Spring has Sprung at Artscape Wychwood Barns!
Spring has Sprung at Artscape Wychwood Barns!
We can’t wait to see you at the Spring Barns Art Market!
The Market will feature amazing creations from local artists, makers and creatives. Perfect for that special someone – offerings will include ceramics, jewellery, paintings, sculpture, photographs and more!
Check out our amazing roster of exhibitors below, and make sure you don’t miss out.
The Market will take place indoors on May 27th at Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie Street) from 10:00AM-3:00PM on Doors Open weekend.
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Angela Cho |
Angela Cho is a designer and ceramicist. Her research is driven by a preoccupation with the ethics and ironies of preservation efforts in architecture, which she primarily investigates through casting processes. In her ceramic work, her pieces tend to evoke bodies—human bodies, plant bodies—without crossing into being representational. Across all disciplines, her interest is in material itself and in letting her work bear figural and textural signs of manual process and manual thinking.
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Bareket Kezwer |
The Gratitude Exchange in a participatory performance art piece and an invitation for community building around a collective practice of celebrating the power of gratitude. Over the course of the market, I will facilitate the creation of beautiful paper chains — created by inviting folks to share something they are grateful for on a piece of paper that is added to the chain. In exchange for sharing, I gift participants a sticker or bubbles, or both.
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Carola Sanchez CaroSanchezJewellery https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/CaroSanchezJewellery
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My mission is to create real beauty from the inside, to harmonize us with the world through unique pieces of jewelry art. My vision is to create true craftsmanship with a real commitment to the environment, renewing and bringing the jewelry art to the 21st century through originality, dedication and respect for all living things. Fashion must be a statement of your true self and not a mere display of luxury.
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Cate McGuire Fashion Monsters https://www.thefashionmonsters.com/
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In the Fashion Monsters workshop fashion comes to life in the shape of monsters that once were your abandoned clothing choices. Desperately seeking unconditional love in their second life, these upcycled monsters need a home. The Fashion Monster is a unique creature. Each is designed and sewn individually then stuffed with clean poly fill then hand-detailed. Because they are partially made from material that was destined for recycling, with notions that have been donated from family and friends, there are no two alike. A Fashion Monster is a terrific gift item for all art and fashion lovers
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Daria Beer |
I work in digital and analog collage. I use found images as a starting point and make them into something new, a brand-new story. My collages focus mostly on women and contain a lot of influence from nature. I work very intuitively and take my inspiration from my travels, artists such as Frida Kahlo, and surrealist art. I make both digital and analog collages. I use a mix of photos that I take, ones sourced online, and from old magazines and books, as well as found objects. My digital work is printed on paper, metal, or as giclée prints.
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Carmela Casuccio |
I am a contemporary abstract artist currently working in acrylic on watercolour paper mounted on wood panels. Bold jewel tone colours and a strong linear sense characterize my abstracted images of imagined places and non-objective work. My latest pressed and molded paper paintings on wood have a sculptural form that furthers my exploration of depth in the visual and emotional sense. I have many years of experience as an artist and my best work comes when I allow my creative intuition to let the colours and gestural images emerge in layers and share their mysteries with me.
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Darlene Kulig D.M. Kulig Design darlenekuligartist.ca |
Early in my youth, I developed a love for drawing. Everyday objects, faces, and scenes would inspire me to draw and revealed to me a place of total contentment. Originally from Ottawa, I moved to Toronto to study at the Ontario College of Art & Design. Working as a Graphic Designer for 20 years as well as running my own studio have proven to be the training ground that developed a strong work ethic and a solid tool box. The designer in me loves simple shape and bold colour while the painter in me explores light, rhythm, and strives to reveal the essence of my subjects.
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Deborah D’Urzo Finds and Favourites
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/FindsandFavourites?ref=hdr_shop_menu/ |
Throughout my evolution as an artist, I have held firm to a passion for creating handmade treasures that reflect the quality and craftsmanship that go into every step of the creative process. With my primary focus being sterling silver jewelry and luxurious hand-made textile accessories, my work allows me to imagine and create new designs, as well as work with my clients to craft custom pieces that possess great significance.
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Dinesh Subramanian
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Growing up in India, I loved art but pursued engineering as my parents wished. However, I couldn’t resist my passion and moved to Canada to become an artist. My art is a reflection of my journey as an immigrant and an artist, as I strive to find a sense of belonging and connection in this new environment. Through my paintings, I hope to offer a new perspective on the beauty and complexity of Toronto, and to encourage viewers to pause and appreciate the hidden details of their surroundings. Pursuing art has taught me perseverance, appreciation for small things, and following passions.
