From June 1st to June 25th 2023
A PLACE for the ARTS
presents
Bancroft Studio Tour Artists
HOSTED BY Joanna Hankus
OPENING RECEPTION is on Thursday June 1st from 6 to 8 pm.
This show will feature a sneak peek and pre-sale opportunity of artwork from 15 artists participating in the Bancroft Studio Tour.
On display in the Annex will be a wonderful collection of artworks, watercolours, fused glass, quilts and more. Each piece represents what you will find in the various artist studios during the Bancroft Studio Tour in September.
Featured Artists: Karen Istead, Bill Kafka, Joanna Hankus, Ketha Newman, Pat Doherty, Ken Fraser, Teena Surma, Barb Allport, Ken Balmer, Daryl Phillips, Miriam Hookings, Robert Pearson, Michael Hankus, Nancy McKinnon, Allan O'Marra.
Scrolling down to explore some of the artwork on display by the featured artists.
On display in the Annex will be a wonderful collection of artworks, watercolours, fused glass, quilts and more. Each piece represents what you will find in the various artist studios during the Bancroft Studio Tour in September.
Featured Artists: Karen Istead, Bill Kafka, Joanna Hankus, Ketha Newman, Pat Doherty, Ken Fraser, Teena Surma, Barb Allport, Ken Balmer, Daryl Phillips, Miriam Hookings, Robert Pearson, Michael Hankus, Nancy McKinnon, Allan O'Marra.
Scrolling down to explore some of the artwork on display by the featured artists.
Joanna Hankus
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Joanna’s passion for quilts started a long time ago. Over the years, her interests expanded, and she discovered a great passion in making mosaics. Today, both mediums bring her joy, as she designs unity from the chaos of unrelated pieces. She uses new and recycled materials in both mediums. Recently, she started having fun interlacing the main principles of one media into the other.
https://www.instagram.com/joartsylife/ |
Pixelated Rose Mosaic
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Quilt "Richness of Autumn"
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Michael Hankus
Fall Homes
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Michael's photography artwork aims to visually archive familiar settings of dwellings and landscapes in their most pleasant moments from unique vantage points. Come see the artistic documentation of the Bancroft Area.
Downtown Bancroft
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Nancy Mckinnon
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Nancy is a vibrant landscape painter whose medium of choice is acrylics and oils. I love the texture and the movement created by the paint. I thirst for the shapes and the faces and the colours. I cannot imagine life without venturing into the landscape or taking yet another workshop - especially at Haliburton School of the Arts.
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Birch Trees 2
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Birch Trees 1
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Robert Pearson
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Krys works in Pastel, Charcoal and Oil. Favours landscapes and figurative works accenting light and dark. His home and studio overlooks Lk Baptiste. Works span Bancroft, BC, New
Brunswick, Africa. |
Robert Pearson (AKA krys bradley) Blue Berry Island - Lake Baptiste, Pastel On paper 35” w X28” h $925
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Ken Balmer
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My art is most often inspired by a search for and appreciation of spirituality in all its forms. Orenda is an Iroquois name for a supernatural force believed to be present in all people and creatures. It is the spiritual driver for accomplishment; the essential element that allows us to thrive and survive. My artistic interpretations of animals, birds, fish or insects strive to capture that essence in each subject.
www.balmerart.com www.facebook.com/kenbalmer1 |
A Grizzly
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A Fox
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Lucky MalooLucky Maloo is the moniker of Miriam Hookings, local full-time resident since 2001. Inspired by the surrounding land, water & sky, I create distinctly unique clothing & accessories, with zero waste, from 100% recycled materials. Sustainable, one-of-a-kind, comfortable & happy-making, I aim to imbue every piece with the joy I feel in their creation!
http://luckymaloo.com/ 
Bird Cushion
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Crocheted Pants
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Barb Allport
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I am primarily an acrylic landscape painter. The rural world I live in is inspiration for many paintings. The energetic beauty of the rocks, trees, water and wetlands sings to me and my paintings are created in thanks to nature for its ever present love and beauty.
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More Winter
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Can Hardly Wait for Summer
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Daryl Phillips
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The natural world has always inspired me with its' beauty, complexity and its' life sustaining qualities. I love to find connections between nature and our lives as people. As I wander through any given landscape, appreciating and discovering every aspect of creation, I am consistently inspired by what I see and experience. My photographs are an expression of those experiences to share with others and a way to recall those memories for myself.
http://www.darylphillips.ca/ |
Colour Wet Plate
Symbiosis
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Ketha Newman
Along with my painting practice, I enjoy working on community-engaged art projects, creating public art and drawing. In 2016 Doubleday published The Canadian Backwoods Colouring Book featuring forty of my pictures of beautiful North Hastings. In 2019 I was featured in the CBC series Off the Grid that aired on the arts show The Exhibitionists. Every September I welcome visitors to my workspace during the Bancroft and Area Studio Tour.
