Mary Anne Young & AJ Longstreet - Featured Artists Mar 9 - May 3, 2025

Our featured artists for our Rocks, Streams, and Dreams show from Mar 9 - May 3, 2025 are Mary Anne Young and AJ Longstreet.

Mary Anne and AJ are an artistic duo inspired by the world around them—both close to home and on their travels. Mary Anne specializes in ecological art, using fineliner pens and watercolor to create intricate depictions of plants, animals, and natural phenomena. Her detailed work complements AJ’s landscape photography, which captures nature on a grand scale.

Mary Anne is a landscape architect, ecologist, and self-proclaimed plant nerd. Raised in an artistic family, she has combined her artistic skills with an understanding of nature’s intricate details honed through years of ecological fieldwork.

AJ, a software engineer with a keen eye for detail, explores landscapes, structures, and people through photography, emphasizing color and texture.

Their work comes together in this collection, highlighting the beauty and complexity of the natural world through two distinct yet harmonious perspectives.

View Mary Anne’s work at https://www.instagram.com/may_outdoors/.

View AJ’s work at https://www.instagram.com/aj_out_of_doors/.

Patricia Flood - Emerging Artist Mar 9 - May 3, 2025

Featured during our Rocks, Streams, and Dreams show from Mar 9 - May 3, 2025, Patricia Flood is an emerging artist known for her

Learn more and view Patricia’s work at https://www.instagram.com/pfflood/.

Joan Callister - Featured Artist Jan 6 - Mar 8, 2025

Featured during our Brilliant Encounters show from Jan 6 - Mar 8, 2025, Joan Callister is a Canadian painter and photographer whose life is centered around the longest shoreline of the Great Lakes. Born in Sarnia, summers in Bayfield, and now in Tobermory, Lake Huron has provided her with a constant source of raw beauty and wonder, from which she shares her exposure, being at one with nature.

Intuitively, Joan actively applies paint to substrate, abstracting her environment and capturing the immediacy of 3D emotions onto a flat surface. This release exposes a vulnerable, soulful, and honest expression of her source.

Joan has studied extensively with mentors and artists, locally, internationally, and virtually. She continues to seek new techniques in her quest for learning, to enhance her expertise and expand her style.

Joan is a current member of the Guelph Studio Tour and the Bruce Peninsula Society of Artists.

Learn more and view Joan’s work at https://www.joancallister.com.

Deb Stocker - Emerging Artist Jan 6 - Mar 8, 2025

Featured during our Brilliant Encounters show from Jan 6 - Mar 8, 2025, Deb Stocker’s journey through the arts was sparked at a very young age and led her to working in the fashion and modeling industry.

As a certified teacher for 35 years, she shared her passion with youth and teaching to develop career work in beauty culture, upholstery, makeup artistry, and now fine art.

Her paintings reveal her spiritual thoughts and mental wellbeing through colour, texture, movement, and symbols.

At present, she is studying under international artist Kreso Cavlovic, who is teaching her to experiment and take risks to develop her own style.

Learn more and view Deb’s work at https://www.instagram.com/debstocker6/.

Contact her at debstocker111@gmail.com or 519-362-8399 to purchase her work.

Nan Hogg - Featured Artist Sep 4 - Nov 3, 2024

Featured during our The Heart of the Community show from Sep 4 - Nov 3, 2024, Nan Hogg has been a respected artist and champion of the Guelph art scene for decades. Her watercolours and oil paintings of Guelph landscapes grace the walls of countless Guelph homes. Living in Guelph since the 1980s, in 1996 she moved to the area commonly known as “The Ward.” This neighbourhood, spanning over a century, has a rich history of immigration, early Guelph businesses and colourful stories.

Nan has created paintings of many iconic buildings, which are landmarks to those who have lived there, honouring their important place in our urban landscape. Whether depicting commercial, industrial or residential scenes, her work evokes an acute sense of light and shadow, often with a hint of mystery that is reminiscent of Alex Coleville.
 
She holds a BFA from the University of Guelph.

Learn more and view Nan’s work at https://www.art-in-guelph.com/Pages/nhogg.html.

Diana Scott - Featured Artist Jul 8 - Sep 2, 2024

Featured during our Art and Poetry show from Jul 8 - Sep 2, 2024, Diana Scott shares the following statement about her work:

“I learned my art through a lifetime of practice, combining many crafts, including, but not limited to; hand and machine embroidery, knitting, macrame, crocheting, beading, and weaving. Combining these skills with my own creativity has allowed me to speak to my human experience, frustrations, and passions, as well as allowing me to connect with and echo nature. My art is what has sustained me and lifted me through the many challenges, changes, traumas and joys of my life.

