Shaw TV has put together a nice feature on gallery artist Hashim Hannoon. Click here to view the feature.
(please note.. the video feature on Shaw’s website only seems to work with Windows Media player. Unfortunately non-windows users may not be able to view the video)
On February 27th, we invite everyone to join us in giving a warm welcome to 5 New Artists who have joined the Mayberry family over the last year. The artists we are featuring include new works by: Mandy Budan, Hashim Hannoon, Nikol Haskova, Celia Neubauer and Terry Watkinson. Several of our artists will be in attendance between 11am and 5pm. Come warm up with us and enjoy some refreshments, good company and celebrate the new talents that have joined Mayberry Fine Art.
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Featured in our Winnipeg Square exhibition space are works by Canadian artist Sara Genn. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Genn attended York House School in Vancouver and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen’s University in Kingston,Ontario. She has been showing her work professionally since the age of 18, and sold out her first solo exhibition at the age of 19. Genn is best known for her exhaustive use of colour and patterning, and repetition of motifs in her paintings. Her work often blurs the line between high art and craft and references other artforms such as quiltmaking and textile design.
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Nora Collyer was born in Montreal. She studied at the Art Association of Montreal, one of the few art institutions that admitted female students at the time. The school was directed by RCA president, William Brymner. At the AAM (which later became the Montreal Museum of Fine Art), she received professional instruction from Brymner and [...]
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Alfred Joseph Casson was born in Toronto, Ontario and spent his childhood in Guelph and Hamilton. He attended art classes and worked as a freelance commercial designer. At the age of 21 Casson was hired as a designer by the commercial art firm Rous and Mann and worked under the guidance of Franklin Carmichael. The young artist soon started taking weekend sketching trips with Carmichael and was introduced to the other members of the Group of Seven. Casson was a fine watercolourist who, together with Franklin Carmichael and F.H. Brigden, founded the Ontario Society of Painters in Water Colour in 1925. The following year Casson accepted an invitation from Carmichael to join the Group of Seven. Throughout his career Casson was an enthusiastic spokesperson for the Group’s achievements. Casson died in 1992 at the age of 94 and is buried along side other members of the Group of Seven in the cemetery located on the McMichael’s grounds.
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Born in Danzig, (then Germany), in 1896, Fritz Brandtner was conscripted into the German Army in 1915. He spent most of the war as a prisoner of war, in France. After World War One, he returned to Germany, and studied art at the University of Danzig where he taught life drawing in the Architecture Department. [...]
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Born in Ottawa. Served in the Royal Canadian Navy during WWI. Completed a Law degree in 1922 and the same year attended life drawing classes at the Ontario College of Art, under J.W. Beatty. He developed a style of decorative realism in his painting and taught at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art. He became [...]
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(1909 – 2001) RCA
Born in Toronto. Studied at the Ontario College of Art under J.W. Beatty and J.E.H. MacDonald. He attended summer classes at Franz Johnston’s Georgian Bay art school. During the war, he turned his hand to commercial work and became an extremely successful illustrator. His fine art painting encompassed both realism and impressionism. [...]
Leo Mol was born in Ukraine in 1915. He studied at the Leningrad Academy of Arts and later continued his studies in Berlin and the Hague. In 1948 he and his wife, Margareth, came to Canada and made their home in Winnipeg.
A sculptor of world renown, he carried out commissions of world figures such as Pope John Paul II, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John Diefenbaker. He became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and in 1989 was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of his artistic contributions to his adopted country. The Leo Mol Sculpture Garden officially opened in Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park in 1992. Since that time the garden has attracted visitors from the around the world and enriched the cultural life of Winnipeg.
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Maud Lewis was born, Maud Dowley, in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. She began painting with her mother. Together they would paint hundreds of Christmas cards every year, to sell on the streets of Yarmouth. When she married, she and her husband Everett Lewis moved into a tiny 10 by 12 foot cabin, without electricity, water, [...]
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Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop remains one of the most significant painters of the last two decades in Canada. Recently she has explored ideas of memory and landscape, and the accumulated images and motifs which form a coherent representation of place. The places depicted in the paintings are not real, however, but are conjured out the [...]
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