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Exhibit Schedule

June 20th - July 4th

Open Daily 9am-6pm

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July 5th - August 2nd

Weekends 9am-6pm & By Appointment

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
June 17 2026

"Mother Nature Along the Don"

Susan Brown

Mixed media
24x18in.
$180

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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