Visual Arts

Claudia Urbach is a local artist. She uses mainly oil paints but also works with a variety of media such as acrylics, watercolour and stained glass. Claudia has a BFA (honours) with a major in painting from the University of Windsor and a BEd from the University of New Brunswick in Art Education.

A fast-growing organization that brings quilters of all levels of expertise together to develop their art. The guild offers meetings, workshops, special projects, library resources, guest speakers and monthly meetings to its members. Meetings are held on 2nd Tuesday of the month from September until June, at 6600 Carrière Street, Orleans, Ontario.

Do More Canada is a student initiative with the sole goal of raising human rights awareness through arts and events. Art is expression and Do More Canada wants expression to be advocacy.

Dominic Sanson is a former helicopter pilot in the French military, and a former bush pilot in Northern Canada. Dominic left the excitement of a pilot's career for a quieter life with his family. Since he always enjoyed drawing, he traded the joystick for the pen to publish educational cartoons and comics.

I was born in Ottawa and have lived here all my life. My interest in art began in high school. Despite the encouragement of my teachers and classmates who kept telling me that I had artistic talent...

Started drowing and painting at early age of 7, continoung today, Graduated from Cairo Institute of Technolgy, in electronica communication, partcipated in the international workshop, The 9 salon of youth,Cairo, Eygpt, Attended Ottawa School of Art-still life paintnig 2005 and Algonqune Collge fundmantals of find Arts 2006.

Visual Metaphors. Seeing life as an ever changing balancing act. In “A Room of my Own” I choose the lighting, colours, shapes and humour. As a young women, I trained and worked as a technical illustrator. In 1980 I completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hon.) at the University of Ottawa

Eliane Saheurs moved to Ottawa since 1984. She studied painting and printmaking at the Ottawa School of Art and privately with well known artists in different countries. Eliane paints land forms, respecting the forces that created them millions of years ago and their evolution in today's environment.

Elizabeth (Betty) Dolan is an Ottawa born artist who has been developing her passion for the arts since 1971. Her search for landscape and other sources of inspiration is shared by other enthusiasts and friends.

Elizabeth Piccolo was initially trained in illustration and graphic design at the Ontario College of Art and Sheridan School of Design.  Her love of textiles subsequently led her to the Advanced Textile Arts Program at Capilano College and an apprenticeship with a Japanese silk artist in Victoria, BC. Although she uses several techniques in her paintings and wearable art, her specialties are indigo and Japanese shibori resist dyeing.

Elsa Black’s love of painting served as a wonderful diversion from some of the challenges of working in the health care system. Now retired, photography and art had remained top among many activities while raising a family of four children.