The Paintbrush Blog
Featuring artists and crafts people from Guelph and surrounding area.
Margaret Peter - Painter, Print Maker
Local artist Margaret Peter is a painter and an original printmaker whose interests in texture is reflected in her floral, landscape and fossil images. Her art can be admired at galleries across Ontario. Here Margaret appears in a video as she is interviewed by Heather Martin from Local Pieces Gallery. Please click on her name above to view the video.
Heather Nagel - Fabric Artist
The felting of wool is a practice that has existed in Central Asia and parts of Europe for thousands of years. Flashing forward, anyone who has ventured into the Guelph Artisans in the Old Quebec Street Shoppes has seen the beautiful fabric pieces and felt work of local award-winning fabric artist Heather Nagel. Heather’s panels, felt pieces and felted jewelry are popular items in the Guelph Artisan store – but what is Heather’s trick for working in this ancient art?
Irene Kunhegyi - Painter
Local artist Irene Kunhegyi has won awards for her work at several Ontario competitions by “doing her thing”. In fact, she acknowledges something that most artists know, that sometimes paintings themselves will do what they want and not what we want them to do. So just what inspires this Hungarian-Canadian artist?
Chris Nasager - Cabinet Maker
Chris Nasager is a local master cabinet maker who trained in a small village in Denmark. Among many projects, Chris has been involved in a number of community-based events and wood turning competitions, producing skillfully produced works of art that are functional and beautiful. But did you know that Chris and his work has even been celebrated in an Alberta museum?
Celia Brit - Painter
A first-place award in the Overzealous Art Exhibition in Toronto for a painting of her brother standing by a fire underscored to
Celia Britt that she was back where she needed to be. Using a representational approach, Celia’s art aims to suspend the viewer in a moment of time; to be able to put themselves in that space that she has painted and to be drawn to it – to experience it.