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Exhibit Schedule

Saturdays and Sundays until August 2nd

12-5pm​

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197 Third St, Cobourg, ON

Welcome to our 2nd annual Canada Day Weekend Fine Art Exhibit!

View our full exhibit gallery below. We are excited to have the opportunity to feature all of the amazing artists below in our exhibit, beginning June 20th.  Deb's Circle founder, Esther Inglis, was once the owner of Gallery on the Lake located in Buckhorn and Ajax. This collaboration allows us to host exhibits featuring world-class fine art as a means of fundraising. Our fundraising initiatives ensure that we can continue to provide our creativity-based mental wellness programs free-of-charge to women in our community. 

Featured Painting of the Day

"Birches"
Larry McGill

Mixed media on canvas
$200

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Meet Our Featured Artists

Terry Ananny

Jeffery Boron

Lauren Boissonneault

Terry Ananny was born in 1956 in Toronto, Ontario. She has always had a deep interest in art, pursuing it throughout her young adult life. Discovering classic Canadian artists through her education, she felt inspired to dvelop her own vibrant style. Terry’s artwork is bright, bold, and undeniably cheerful. Her paintings celebrate Canadian life and traditions, with playfulness and feelings of nostalgia emerging from the canvas. Terry is a renowned artist, having been featured in numerous exhibits, galleries, and collections across Canada as well as internationally over the duration of her career. Her artwork is uniquely Canadian, and has been a staple of Canadian fine art culture throughout her career.

Lauren Boissonneault was born and raised in Peterborough, Ontario. From a young age, her two passions – nature and art – often overlapped. During family camping trips to Algonquin Park, she would admire the classic artwork of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Her love and appreciation for the outdoors is clear within her artwork, preferring to use wood panel and live edge wood as her canvas. The uniqueness of each piece of wood adds to the natural theme of her work, capturing the beauty and peacefulness of Canadian landscapes. Her paintings are snapshots of memories and moments that she wishes to share with those who view her work.

Art has always been part of Jeffrey’s life. Born in Concord, Ontario, he began sketching and painting watercolours of his rural neighbourhood at an early age. Jeffrey’s creativity developed into an early career in graphic arts. While living and working in Ontario’s north, Jeffrey’s love of birds and nature led him to wood carving. His waterfowl and shorebird carvings became his main artistic focus at that time. Many of Jeffrey’s carvings are in collections throughout Canada and the USA. After moving to Victoria Jeffrey’s love of painting and sketching was rekindled by the beauty of the coastal environment. Painting in oil and acrylic has re-energized his love of landscape and marine painting. Jeffrey’s bold and colourful art has gained much popularity in Victoria and beyond. “Capturing the play of light and colour on our natural world is a joyful experience for me. It is my hope that my paintings will convey that joy to the viewer.” “Although primarily a self taught artist, I give many thanks to the artists whose workshops and classes I have attended over the years. Most of all I give thanks to my partner in life, love & art, Linny.”

Linda Coffee

Norman R. Brown

Susan Brown

Norman Brown was born in Toronto, Canada and developed a natural inclination towards painting from early in his childhood.. Throughout his life, he has travelled around much of Canada in the pursuit of finding new inspirations from coast to coast. His paintings are uniquely Canadian; showcasing landscapes that always feel familiar, no matter how far from home you really are. Norman’s artwork reminds us that there is always something to discover and be appreciated within the mundane. While his paintings feature many of Canada’s great sights, rural Ontario provides Norman’s with the inspiration to create exceptional artwork that many prominent collectors have coveted and acquired. Norman’s unique ability in capturing light, movement, and mood are prominently showcased in all of his artwork. ,a talent he has been harnessing since his early childhood. His ability to paint beautiful landscapes with such care and depth of feeling, tells a story about how much he cherishes the environment we should be grateful to call our home. His paintings capture still moments, but are alive in the sense that you could step into the frame and imagine the scene beyond its borders. Norman has been celebrated not only across his home country, but internationally as his paintings capture and highlight a classic kind of Canadian beauty that is recognizable across the globe. Now, Norman has settled in Northumberland County, continuing his artistry with paintings of notable places in our community.

