Arts on the Trail

The Participating Artists
Arts on the Trail brings together an eclectic and exciting group of professional artists from across Northern Ontario. Our artists will showcase many different mediums including painting, pottery, wood turning, jewellery, fibre, mixed media, stained glass, sculpture and much more!

Sheila Currie

705-842-3599
watercoloursbysheila@gmail.com
Sheila’s travel of 7 continents combined with a 35-year education career, have contributed to subject material incorporated in her creations. Her art portrays cultural awareness and global understanding.

Jim and Joanie Lindamood

705-461-1745
jjl1234@eastlink.ca
Jim carves lifelike birds from tupelo or basswood while Joanie completes them with detailed painting. The work is then mounted on natural driftwood. Their connection to nature is a joy to them.

Kathleen Parr

705-246-2281
wildestrawberries@gmail.com
Website: www.artsonstjoe.com
An obsession with fabric led Kathleen Parr to create Wilde Strawberries Studio where she creates one-of- a-kind quilts, dolls and wearable art. Kathleen is challenged to use up every last scrap.

Lisa MacDonald Waite

705-842-3441
furbearandfriends@sympatico.ca
Lisa creates unique jewellery from beach and recycled glass. Lisa also designs teddy bears, clothing and handbags made from grandma’s old fur coat and other recycled leather.

Paula Walsh

705-897-2975
paulawalsh55@hotmail.com
Paula loves working in clay, exploring texture and form. The functionality of pottery is important to Paula and she strives to make each piece unique, “a way to bring art into our every-day lives”.

Johanna Westby

705-923-0570
j.westby.design@gmail.com
A Graphic Designer and Illustrator, Johanna teaches in the School of Arts & Design at Cambrian College. Using detail, pattern, and vivid colour her work incites movement and visual interest.

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Fibre-Weaving
705-848-2535
jgrumm@gmail.com
These four artists’ love of nature, colour, texture and the challenge of complex patterns results in unique, useful and one of a kind items.

Lidia Silvestrova

705-946-3676
lidiasilvestrova@hotmail.com
Lidia Silvestrova hand-paints wooden eggs and Matroshka Dolls in traditional Russian style, as well as nature scenes, Christmas and Easter themes.

Nancy Cloutier

705-849-8920
wonderwomann30@yahoo.ca
From an artistic family, Nancy enjoyed taking art classes in high school. She has been inspired, through Facebook and YouTube, to create some very unique acrylic pouring and resin paintings.

Brittany MacLean

705-206-1671
brittany.maclean@hotmail.com
With Northern Ontario wildlife as her subject matter Brittany uses a mixed media approach, with vintage sheet music, book pages and more. Each piece is a one of a kind.

Gwen Goulet

Facebook: @GwensArtisanJewellery
Twitter: @photogirl_2000
Instagram: gwendlyngoulet
Tumblr: ggartisanjeweler
A self-taught artisan, Gwen’s techniques include wire work, metalsmithing, fold-form and upcycling to make both jewellery and ornamental work.

Doug & Mike

705-848-5262
souliere@eastlink.ca
miketmullins@hotmail.com
Friends since coming to Elliot Lake in the 50’s, Doug and Mike have joined to exhibit their passion for turning local wood. Each piece is a work of joy.

Conrad Bobiwash

705-975-3956
conradbobiwash@yahoo.com
An Educator and Designer, Conrad’s work in watercolour is expressive, emotional, opens the hearts of viewers and provokes the human soul.

Maggie Foran

705-848-5048
maggieforan814@gmail.com
An innovative artist, Maggie works in various media including watercolours, drawing, lithography, and fabric.

Lillian Asquith

705-578-2735
laa5334@gmail.com
Lillian has studied watercolour, oil, and silk painting. Known for her vibrant and dramatic use of colours, her work can be found in public and private collections in North American and Europe.

Murray Finn

Wood
705-848-3855
lmfinn@eastlink.ca
Murray Finn enjoys designing and making boxes and small furniture items using a variety of native and exotic woods. Sometimes the items are utilitarian, sometimes decorative.

Linda Finn

705-848-3855
lmfinn@eastlink.ca
Linda Finn is a painter/printmaker who likes to mix it up, combining different processes that result in unusual pieces that are thought-provoking and often fun.

Lennard Hannigan

sky_ny_rd@hotmail.com
Facebook: “Turnings and Such”
Turned from locally harvested woods and accented with locally harvested natural stone inlays this Elliot Lake artists work focuses on open and closed segmented turnings, and tea candle holders.

Zoey Wood-Salomon

705-759-4897
zoeyjimws@shaw.ca
Paintings in the traditional Woodland style reflect Zoey’s Odawa heritage. Her paintings are marked by a combination of her own spiritual odyssey as a Christian, everyday experiences and the traditional legends of her heritage.

Doug Clute

705-246-0003
dacssm@gmail.com
Hand crafted unique walking sticks from St. Joseph Island hardwoods. We search the hillside for saplings that can support life-long adventures and select only a few with character as our raw material.

Laura-Leigh Gillard

705-618-1157
lauraleighbee@gmail.com
Laura-Leigh Gillard’s work is inspired by her journey of self-discovery, an attempt to better understand her personal relationship with the world around her.

Dani Lynn Redgrift-Berthelot

Photography
705-521-3382
www.dlrphotography.ca
reddl@homerj.net
Dani Lynn’s passion is photography— capturing landscapes, reflections, old cars, barns, and buildings and bringing them to life from different angles and perspectives.

Lise Portelance

Woven Blankets
porteliseleo@xplornet.ca
(705) 843-2789
Lise weaves beautiful and colourful French Canadian traditional blankets called "catalognes" She also uses modern fibres to create blankets of different sizes and weights.

Diane Bode

Acrylics/Mixed Media
dpmaple@gmail.com
Diane Bode creates bright, fluid artworks by pouring acrylics over a variety of substrates. Controlled, but not always predictable, the results are stunning!

Jola Klim

Pottery, Jewellery, Painting
www.jk-atelier-jolaklim.ca
jolaklim@gmail.com
705-847-2712
Jola loves abstract art on food-friendly stoneware ceramics, paintings, and one-of-a-kind jewelry in silver and copper. Lately, she has added Raku firing for decoration only to her ceramics.

JoAnne Nicholls

Embossing on Metal & Wood
705-578-2477
joanne@colibricreations.ca
JoAnne creates laser embossed rolling pins, cutting boards and spoons, embossed metal boxes, plaques and frames that are both functional and decorative.