Oksana Zhelisko - Classically trained in Eastern Europe, Oksana began her career as an artist in L'viv, Ukraine. Oksana entered the Ivan Trush College of Decorative Arts in 1996. There, she studied all aspects of art and decided to make painting, especially of murals, her specialty. In 2001, she held her first solo exhibition at the L'viv University of Ivan Franko. It was in preparing her works for this show that she realized she had a love for the medium of oil. She finds that the truest hues are to be found in this medium due to its prolonged drying time and its ease in mixing. She finds it best to begin her work, not on a crisp, blank canvas, but on one that has been coloured, and or stained to allow her chosen medium to release its inner beauty and charm. Although aptly able to capture any image with an artist's eyes, Oksana's work as of late has revolved around the theme of woman in various stages, poses, and emotions. She equates her disdain of starting on a blank canvas to that of simply painting woman as an exercise in figure. In her view, woman is neither crisp nor blank, but coloured and tinged; each being an image or an iconoclast that is warm, or perhaps cold, but always strong, alluring, full of mystique, and of course, true inner beauty. Her most recent works have been displayed in various galleries. Her clients include Edmonton Mayor Stephen and Lynn Mandel. She currently resides in Edmonton.

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Richard Dixon-Richard Dixon is a professional fine artist of 32 years experience who has exhibited globally for the past 25 years.He has owned galleries and art publishing enterprises operating on a worldwide scale, currently using these skills to manage art projects related to exhibitions of his own art and that of other talented artists. Since the fall of 2005, he has been concentrating on developing as a plein air artist of landscapes, having taken painting exhibitions to Northern California, the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, and along the Oregon coast in an effort to experience as many varying forms of light and landscape as possible.The primary focus of his art is the presentation of images that reflect the history, cultures, landscape and mythology of Western Canada and the Western Arctic regions.To this end he has for the last 20 years created paintings that are historical dramas of life in Western Canada during the eras of the fur trade and native occupation of the land, many of which hang in major corporate, government, museum and private collections worldwide.Presently he is creating a series of 121 works that present the essence and early history of the North Saskatchewan River Valley at Edmonton, Alberta. This three-year project will result in the publication of a full-colour art book in the summer of 2008 containing the 121 images. To date, 57 works are either in process or are complete.His series "The Canadian Spirit Series" were the official gift presentations at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. For more information visit Richard's web site. The Spirit Series of limited edition prints is now available at ArtBuySellTrade.com

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Linda Sue Fisher - Linda was born in Indiana and raised in the small community of Zionsville, just outside of Indianapolis. Most of her childhood was spent exploring the acreage her family lived on. Her father was an architect and took the family on many excursions, visiting the buildings, museums and art galleries they encountered. Her mother had many creative interests, as well, including sewing, weaving, pottery and general crafts.
Linda attended the Herron School of Art for her undergraduate work, focusing on printmaking and painting. She did her graduate studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado where she received her Masters Degree in Printmaking. She moved to Edmonton, with her husband, in 1972 to take a job at the University of Alberta in the Printmaking Department.
In 1975, she took a job at Grant MacEwan College, in Edmonton, teaching printmaking, drawing and design. She continues to teach Foundations and Drawing at Grant MacEwan College.
Linda moved to Stony Plain three years ago from an acreage. While she has continued to paint throughout her teaching career, she has been more active in the last few years with shows at Headlines, in Manulife Place, the Multicultural Centre in Stony Plain and various retail stores in the Edmonton area.
Her landscapes, still life pieces and portraits deal with light and colour. Many of the pieces reflect the people who have shaped them. The portraits she paints are of people she encounters on the street, at an event or people she knows. The work reflects observation and personal feelings about the subjects.

