Featured Artist in September & October, 2024

Kim Stone

I am a watercolour and oil painting artist based in East York, Ontario. I began my artistic journey in California as a young child of ten given instruction in drawing, watercolour painting at various community centres near my childhood home of Costa Mesa. Currently, I am studying watercolour painting techniques at Melinda Calways’s private studio...
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Featured Artist in July & August, 2024

Sanjay Shakyaver

I have been on a journey that I think many artists go on. It is a journey that begins with copying, then incorporating, then emulating – and then finally creating. The stage I think I am in is between emulating and creating something original…
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Featured Artist in May & June, 2024

Tuovi Traub

What better way to spend one’s free time than to be involved in artistic pursuits. I must admit, however, that “free time” is pretty much now lost as this pursuit has taken over. I’ve been actively involved in life drawing and painting since the early 2000’s – initially starting with life drawing, then painting in acrylics and now exclusively in oils…
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Featured Artist in March & April, 2024

Deborah Parrott

I’m primarily a self taught artist living in the Toronto area and have been painting and drawing since I was quite young. I paint mostly in acrylic, but in the last couple of years, I have been doing some collage and mixed media. Although collage may look like a simple process, it is in fact quite challenging and using paper is very unforgiving...
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Featured Artist in January & February, 2024

Sherrill Girard

I am a painter and primarily watercolourist who makes my home in the vibrant and diverse community of Scarborough, Ontario. I have settled here in this corner of Canada finally after a life of living in just about every province, from the Yukon to Nova Scotia. I grew up in a military family, constantly moving and resettling…
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Featured Artist in November & December, 2023

Usha Kumar

I am Usha Kumar born in Sri Lanka which is called the pearl of the Indian Ocean and currently I live in Toronto. My interest towards art began during my young age, and became my hobby as many other artists. I did not get the opportunity to develop that interest while I was back in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, I was a mother of two children and working full time as an…
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Featured Artist in September & October, 2023

Kay Hubbard

Kay’s interest in painting began when she completed Art Education courses at the University of Illinois. Sessions with numerous well-respected artists have added to her knowledge of the medium and inspired her work. She had the privilege of studying at the Haliburton School of Arts each Summer while staying at her cottage in Haliburton…
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Featured Artist in July & August, 2023

Susan Farrow

I began my artistic explorations as a classically trained clarinetist and music educator and realized fairly early that the arts bring me peace and a meaningful outlet for self-expression. I find joy in creating things that I think are beautiful and encouraging others to explore their own abilities to express themselves through the arts…
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Featured Artist in May & June, 2023

Carolyne Pascoe

Carolyne was born and raised in Toronto. As a child she knew that she wanted to be a teacher and pursed that career at University of Toronto for 4 years in the Faculty of Physical and Health Education earning her BPHE and then her Bachelor of Education degree in 1972. She always wondered if she had any artistic talent since…
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Featured Artist in May & June, 2023

Carole Robitaille

Art has played a major part in my life. The older I become, the stronger the passion and desire has grown to paint more. I love art and have worked with many mediums. I love to explore the inexhaustible possibilities art has to offer and find the process fulfilling and rewarding….
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Featured Artist in March & April, 2023

Jacquie Tjandra

I was born and raised in Newfoundland and most of my landscape paintings are inspired by the beauty of the coast there. I have been drawing since I could pick up and hold a pencil. My first aspiration was to make a living as an artist, but I was unable to access an art education in my youth…
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Featured Artist in March & April, 2023

Lesley Williams

I’ve been doing some form of art ever since age 10 when a painting I did toured the Province of Ontario as part of a children’s art exhibit. I completed the vocational art program at GS Vanier Secondary School. I did portraits as a part time vocation while working in the finance industry…
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Featured Artist in January & February, 2023

Shirley Huang

My Name is Shirley Huang. I come from Guangdong Province China. I graduated from Guangzhou University of Fine Arts. I moved to Toronto Canada in 1992. I have been a member of The Art Guild of Scarborough for 20 years ago. Watercolor painting is my favorite, followed by color-pencil drawing..
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Featured Artist in January & February, 2023

Sylvia Le Roy

Sylvia Le Roy was born in the Canadian prairies, where the sun shines brightly to the low horizons. She chose to enter a career in education and placed her art interest on the second tier. Although she continued to draw and paint throughout her working life, she vowed to make art her priority after early retirement…
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Featured Artist in November & December, 2022

Mary Jo Smith

Mary Jo Smith, an avid watercolour artist, is a longtime resident of West Hill, and a member of the Art Guild of Scarborough and Pine Ridge Arts Council. She is a retired teacher who enjoyed teaching art lessons for many years to students from Kindergarten to Grade 8. Mary Jo’s inspiration for her artwork comes from her love of gardening and…
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Featured Artist in September & October, 2022