Susan L. Brown is an artist, educator, curator. She is the founder of the Artists’ Garden Cooperative, a summer arts and education conferencing program, and Artify, a curatorial service. A native of Toronto, Susan studied Fine Art at the University of Toronto. She is an award-winning visual arts educator and artist. Susan has been a member and exhibited with a number of arts groups including the Woodlawn Pottery Studio, the Don Valley Art Club (DVAC), the Bayview Art Tour, and the North Toronto Group of Artists (NTGA ). She has participated in solo and group shows in Toronto and Southern Ontario. Her work is in private and corporate collections in Canada, the US and Israel.

Linda Coffee was born and raised in Northumberland County, with many years of calling Cobourg ‘home.’ She has expertise in a variety of mediums and styles, including oils, acrylic, mixed media, inks, and copper. Her favourite subjects are landscapes and abstractions, drawing inspiration from her husbands photography and memories of her childhood farm. Her artwork emphasizes her love for colour and texture. What was once her hobby has turned into a professional career, with Linda teaching workshops and providing consignment pieces to her clientele.

Michael Glover

Ben Jensen

Valerie Kent

Michael Glover is a Canadian artist, residing in Northumberland County for much of his life. Though, Michael has spent much of his life travelling around Canada. From coast to coast, Michael find beauty and inspiration in classic Canadian landscapes, but also scenes with a uniquely human touch that we would otherwise overlook in the moment. Scrapyards, heavy machinery, and abandoned infrastructure become musings for Michael, capturing human life in a different way compared to other artists. Michael prefers to travel this beautiful country by land, and through his incredible skill and precision, it is evident that this is the work of somebody who has become intimate with the differing landscapes of Canada; a relationships only countless hours of travel on open highways, and less so, waterways, could produce. His love and appreciation for not only nature, but human life is clear when viewing his paintings. Michales style can be described as realism with just a dash of abstraction, showing us Canadian landscape in a space between reality and emotion. Viewing his artwork brings you to the location Michael once found himself in, facilitating a sense of familiarity and nostalgia in the vastness of our country.

Ben was born in the Danish port town of Skive. Ben is a self–taught, full-time professional artist, and he has been painting for 30 years. His medium is oil, and his work covers a wide spectrum of subjects, including street scenes, historic buildings and vistas of the northern wilderness. He has always had a special affinity for the sea and ships. His affinity is reflected in his ever popular marine scenes. His works are found in the City of Toronto Archives, in municipal collections, as well as in private and corporate collections worldwide. He has exhibited in many one man shows as well as group shows.

Valerie Kent is a renowned artist based out of Peterborough, Ontario. She has always loved to paint, but her passion lies in teaching others about the beauty of creating art. This is reflected in her artwork, often capturing human connection and an admiration for community through marketplace scenes and cityscapes. Valerie teaches at a variety of institutions across Ontario, such as Trent University, and has also taught workshops in France and Italy. She has been exhibited internationally, her travels often leading to inspiration to her artwork. Valerie has been exhibited in China, France, Italy, Holland, Korea, Japan, and USA.

Wee Lee

Eddie LePage

Lucy Manley

Wee Lee is an award winning nature artist and his technique combines Western realism with Oriental brushwork. He came to Canada in 1978 and has resided in Regina since then. Lee is fascinated by all living creatures in the eco-system and has traveled North America extensively in pursuit of subjects for his paintings. As a result, his close-up, intimate paintings of nature capture flora, trees, birds and fauna of our parks, wilderness refuges and his own backyard. In addition to his active exhibition record, Wee Lee has painted dioramas for Royal Saskatchewan Museum, White Horse Nature Interpretive Center, Yukon and murals for Moose Jaw and Duck Lake, SK. He also won numerous awards including Duck Unlimited National Artist, Second run-up Canada Wildlife Habitat Program, Saskatchewan Wildlife Art Program Artist of the Year, Pheasant Forever Canada Print of the year. Lee was featured as master painter of the world Canada section, in International Artist magazine June/July 2002 issue. In February 2004, Wee Lee was interviewed on the CBC television show, “On the Road Again.” Wee Lee’s work is part of numerous public and private collections including Canadian Museum of Civilization, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Revenue Canada, IBM Canada, City of Regina, Dofasco Canadian Collection, Ducks Unlimited Canada, the University of South Dakota and SGI Canada to name a few.

