from high school art teaching, I am enjoying the time to expand my own creativity. Presently, I am carving in wood..blocks, logs, driftwood or whatever sparks my intuitive nature. My carvings are based on wildlife and the creations take on the characteristics of the shapes, forms and textures I discover within each piece of wood. From wood, I am expanding to the challenges of relief toolling in copper as well as painting natural characters on stone. Realism and whimsy are dancing to life in many forms. Presently, I am a contract lecturer at Lakehead University Faculty of Education, teaching Curriculum and Instruction in the Visual Arts and am in classes from September to November and January to March, giving me some fabulous time off for personal development.
Evelyn Konrad
Tel: (807)577-2155
Email: hekonrad@shaw.ca
Website: www.konradwatercolours.com
Gallery Location: 429 Pineview Bay
Evelyn attempts to capture the mystique of the north as she paints from the soul, believing art is one of the most significant ways of expressing feelings in all their forms. She is a watercolor artist who has had her work displayed in a number of commercial outlets and art displays in Thunder Bay as well as Winnipeg. She wishes to share her art, a gift from our Creator with others.
Joan Kresack
Tel: (807) 964-2743
Email: joank@xplornet.com
Joan works with stained glass including boxes, large panels, suncatchers, lamps, kiln-fired candleholders, bowls and flowers. She has a studio overlooking the shore of Lake Superior where she lives with her husband Ron.
Fritz Lehmberg
Tel: (807)475-9758
Toll free: 1-888-244-0745
Email: earlysnows@tbaytel.net
Fritz has been a studio potter since 1983 and has created wood fired pottery since 1990. He has been an artist educator since 2000, teaching functional and sculptural work along with tile design.
Judy Mayor
Tel: (807) 577-5335
Email:
judy_cm@msn.com
Judy is a multi-media visual artist whose works have been accepted to juried shows nationally and internationally. With a passion for art and a love for nature, her works include landscapes, animals and wildlife. Painting can take many forms and direction.
Acrylic paint can be used on stones (garden stones), graffiti art (street art on canvas board), and pop art or abstract pieces. Watercolours can include landscapes and flower painting (greeting cards for special occasions).
Judy has done wall murals with students and painted on the asphalt at local schools.
Lana McGregor
Tel: (807) 623-6733
Email: lkmcgreg@lakeheadu.ca
Website: www.lanamcgregor.com
Lana McGregor is a practicing collage artist living in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
She expresses her passion for teaching the art of collage by using motivating, step-by-step activities that challenge students to think about creating art in new ways. During the creative process, students will discover how to incorporate “found/recycled” materials into completed, working compositions using the elements and principles of design. In creating a collage, the materials are applied to a base (paper, canvas, or wood) in layers to create exciting and beautiful surface textures. Techniques of drawing, printmaking, painting, and sculpture will be explored, depending on the type of collage. Students will decide on the chosen subject matter for their project. This includes the self-portrait, the figure, the landscape, the still life, and the abstract or combinations thereof.
Debbie Metzler
Tel: (807) 767-6259
Email: debonair@tbaytel.net
Debbie is a visual artist, writer and art educator (BEd) with over thirty years experience teaching art and writing in public schools, galleries and for community groups such as the Canadian Cancer Society. She has exhibited extensively in Western Canada and the northern US. Her specialties are drawing, printmaking, illustration, painting, textiles and crafts. She is comfortable teaching creative people of all ages and abilities and she has a keen interest in environmental issues and the healing aspects of creativity.
Brian Nieminen
Studio: (807)767-0282
Cell: (807) 627-5820
Msg: (807)767-0282
Email: bnieminen@shaw.ca
Website: www.niemerscreations.com
Brian passionately pursues a variety of artistic avenues and techniques including: custom-designed airbrushed caricatures and cartoons, indoor and outdoor murals, painted portraits, landscapes and historical paintings; pencil, pen, acrylics, oils and airbrush. He can be found doing on-the-spot caricatures at many events such as the Dragon Boat and Blues Festivals, the CLE and the Fisherman's Picnic in Grand Marais, painting outdoor murals such as “Portals into the Past” on Gilbert’s Furniture Store on Simpson St., or working in his home studio.