Mina Daya

A fine work of art has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place! I have had a lifelong love of creative expression through painting and design. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, I have long enjoyed the beautiful African savanna surrounded by nature and the wildlife that has influenced my art. My earliest memories…
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Featured Artist in September & October, 2022

Valerie Russell

I was born and educated in Southampton, England and emigrated to Canada in 1969 with my husband and 2 sons and have resided in Scarborough ever since. I started drawing and painting at an early age, however that pastime would not stand me in good stead and help raise and support a family so accounting became my main source of income…
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Featured Artist in August, 2022

Perry Chow

Hi there, this is Perry Chow, a Toronto-based artist from Hong Kong. When I was a kid, I discovered that the arts brought me joy and further extended my imagination. Naturally, the interest was cultivated during my teenage years and further developed when I opted to take a visual communication course after I graduated from high school…
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Featured Artist in August, 2022

Mona Trivedi

Art is uplifting, and the joy of painting has translated into peaceful moments that have a meditative effect on me. I have enjoyed art in many forms all my life, and my current passion is acrylic and mixed media painting. From drawing and painting, to dancing and photography...
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Featured Artist in July, 2022

Joy MacFadyen

It is with great sadness that The Art Guild of Scarborough announces the death of Joy MacFadyen in June, 2022. In May, Joy had agreed to be a Featured Artist of the Art Guild and had prepared her material. In our final tribute to this remarkable woman, we use this space to present Joy MacFadyen through her words and her art…
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Featured Artist in June, 2022

Sonia Perrin

My art is about bringing the sense of joy and passion I see in the world to the viewers of my work. “For the wonders that astound us” is a line from a song of thanksgiving that inspires me. I like to capture the beauty in even the mundane objects and places. It is about seeing, of being cognizant of the world around me…
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Featured Artist in June, 2022

Nedda Riva Zaharelos

As a professional designer I work in a controlled and pressured environment. In contrast when I paint I try to free myself of all dogmas, beliefs and rules. However the structured world is still present in my abstract paintings. Most of the time my inspiration comes from interacting with the canvas; it’s like talking with a friend, sometimes we get along…
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Featured Artist in May, 2022

Gary Faulkner

I have enjoyed drawing from a young age and was influenced by my father who was a very successful commercial artist in Toronto. After school I spent seven years taking voice lessons in Toronto with a former opera singer. I performed solos at Roy Thomson Hall for a few years, anthems at a number of Blue Jay Games and was guest soloist at numerous...
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Featured Artist in May, 2022

Kay Minter

I became an Art Guild of Scarborough member, September 2021. Since then, I’ve had the joy of joining in on weekly meetings, currently held on Zoom. Often an accomplished artist, who lives somewhere in Canada, has been invited to create something special for us in their studio. As we watch, we interact with each other and the artist…
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Featured Artist in April, 2022

Garry Herridge

I was always interested in drawing, and I still have the set of dresser drawers with one of my earliest preschool drawings on the inside of the first drawer created using my mom’s lipstick. In 1958 my family moved to Scarborough when I was in elementary school way before the Town Centre was thought of and our street was still large stones and...
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Featured Artist in April, 2022

Huda Salha

Huda Salha is a Palestinian Canadian multidisciplinary artist, author and researcher based in Toronto. She works with a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, bronze casting, sculptural installations and film production/video art. Salha has participated in many art exhibitions, regionally and internationally...
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Featured Artist in March, 2022

Melinda Calway

I am inspired by all the beauty around us, in nature, and in people. I love sunrises, sunsets, flowers growing in gardens and fields, the snow, forests, and especially trees. I feel an affinity for trees, earth’s air purifiers; their beauty, variety, colour and unique shapes. They are truly magnificent! I feel so fortunate to live in this world of beauty and...
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Featured Artist in March, 2022

Adam CX

Freelance painter. Member of The Art Guild of Scarborough. Elected member of Society of Canadian Artist, Ontario Society of Artists. Graphics Design Chair of the Toronto Watercolor Society. Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Artists Association. Board member of the Canadian Oil Painting Society. Member of...
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Featured Artist in January & February, 2022

Margaret Jamieson

I am a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Signature and Lifetime member of the TWS, Member of the East Central Art Association, Associate member of the CSPWC and I have been a member of the Scarborough Art Guild for over 40 years. I have taught art for the Scarborough Board of Education and Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario...
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Featured Artist in January & February, 2022

Ann McClymont

I could probably write a book about my family and it’s connection to the art world. Here is a brief summary. After WWII my father received a scholarship to study fine art at the Ontario College of Art, consequently, my young parents and their four children moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia to the bustling city of Toronto. Someone was always painting in…
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