From looking at Eddie LePage’s paintings, it is clear that he has a deep love for nature. Born in Dundas, and now residing out of Peterborough, his paintings resonate deeply with Ontarians, displaying landscapes and scenery we often overlook. Using meticulous detail and refined skills, Eddie paints these familiar scenes with such love and appreciation that these they become nostalgic and remarkable. Though, his incredible paintings and skills have touched the hearts of many internationally, participating in studio tours and collections across Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Australia, South Africa, and the United States.

Lucy Manley is a German-born painter, but has lived Ontario for the majority of her life. She has travelled across the world in search of her favourite subject, traditional landscapes and examples of rural life. Though, the heart of her artwork lies in Ontario, and the wilderness of the North. Her extensive travels have turned her Jeep into her mobile studio. She has worked alongside countless Canadian fine artists, honing her skill and unique style. She has been a full-time painter since 1990, being in a variety of exhibitions and receiving many awards with her distinct landscape paintings. Lucy has shared her knowledge and expertise on painting since 1995, when she began teaching art classes for Continuing Education for Loyalist College in Warkworth. Lucy says ‘I paint where I am,’ finding striking emotions in scenes we may otherwise call mundane. Her on-location painting style allows her to capture mood and light in ways unlike other artists. Bold colours and loose, rapid brushstrokes convey the feeling of time passing and daylight changing within her paintings. Looking closely, each brushstroke represents a different moment in time where the sun shone a little differently on her subject. Her paintings are fresh, lively, and spontaneous, but still offering levels of depth and meaning.

Larry McGill

Joan McGivney

Barbara McGuey

Before becoming a full-time artist, Lawrence earned a degree for business management and an architectural degree at Ryerson University. In the past 40 years, while pursuing his studies to enhance his painting techniques, Lawrence taught interior design at Seneca College. He has exhibited in group and solo shows and his artwork hangs in private and corporate collections, internationally. Lawrence is a member of the Don Valley Art Club, the Studios of Keywest, the Provence Watercolour Arts Council, the Caribbean Arts Cooperative and the Society of Canadian Artists (Associate Member).

I am both an artist and Art Educator. After a high school teaching career of 32 years both as a visual arts teacher and department head, mainly at Michael Power St. Joseph High School in Toronto, I retired in 2004.Since then I have been painting extensively, mainly in oils. My work is about the beauty I see around me. Whether I am painting a landscape or the human form, I am always looking for that elusive quality of light which renders dynamic forms. I love colour and I love how colour is changed by light and shadow. I get excited when I look at a magnificent cloud formation, at the beautiful shadows made by trees on snow, at the individual beauty of each person’s face and form. Painting for me is truly an act of joy, and realism is the style I choose to express this joy… I have been involved in many group shows and studio tours over the past years, including The Scarborough Arts Guild outdoor art show, The Queen West Art Crawl, The Markham Outdoor Art Show, The Bayview Art Tour, The North York Visual Arts Tour and the North Toronto Group of Artists Studio Tour and Sale, Art at the Fairlawn Neighbourhood Centre , and Art at the Shops of DonMills. In 2007 I had a solo show at the Uof T Faculty club and in 2009 through Artify, had a solo show at Dukem Rstaurant.