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Turkey Tail
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Karen Istead
Karen Istead is a Bancroft glass artist working with fused glass. Using glass from powder to pieces and sheets of glass, the goal is to capture the light in nature. The reflective light is captured from trees, sky and waterways in our rural area. These glass works are created to hang in windows, sit on a stand under room light and some are useful pieces like plates and candle holders.
I have a bunkie that I show my work from and am a member of Bancroft area Autumn Studio Tour. My work can be viewed on my Facebook page, under Karen Istead Glass Artist.
To take a bunkie tour contact
613-332-0504.
I have a bunkie that I show my work from and am a member of Bancroft area Autumn Studio Tour. My work can be viewed on my Facebook page, under Karen Istead Glass Artist.
To take a bunkie tour contact
613-332-0504.
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Birch Forest
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Teena Surma
Teena is a self-taught artist from Bancroft, Ontario. She creates one-of-a-kind dolls and ornaments using air dry paper-clay. Her work includes dolls, animals, and other creatures inspired by classic fairy tales and her imagination.
http://www.thefancifuldoll.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thefancifuldoll?mibextid=LQQJ4d
http://www.thefancifuldoll.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thefancifuldoll?mibextid=LQQJ4d
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The Poppy
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The Badger
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Pat Doherty
Painting since 1990, throughout his career he has experimented with various media, finding much satisfaction combining unusual objects with traditional formats. As an urban native, Patrick continues to evolve creatively, but has strong roots in his childhood traditions.
Rock and Bone
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The Darwin
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Ken Fraser
A self-taught painter/sculptor, Ken loves creating playful images that capture the wonder of the world around us. Painting on old wood and creating sculptures from clay and found materials.
613-334-5577 • kfraser344@gmail.com • @k.fray.
613-334-5577 • kfraser344@gmail.com • @k.fray.
Bill Kafka
All of what William creates in stone is inspired by the layers and shape of the raw stone, and the resulting piece could
alternate between abstract and representational styles. My techniques are in the Shona tradition mostly carved
entirely by hand using only chasing hammers, chisels, rasps, sandpaper for finishing and finally achieving a highly
polished finish after applying a heated colourless wax. All the stone I use is from the Great Dyke, a 510 km series of
ridges running through Zimbabwe. For 17 years I have pursued stone carving through annual workshops mentored by
various Shona Artists-in-Residence at the ZimArt Rice Lake Gallery.
My artistic interests commenced upon graduating from the Ontario College of art (OCAD) in 1974 with specialties in
architectural model building, sculpture, furniture and Interior Design. To round out my education I then obtained my
degree at Ryerson University in Commercial Interior Design in 1978. This was followed by corporate Interior Design
consulting in the private sector for 15 years and management in Facilities Planning and Real Estate Leasing in the
Federal Government for 23 years.
alternate between abstract and representational styles. My techniques are in the Shona tradition mostly carved
entirely by hand using only chasing hammers, chisels, rasps, sandpaper for finishing and finally achieving a highly
polished finish after applying a heated colourless wax. All the stone I use is from the Great Dyke, a 510 km series of
ridges running through Zimbabwe. For 17 years I have pursued stone carving through annual workshops mentored by
various Shona Artists-in-Residence at the ZimArt Rice Lake Gallery.
My artistic interests commenced upon graduating from the Ontario College of art (OCAD) in 1974 with specialties in
architectural model building, sculpture, furniture and Interior Design. To round out my education I then obtained my
degree at Ryerson University in Commercial Interior Design in 1978. This was followed by corporate Interior Design
consulting in the private sector for 15 years and management in Facilities Planning and Real Estate Leasing in the
Federal Government for 23 years.
Grand Lady
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Conflicting Modes
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Allan O’Marra
Allan O’Marra is a graduate of OCAD University in Toronto, an award-winning fine artist, and art teacher, an art exhibition jurist and curator, a transpersonal psychotherapist and an art columnist and self-published writer. He paints a wide variety of subjects from figures/portraits to landscape and still life in a high realist style. He has had 50 solo fine art exhibitions and participated in more than 100 group shows in a 52-year career, and has works of art in numerous private and corporate collections.
Homage to Maxfield Parrish
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Antique Bottles
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