Lora Northway
Tel:
(807)251-3826
Email:
loradefsup@hotmail.com
Lora currently works at Definitely Superior Art Gallery as Outreach Administrator and is a graduate of the Fine Arts program at Lakehead University. She is experienced in several mediums with a background in ceramics, drawing and mixed media. Her workshop history is diverse and flexible, touching on clay, acrylic, mixed media, graffiti, sculpture, watercolour, print, and beadwork, and can adapt projects to any age group. Lora has obtained a wide base of knowledge over the past ten years as an arts collective director, visual arts instructor, curatorial assistant, tour organizer, gallery attendant and outreach administrator.
Vesa Peltonen
Tel: (807) 767-8126
Email: vesa_peltonen@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.vpeltonen.com
Vesa Peltonen has had an extensive career in the arts. He has been a visual artist for over 25 years. He is mostly into watercolour painting, print making and mixed media. Vesa is a qualified high school teacher. He has degrees from University of Manitoba and Lakehead University. In the last 10 years he has immersed himself in the aboriginal culture from working as an art and design teacher, an internet instructor and a guidance counsellor. He has also taught for Lakehead University Visual Arts/Distance Education, L.U. Faculty of Education and Confederation College. He has written courses for the Ministry of Education, been an advisor for the Ontario Arts Council. He is also noted for his musical talent and comissioned design work. Vesa had a major 'Regional Artists' series' exhibition in 2004 at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. In 2006 he won the 'City of Thunder Bay Culture & Heritage Award' for Visual Art, due to his many accomplishments in that area.
Joyce Seppala
(Studio Location)
530 E. Victoria Avenue
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Tel: (807)624-0022
Email: seppalaj@tbaytel.net
Website: http://www.joyceseppaladesigns.com
Sculptured, appliqué coats, hats and tunics. Handscreened printed clothing.
Mac Squires
Tel: (807)767-3180
Email: squiresm@tbaytel.net
Mac Squires is an artist who observes the natural pattern of his chosen medium and develops his sketches to enhance nature’s original design. His pen and ink Sketching is done on natural found objects such as birch bark and fungus conks. A naturalist and practicing forester for 47 years, he loves to work on scenes and wildlife of the boreal forest. Mac studied under prominent local artists.
Tel: (807)684-9116
Email: johnswartwout71@yahoo.de
John Swartwout is a contemporary artist who’s work ranges from kinetic sculptures to both sound and film installations. Working within this realm of art creation for over ten years he is certainly no stranger to technological approaches within the classroom. His work on one level critiques mass culture, but in a more compelling way his installations suggest performative relationship between behavior, recognition and objects. He engages concepts of labor, work and the authority of art production under the umbrella of Pop aesthetics and modern design. Currently, he holds a BA in Art Education (1998) and an MFA in studio art (2004). John has had multiple solo and group venues in the United States, Canada, and Europe, as well as art residencies. He has experience teaching art to students with a wide range of abilities and diversities. Having been formally trained as a teacher he would be willing to develop cross-curriculum projects with educators spanning timeframes suited to the school’s and student’s needs. Please feel free to contact him for further information or to set up a consultation.
Alana Syrjanen
Tel: (807)622-7903
Email: syrj@tbaytel.net
Alana is a multi-media artist who began painting in acrylics and has since experimented with a variety of mediums. Her most recent work involves a technique that allows her to print on copper which allows for considerable detail, an important component in all of her work. Alana’s work can be seen throughout various locations in Thunder Bay, or can be purchased from the artist.
Tel: (807) 344-4273
Email: candace_elizabeth@hotmail.com
Website: www.myspace.com/seaballast
Candace is a visual artist, actress and musician.
She is a singer, songwriter and guitarist with a love for folk music.
Her "Spirit" paintings incorporate bright colour and string line, abstract elements and mark-making with an emphasis on native cultural imagery.
