Rob Croxford
Rob has been working full-time on his art since 2004. In that time he has rebuilt from a devastating studio fire, painted over 1850 works of art and shown in almost 200 juried exhibitions including; The Toronto International Art Fair, The Artist Project and The One of a Kind Show. Rob is represented in both Canadian and US galleries, is in the permanent City of Toronto Art Collection, as well as numerous private collections all over the world. His art has been in a bunch of Toronto magazines, on the cover of a few magazines and he is even featured in a coffee table book! Rob has been profiled in the press, on blogs and by The Jealous Curator. Rob Croxford paintings are a carnival of colour and whimsy! His vintage-inspired work is instantly identifiable, and his clever approach to art merges pop culture, nostalgia typography and humour.
Karen Taylor
In 2004, Karen escaped from the cold, rainy weather of Scotland to settle here in Toronto. Three years later she began exhibiting her abstract paintings. Her current work celebrates the art of typography: “In our social media lives we continuously take in streams of fonts and characters. How often do we pause to take in the shape and form of these marks which convey so much information. These acrylic paintings explore the abstract patterns our words create”.
She is a member of the Ontario Society of Artists, the Society of Canadian Artists, and the Colour and Form Society.
Kamar Thomas
Kamar Thomas is a fine artist from Port Antonio, Jamaica. He studied at two universities in the United States. There, he became interested in how people present themselves, what masks they wear, and what differences there are between what people present and how they are. He makes big, colorful oil paintings of people, He teaches at Centennial College and he wrote a book about making art less boring.
Kristyn Watterworth
Kristyn Watterworth paints out of a love for colour and a need to express herself through line and movement. Her mark making and application of paint is a dance. Sometimes the dance is purely abstract, sometimes it ends up as an a portrait of a person, or animal, or something else entirely. Colour is her music, line is her rhythm.
She grew up in West Lorne, has a BFA from York University, ran an art experience centre in Bayfield for 15 years and is now living and working in Toronto, and occasionally crisscrossing the province creating colourful work everywhere.
Christine Hirt
Christine Hirt is a fine art painter specializing in oil painting with palette knives. She uses familiar images of people, architecture, food, scenes to explore colour and emotion. She has studied at the University of Toronto, George Brown College and The Ontario College of Art and Design University.