It’s very important for me to make art that has a function and/or home. I create works only if there is a wall on which to hang it, a babe to sleep under it, an arm to carry it, or a soul to appreciate it. And sometimes just to heal my own soul.”

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Diana was born in Toronto and grew up in Dorval, Quebec. At the age of 11 she was shuffled around between various places including Woodstock and London On. Her childhood was informed by the chaotic environment created by her borderline mother. In the wake of that chaos, she found an escape in fiber/fabric construction, crafting and theater. Her formative years were filled with self-initiated creation, including wall hanging and embroidery projects, marionette construction, doll making, clothes and curtain construction, and in her final year of highschool, the production of the school musical Annie Get Your Gun.

Diana was married in her early twenties. By the time she was forty, she was raising three children alone. Birthing, caring for, and raising her children has been the most powerfully important thing she has accomplished, and was an early life goal. Her children are doing important work in their lives and Diana takes great pride in their accomplishments. Emma, the oldest, is an international teacher and mother to two boys; Cassie is a musician, songwriter, teacher and climate activist and Luke is a teacher, and is completing his masters towards becoming a psychologist. There were many joys and many struggles seeing her children into adulthood.

Diana retired from teaching with the Upper Grand District School Board in 2013 and since then has spent a great deal of time in her studio/sewing room creating things, including: clothing, quilts, computer bags, knitting bags, hangings and many fabric boxes for loved ones and the occasional client. Her fabric boxes have not only been an excellent teaching tool, but also served as special gifts for many loved ones and now live in homes all over the world.

Diana presently resides between her home in Collingwood, where her studio lives and her home in Burlington, where her husband practices as a physiotherapist and homeopath. In her studio, she is currently working on a fiber/fabric series called Studies On Water, using found objects from nature. She is an active participant in The Gaslight Theatre Group and has recently begun to write her first play. She is also working towards publishing her first book of collected poetry and art entitled Journeys of a Stitching Heart.

Learn more and view Diana’s work at https://dianascottcreations.ca.

Kate Rogers - Featured Artist May 6 - Jul 7, 2024

Featured during our The Space Between show from May 6 - Jul 7, 2024, Kate Rogers is a self-taught acrylic and mixed media abstract artist based in Guelph, Ontario creating original paintings for those who crave an unordinary life and home.

She embodies bold expression and unapologetic energy to celebrate your curious spirit and the boundless possibilities that unfold when you grant yourself permission to say yes to what lights your soul on fire. Limitations and convention be damned.

Integrating Kate’s work into your space is an honouring of your own self-expression. It invites you to prioritize what will help you flourish and anchors you in those decisions. By accepting the invitation, you consciously choose to become part of a ripple effect: contributing to a wave of unapologetic, playful, vivacious living that in turn raises the frequency of our planet.

Learn more and view Kate’s work at www.katerogerscreations.com.

Adam Honsinger - Featured Artist Apr 4 - May 5, 2024

Adam Honsinger, a multifaceted Guelph artist known for his fiction writing, songwriting, and past work as a tattoo artist, will be April’s Featured Artist. He will be presenting the centerpiece of his 10-panel series, “The Matriarch,” a mixed media study measuring 48" x 48".

Honsinger draws inspiration from nature, particularly local trails and forests, and has been featuring birds and insects in his art for years. His works include ornamental mandalas that represent the spirit of each being, creating a sense of wonder and beauty.

Honsinger's work is on display at the Artworks Gallery Guelph's "Rocks, Streams and Dreams" show until May 5, 2024.

Learn more and view Adam’s work at https://www.instagram.com/adamhonsinger/.

Marnie Dallan - Featured Artist Feb 2 - Apr 3, 2024

Featured during our In Living Colour show from Feb 2 - Apr 3, 2024, Marnie Dallan is an artist, self-published children’s author and illustrator, with a background in graphic design. She has been painting and showcasing her art in Ontario since 2006. Marnie has self-published two children’s books of poetry, Everyday Me in 2018 and Everyday We: Friendships in 2022, and a colouring book, Colour with Me in 2023.

She also released an album in 2022, Sunshine and Pineapples which is a collection of songs she wrote and recorded. Marnie’s paintings have been described as warm, cheerful, colourful and whimsical. She paints with both oil and acrylic mediums depending on the project or series.  

Marnie’s work derives from her love of life, vibrant colour, nature,  and is inspired by friendship, music and laughter.

Learn more and view Marnie’s work at www.marniedallan.com.