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Erika Squires Erika Squires Photography
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Art has always been an incredibly important part of my life. It’s the reflection of what I see and feel. As a visual person, art is my way of expressing my innermost perspective. I have been painting since I was a child. I have also been drawn to photography for a long time, and I started to get serious about it a number of years ago. I am interested in Nature and Wildlife Photography, and have been immersing myself in this for a number of years, and have started to show and sell my photography. I also want to share my passion for wildlife and conservation.
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Heather Palmer-Saettone |
As a potter and ceramic artist, I draw my inspiration from the material itself and the natural world. Through functional pieces, my work reflects upon the human impact of our changing environment. The subtlety of our changing climate is captured, both literally and figuratively, in the slow movement of the glaze along the clay, slightly blurred, in some instances, like a mirage. Strong lines and contrasting colours reference the urban landscape, creating unique but timeless pieces. @hpsceramics
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Jilly Frances |
I paint the sky every day of the year (marking the days of 2020 onward) with nontoxic watercolours on cold press paper. As an artist living in a busy city, these fragmented glimpses of the sky – no matter how glowing, faded, gloomy, bruised, or blazing – are my reminder to pay attention. Capturing a moment in time, I hope to imbue the temporal with a sense of gratitude; the sky’s existence as fleeting and eternal as our own memory. The skies, ever-present, a witness to all of our moments.
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Laura Warren-Causton B.side Projects |
Laura Jean Marie is b. side projects, a small ceramics studio in Toronto. She make small batch, hand thrown pottery in mostly a natural palette, often leaving the exterior of the piece unglazed, while the interior is glazed to ensure it is food safe and water sealed. Inspiration comes mostly from architectural forms and from the desert, where she has spent a significant amount of time. Laura’s work is functional and timeless. She makes tableware, plant pots, and intuitively formed vases.
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Lili Xu |
People are my subject. I’m attracted to facial expression and body gesture. They make bold statement without the need of words. I grow up in China. There, is a society promotes collective interests. Individuals are regarded as components of group, and sometimes need to sacrifice for the “greater good”, but, it is the personal experience and feelings I care the most. I put on canvas what I found touching, and believing that’s what separates us as human with everything else.
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Esther Maloney Carmel Futures |
My practice and interests revolves around themes of cyclicality, freedom and the land in an urban context. At some point in my 2020 drawing journey, I offered to mail postcards of my artwork to friends to uplift their hearts. I sent some fifty postcards that spring and continued to experiment with printing my digital work on greeting cards, notebooks, tote-bags and tea towels. My work is bright, colourful and full of the patterns of nature.
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Meagan Burdick |
This body of work is inspired by natures hidden gems that I explore with my daughter on our many hikes around southern Ontario. My work is created using both acrylic and oil paint. Acrylic is used first to create base layers and map out composition. With the use of palette knives, oil comes in as a finishing touch to bring in some delicious texture. In my landscapes you will always find texture and splashes of unexpected colour, this comes from my need to find whimsy and magic in the world around us. I hope to transport viewers into natures hidden gems and find the magic within.
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eXavier Peterson eX Press Art
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Relief printing is a favourite medium since each time my drawings turn into an image entirely its own. I try to capture the individuality of each animal I portray. As we view them, they view us. I choose to print with black ink as it highlights the graphic lines I achieve when carving the image from sketch on the block.
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Michelle Lee
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I make art that is small and light enough to carry with you under any circumstance. Humorously, I conceptualized ‘pocket works for the apocalypse’, an ongoing series of miniature paintings on hand built ceramic pendants. The images I create using underglazes are dreamlike interpretations of people and places. Through their wearable form, I’m able to explore the intimate connection between person and object.
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Wendy Tancock |
I’m an illustrator designing GREETING CARDS and PRINTS specializing in Canadian themes. I’ll have lots of Christmas/Holiday cards. “I’m a Toronto based illustrator, with an extensive line of Canadian themed greeting cards and prints. I’ve added a new line celebrating local Toronto architecture. I’ve been designing for over 20 years |
Nicole Kagan |
My artwork reminds the viewer to pause and locate their ‘center’ amidst the chaos of life. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, my mixed-media paintings are layered and lush, thoughtful and evocative. My ‘Meditative Muses’ print series explores creative expression as a meditation in the form of luminous hand-detailed symbols, while my newer ‘Trees of Life’ and ‘Flight Patterns’ series combine ink and watercolour forms with symbolic photographic elements.