Barbara McGuey was born in Toronto, and currently lives in Hastings. Long before she was a professional artist, Barbara worked as an architectural illustrator. After her 29 year career, she continued her love of art by teaching classes until 2014. Now, she is a distinguished realist painter using traditional oil painting techniques. Her artwork is bold and striking, creating an air of familiarity as she emphasizes scenes that are common throughout rural Ontario. Her love for photography makes itself known even within her paintings, as she seeks to convey the exact scene through her painting abilities. She finds inspiration for her paintings during early hours of the morning, or right as the sun begins to set, as the sunshine twinkles through the unique landscapes she finds herself infatuated with. Though, she never lacks inspiration, as many of her paintings are still-life scenes or complex animal portraits. With a focus on capturing this light and colour, her paintings become a specific moment captured in time; a still photo with a clear emotion. As you look closely into her paintings, you will find that there is much to discover.

Bev Redden

Andrew Sookrah

Beverly Sneath

Bev is a self-taught woodturner. Upon retiring from 45 years in the electronics field, he was finally able to use the woodworking tools he has been collecting for years and indulge in his love of working with wood. Bev uses Canadian woods but also likes to use exotic woods. He lets the wood inspire him as to which direction each piece will take. He enjoys making segmented bowls, some with hundreds of pieces. Most of his work is finished with tung oil, which brings out the beauty of the wood.

Sookrah is a raw colourist whose free brushwork is confident and powerful. His strengths can be seen in his strong sense of design, exquisite use of effective composition, confident presentation of bold colours… and in his figurative and portraiture work, his capturing the essence of the human spirit. His is a masterful expression of the unity of nature. Andrew Cheddie Sookrah was born in Guyana in 1956. In Georgetown he attended Queen’s College where he was recognized for his artistic expression from an early age having won the school’s art prize in 1971. At age 16, Sookrah started working as a designer and illustrator at Ace Advertisers (Georgetown, Guyana), and quickly moved into the role of the company art director. In 1974 Sookrah immigrated to Canada and attended multidisciplinary continuing education programs at the Ontario College of Art (OCA), George Brown College and Ryerson University. His beginnings in design and illustration opened a life of parallel passions. While continuing to paint and carve out his artistic existence, Sookrah involved himself in advertising and opened Engine Room Creative, a successful design development studio and advertising & marketing agency in Toronto. As the Creative Director of Engine Room, he has worked on provincial and national campaigns, as well as international campaigns in the US and UK. Sookrah’s technical knowledge and might of communication lead him into fine art instruction. Today he conducts workshops and teaches painting techniques in oil, acrylic and watercolour at various institutions including including McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Richmond Hill Art School and The Lodge on Amherst Island. An active member of the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto for twenty-four years, Sookrah served many terms on the Club’s Art Committee and was the convenor of its 3rd Floor Sunday Figurative Painting Sessions for nine years. Over the years his work was included in various juried group exhibitions at the Club. Sookrah regularly donates work to charitable auctions and foundations including REACH, Gilda’s Club, Creative Art GEMS Auction, KidSport Canada, and the Roseneath Foundation. He was also a sponsor of the Student Drawing Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE) at City Hall for several years. Sookrah’s work is in Corporate and Private Collections in Canada and the US.

Beverly (Bev) Sneath was born in 1953 and grew up in rural Ridgeville, continuing to reside in the Niagra region. This deep connection to her hometown and roots is evident within her paintings, with her favourite artistic themes being family, nature, and serenity. She works in many different mediums including acrylic, oil, silk painting, and drawing, though her favourite is watercolur. Her favourite subjects include portraits, florals, landscapes, animals, childrens, dancers, and ethereal fairies, saying “I paint because I have a need for the way art adds balance to my life…I want to share with the viewer that which captivates me. Bev’s paintings are graceful, but alive and vibrant with emotion. Her ability to capture light and movement is striking, truly capturing a moment in time. Bev shares her love of art not only with her paintings, but in offering a variety of art classes and workshops within her community. She teaches classes in watercolour, acrylics, and drawing for a variety of ages, including workshops in elementary schools and private events.

