Muskoka Chair Gallery
White cedar Muskoka chairs made locally are primed, painted & coated with a protective top layer to ensure their durability. Artists are paid for their work and the gallery is refreshed every year. If you are interested in any of the works you can enter the silent auction online! Chairs are released at the end of September.
Ghazaleh Rastgar
Ghazaleh Rastgar is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who grew up in Shiraz, Iran and later moved to Toronto, Canada. She graduated from OCADU where she obtained her Bachelor of Design. Her body of work explores concepts of love, life and identity and is inspired by nature, the human body, sensuality, and positivity. She has created artwork as illustrations, animated gifs, paintings and murals.
@ghazaraza
Yasaman Mehrsa
Bio: Yasaman Mehrsa is a Toronto-based Multidisciplinary Artist. Born and raised in Tehran/Iran, she got exposed to art from a young age. She completed her studies with a Bachelor of Visual Communication and Graphic Design from Iran and later achieved Bachelor with honours in Visual Arts at Brock University, Canada. Yasaman's work is often representative of awareness of the human-nature relationship. Inspiring by nature, she creates storytelling arts and expresses different emotions in each of them to inspire her audiences to discover their imagination, feeling, and interaction with the natural environment. Yasaman works both in traditional and digital styles. She also has a strong passion for public art and has worked on various projects for communities and organizations since 2018.
@yasamanmehrsa
Natalie Very B.
Natalie Very B. is a Polish-Canadian illustrator, muralist, and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). She is currently concluding her studies at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute (TATI) in pursuit of a graduate diploma in Art Therapy. Having grown up in a country with a strong patriarchal regime and an obvious system of inequality, she strives to use her art to educate people about the importance of anti-oppressive practices.
Her bold and bright murals depicting the themes of nature and modern female empowerment can be found all across Ontario. She makes public art with the goal of changing preconceived notions of feminism by promoting self-love and body neutrality in the world.
Asli Aslin
Asli is a multidisciplinary artist traversing disciplines of painting, installation and photography who holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. She has been commissioned to create public art in Canada and Europe and her work has been featured in a number of galleries throughout Toronto and abroad. Asli lives and works in Toronto.
@aslialin
Caroline Whelan
Caroline W is a freelance illustrator from Scarborough, Ontario, now living in Chicoutimi, Québec. She is a graduate of the illustration program at OCADU. She has done work for TFO (Téléfrançais Ontario), and has illustrated books for independent authors. On the side, she also creates illustrated products, such as pins, magnets, prints, and greeting cards.
Her work is inspired by nature, the world of dreams, travel, and children’s literature.
@carolinewillustration
Amanda PL
BROOKLIN
Brooklin Stormie is an artist and illustrator based in Peterborough Ontario, her hometown. She is arecent grad from OCAD University’s illustration program, a freelance illustrator, and a believer in dragons. Brooklin is extremely curious about the world, and seeks out opportunities for magic to happen; it is this passion that drives her work. Her current focus is on children’s media, including picture books and graphic novels. Brooklin enjoys exploring the many ways mythology has shaped our realities, and this was the subject of her recent thesis project at OCADU.
@brooklinstormie
Robyn Lightwater
Robyn Lightwalker has been an artist her whole life, full time artist for the past 7 years.
She is a painter illustrator, sculptor, and is always trying out new mediums. Her work is often colourful, and walks the line between realism and impressionism. She is always looking for new and interesting angles and trying to find the beauty in everything.
@thelightwalker93
MEL COLEMAN
Mel Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist working in Toronto. Her recent focus has been towards murals and a partnership with Cesar Neuromatix as ALYWYZ. (sounds like alley ways) Her practice includes everything from painting to re-appropriating discarded waste. Common themes in her work involve gender issues, consumerism & the climate crisis.
@melscoleman @alywyzmurals
Ebru Kur
Ebru Kur, an artist originally from Istanbul, Turkey, creates digital artworks, mixed
media paintings and unconventional installations. Through an exploration of traditional and digital media, Kur attempts to examine everyday struggles and produces images that can communicate concepts that would require pages of writing.
What began as a personal journey to find herself has translated into various overlapping themes and strategies. Her idiosyncratic artworks are characterized by using everyday objects and are saturated with obviousness, uneasiness, pop culture and wordplay. With a subtle minimalistic approach, she creates works that resonate with her heavily diverse and heterogeneous Turkish culture and her education in city planning.
She is currently studying Visual and Digital Arts at Humber College, and she resides in Toronto.