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Patricia Vega Sacolle |
I am a visual artist and graphic designer living in Mulmur, Ontario. “Since I can remember, I have been fascinated by creating new things and exploring materials. I enjoy traditional crafts. In addition to my passion for woodcut and linocut, I am currently working on a new body of work on the cyanotype process, using primarily botanical elements on fabric and on Western and Japanese papers. My inspiration comes from the abstract to the real, from life around me, from nature, or from graphic forms. Everything inspires me in one way or another.”
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Pete Ellison |
Pete Ellison is a multi-disciplinary artist, with a practice based in illustration and design. His bold and colorful graphic characters remix the cartoons, arcade games, and breakfast cereals of the 80’s and 90’s into something that’s both retro and timeless. With frequent nods to underground subcultures, Pete’s art is playful celebration of pop culture visual excess and queer joy. Utilizing equal parts digital and analog mediums, Pete’s body of work includes screen printed apparel, limited edition art prints, original paintings, murals, installations, merchandise design and music production.
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Rea Kelly |
Nature, trees, and especially flowers have captured my spirit and motivated me to paint ever since I could grasp a crayon. I typically paint from my own photography or recollections of walks in nature. Experimentation is at the core of my practice. My works exist in multiple mediums. Though they may shift, the focus is always nature. We know that being in nature heals us. My hope is that my works, rooted in nature, deliver peace and inspiration to your space.
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Samy Sabani |
Samy Sabani is a nonrepresentational painter based in Ontario, exploring the intersection between digital and traditional mediums. A self-taught digital artist who transitioned to oil painting through his studies at Humber College. The “Spliced Swirls” series showcases his distinct technique of mimicking digital tools. These mesmerizing paintings explore color, line, and value, inviting the viewer to reflect on the role of technology in art and the importance of preserving human creativity.
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Saskia Wassing https://www.instagram.com/saskiawdesigns/ |
My embroideries are grounded and intertwined with my observations, imagination, experiences and memories. I take comfort in celebrating the connections to the people and places that I cherish. Birds capture my imagination with their colourful plumage and habits, often becoming playful characters in my work, the NZ Fantail is a favourite. Referencing my sketchbook drawings, I embroider by hand and with my basic domestic sewing machine as drawing tools. I stitch freely, building up with thread the images, patterns and textures that communicate my joyful and colourful textiles.
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Tina Shan https://tinashan.co |
“Please live, please be like the fierce evening sun, like the fire that burns all darkness until the end of life, please be like the countless shining stars that give life to the cold night, please live, and remember that although life has an end, our spirit never ends.” I wrote this paragraph in my sketchbook after working on a very intimate piece, and I think it describes me and my entire body of work. My work embodies a strong passion for life, which stems from my personal experiences.
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Yasmine Louis |
The work I will be showing at Barns Art Markets is my screenprinted line of shirts C’EST COMME ÇA. For me silkscreening is a creative tool. My shirts are printed using a combination of two to six prints. Most of my designs are from photographs that I took around Toronto, and are text-based. I like to focus on the narrative behind the design as much as the print. My customers identify with my poetic words, and appreciate my attention to quality. All clothing is made for all genders in North America by safe, eco-friendly and non-discriminatory companies, and silkscreened by myself.
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Marsha Stonehouse
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Canadian artist, healer, and Reiki Master based in Toronto.
My work is centred around healing our disconnect from nature and aligning to our true self
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Afanassi Grigoriev |
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Peter Gillett |
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| Alma Roussy
https://alma-art.com/ |
Alma Roussy is a Canadian artist specializing in cartoon and caricature since 1983. As well as caricatures at corporate events, illustration and murals, she illustrates on-site corporate speeches/meetings, draws political cartoons and travels around the world, sketching. She speaks Spanish, French and semi-fluent Indonesian.
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| Wayne Wightman |
During your visit you’ll also have a chance to pick up fresh produce and favourite snacks from The Stop’s weekly Farmer’s Market. From 8AM – 1PM outdoors in the Christie Courtyard and in Barn 5.
Arriving by TTC Artscape Wychwood barns is located between the Christie St. And Wychwood Ave. streetcar stops on the 512 Route, and just a short walk west from the St. Clair West Subway Station.
Arriving by Car Please note there is no parking at The Wychwood Barns Park, there is limited street parking within our neighborhood, with parking available on Christie St., and several Green P parking lots located nearby on St. Clair Avenue West. More information https://parking.greenp.com/ If you have any questions about the Market you may contact bam@artscape.ca