Jake Vandenbrink

Lynda Todd

Michael Zarowsky

Lynda Todd is a Canadian multi-award winning artist based in Peterborough, Ontario. Specializing in tactile mixed-media art, “Please Touch” is not a slogan but rather a wholehearted invitation. Being both legally blind and colour blind, Lynda’s work explores accessibility, inclusion, and sensory engagement by challenging traditional gallery conventions. Using layered materials, raised surfaces, texture, and Braille, she creates artwork that can be experienced by a broader range of audiences, including those who are blind, have low vision, or benefit from multi-sensory engagement. Lynda’s artwork is a reminder that art is for everyone, and that art can be felt, seen, and experienced in more ways than traditional means. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in galleries, community initiatives, accessibility-focused programming, publications, and the media across Canada. Most recently, she was featured in Costco Connection magazine, distributed nationally to Costco members, and in Grapevine Arts & Culture magazine. Through both her art and advocacy, Lynda champions the belief that accessibility and artistic excellence are not separate goals, but complementary ones, which strives to create more inclusive cultural experiences for all. Lynda says “My work explores how touch can create connection, spark memory, and communicate in ways that words or images alone sometimes cannot. The tactile element is not an addition to the artwork. It is an essential part of both the meaning and the experience.”

Jake Vandenbrink is an Ontario-born, self-taught artist. His love for art and painting began early in his childhood, with his main muse becoming Canadian nature and wildlife as he found himself engrossed in it much of the time. Through many years, Vandenbrink developed his personal style, which is highly distinguishable. With each painting, he wishes the viewer to become “emotionally involved in the scene,” leading him to paint with a careful and deliberate use of colour, lighting, and mood. The strict attention to detail and emotion mirrors his avid conservation efforts, reminding viewers that these landscapes and environments are the only ones we have. His bond with nature is clear, as his paintings are calm and timeless. His distinct style has captured the hearts of many, not only those of Canadians who are closely familiar with his preferred scenes, but internationally as well. His depictions of Canada, perhaps the sights we take for granted, have made their way across international waters, landing in places such as Japan, Dubai, and across Europe.

Michael Zarowsky has always been an artist. With a keen and distinct way of viewing the world creating art was his way of expressing his love for the beauty he saw all around him. He always came back to painting. He experimented with the medium of painting, pushing back against traditional rules and techniques. By creating his own techniques through mixing watercolour and acrylic paints, he continued to progress as an artist as he developed his distinct and beloved style. His paintings are a breath of fresh air, a feeling that is a testament to his process of open-mindedness, willingness, and calmness when he begins a painting. The ability to be so ‘in the moment’ makes each painting a true moment captured in time.

Qing Zhang

DD Gadjanski

Look closely and you can see each individual stitch coming together to create the scene before you. Silk embroidery skills are passed down from generation to generation, with it's ancient heritage coming from royal embroiderers in Suzhou China thousands of years ago who embroidered all robes belonging to the Chinese Emperor. Qing Zhang keeps this ancient tradition alive with truly one-of-a-kind artwork such as "Girl with Basket," and other originals available during our Canada Day Weekend Fine Art Exhibit, beginning on June 20th.

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Didi grew up and went to school in her city. She studied Architecture as well as engineering – Airport Organization at the Univerisity of Belgrade. She imigrated to Toronto in summer of 1968. As a mature student she graduated with honours at OCAD University in Toronto, specializing in fine art painting and drawing. She travels extensivelly around the world visiting art galleries and museums and atending seminars and master workshops conducted by renowned North American artists. Didi is a past president of the Toronto Watercolour Society and was on it’s Board for seven years. She was also member of the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. Last 25 years Didi has taught courses and demonstrations on experimentation in art and composition and design in Canada, France, Spain, Cuba, Serbia and Argentina. She also juried numerous art shows in GTA. Over the years she participated in over 100 group and solo shows in Canada, Sweden and Serbia. Her art is in corporate and private collections world wide.

The Deb's Circle Collection

A special collection of artwork provided by prominent artists and donors. These spectacular pieces, offered for sale, are only available at Deb's Circle

Our Giclee Collection

What is a giclee?

A giclee is a museum-quality art reproduction made using a high-resolution digital printer. To qualify as a giclee, prints must use archival pigment-based inks and acid-free paper or canvas to ensure vivid colours and resistance to fading. 

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