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Lynne Huras-Lynne was born and raised in the creative environment of the theatre town of Stratford, Ontario. She has, like many artists before her, found her artistic expression in the breathtaking beauty of nature. She is a graduate of the Art & Art History program at the University of Toronto/Sheridan College and, on what was to be a short stop in Banff in 1992, Lynne found endless fuel for her artistic passions in the trees, rocks and water of the Rocky Mountains. She enjoys spending hours walking, sitting and sketching outdoors, absorbing the sensations of a natural experience and then taking those sketches and feelings home to translate them onto canvas. Her hope is to convey to the viewer the peace and awe she finds in, and the respect she has for, our magical home – this planet. Like many artists, she derives her principal inspiration from the breathtaking beauty of nature which surrounds her in her home town of Banff. Lynne's latest accomplishments include painting the backdrops for the Esso ESO Symphony for Kids production of "Winter Solstice- a Rocky Mountain Fairy Tale" . She has also illustrated a book by Calgary author Joe Pavelka , "Ned: The Story of Bear Six Nine Three" published by Rocky Mountain Books. See Lynne Huras website for more information.

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Lorraine Oberg - Lorraine realizes her passion for the arts in her paintings. Coming from a Ukrainian heritage (nee Kereliuk), a father who loved his violin and a mother whose rich creative persona enveloped the entire family, resulted in Lorraine's deep appreciation of art and music. Studies in the arts include; Banff Centre for the Arts, Pottery West, Pros Art Studio and Gallery, visiting art museums and studying the works of the masters.Visit Lorraine Oberg's web page for more information.

 

 

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Svala Arnason Dunn (Val) has been drawing as long as she can remember. As a child she would draw on anything handy, her schoolbooks,margins of her scribblers,even in her Mother's cookbook. The Eaton's catalogue was her textbook on anatomy. When the time was right she taught herself to paint by reading books, by looking at artwork and studying the masters. she attended artists' workshops. She experimented a lot. Her favorite medium and first love is oil paint, then water colors and acrylics and she quite often does fiinished works in pen and ink or pencil. she likes to try different media and she also works in stained glass, and clay.She loves the challenge and the joy of taking a scene that she loves and translating it into paint. She loves the stimulation that comes from beginning and then completing a work.Her subject matter comes from her surroundinggs, wild and tame flowers, farmers' fields in all their seasons, the tremendous luminous skys of the northern prairies, and probably most often a wildly beautiful creek that flows past her country home. She likes to paint scenes that we think of as commonplace, such as roadsides, a patch of swamp grass, or the fallen and falling trees about to rejoin the earth. By painting them, she is in a small way able to pay homage to the life around us that we so seldom get a chance to pause and admire. What she hopes for most for the viewers of her work, is that it might move them to also feel wonder at the natural landscapes in their lives. She paints as she sees, in a natural or realistic manner, working to portray the land and give it its due of love and respect.For more information visit Val Dunn's website.

 

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James C. Brager-Jim Brager, born in 1938, grew up in a small community east of Camrose, Alberta. His interest in art was triggered by experiences in a one-room country school house that included drawing on the blackboard during recess on cold winter days. Graduating from the Alberta College of Art in Calgary in 1971, Jim began work as a Commercial Artist at a printing firm in Saskatoon. Returning to Camrose in 1976 with his wife and two sons, Jim opened the JB Graphics Design Studio, and later the Paulson Street Art Gallery. Six years later the Gallery was closed so he could devote more time to painting in his new home studio. Jim was accepted into the Alberta Society of Artists in 1994 and was selected as a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolours on May 4, 1996. His paintings have been accepted in the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC) annual open juried show in the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto.

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Pam Weber - Pam was born , nurtured, educated, rebelled, and worked in Kitchener, Ontario. Her Grade 8 yearbook reads, "Future Ambition: Artist". It took more than a decade to fully realise that dream but today she is living it. The road was often winding: a Bachelor of Arts with a Fine Art Major from the University of Guelph; owning and running a successful screen printing business called Oink Ink; marriage and a move to Ottawa; a brief stint as an opaque artist for the Raccoon series at Hinton Animation Studio; a graphic production artist; three boys in three years; and a move to Calgary. Today Pam is represented by numerous galleries, is in public and corporate collections; is an active member of The Alberta Society of Artists and an associate member of The Federation of Canadian Artists.In addition to her continuing evolution as an artist, Pam has some new dreams: learn to tap dance, knit, and illustrate a children's book, not necessarily in that order. Visit Pam Weber's web page for more information.

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