Bev F. Friesen – painter

LUTHER POKRANT 

Manitoba artist, Luther Pokrant, was born in Rosenfeld, and studied art at the University of Manitoba. He received his M.A. at New MexicoState.  His paintings are inspired by the natural beauty of Manitoba’s prairies, forests, and lakes. These are reflected in colourful landscapes and water lily compositions. His work is represented in many corporate and private collections. Elaborate detailed and painted 3-dimensional boxes are extensions of these ideas. He is a member of the Manitoba Society of Artists and the RoyalCanadianAcademy of Arts. His work is represented by Mayberry Fine Art of Winnipeg and Assiniboia Gallery of Regina. 

Check out Luther's website at....

 www.lutherpokrant.ca

PETER SAWATZKY

Mr. Peter Sawatzky has made an indelible mark through his artistic creations as a painter, bird carver and master-class bronze sculptor. His art works are admired in collections around the world; an admiration that extends in Manitoba to his giving spirit and volunteerism. In the mid 1980's, after exhibitions and awards won him international recognition, he dedicated himself full-time to sculpturing in bronze, establishing his own foundry in Glenboro. He has also served in many capacities on rural organizations including in his home community. The recipient of numerous commissions throughout North America, you may find his work at many Manitoba locations.




KEN LOEWEN

Ken Loewen is a member of the TAE, a local art group. He received his post-secondary education at Canadian Mennonite Bible College in Winnipeg and a BA, with a major in fine arts, at Bethel College in Kansas. He is a metal sculptor who transforms scrap metal into abstract works of art. Ken believes that in everything there is beauty and creative potential. The purpose of his work is to be thought provoking, disturbing, political, social, and humorous. He likes to stimulate people, creating awareness.




GREGORY JOHNSON

Artist Gregory Johnson was born on January 30th, 1955, in Chicago Illinois. His early training includes the Art Institute of Chicago and tutoring by several world-class artists. An art scholarship sent him to Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1973. Later, after winning the Elizabeth Stein Award of Art Excellence Scholarship, he traveled to Illinois State University, where he studied sculpture, painting, and art history for the following six years. His work has sold well in the gallery environment, and resulted in numerous awards, commissions, reviews and one-man exhibitions. Currently, the artist resides in Forsyth County, Georgia with his wife Jane and family where he professionally pursues his career of making art.




JOANNE HARDER

Born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Jo-Anne Harder has been involved in visual art for many years. Largely self taught she has worked exclusively in metal for the past 15 years. Using recycled steel as her primary material she is interested in emphasizing the beauty and importance of the metal itself by giving new life and meaning to materials deemed worthless. In her welded abstract forms, which are often loosely figurative, she aims at expressing an outer and inner significance. Jo-Anne Harder's work can be seen in public and corporate settings, private homes and gardens in Canada and the United States. She lives on a farm in central Ontario near the Elora/Fergus area where she has a full time studio and enjoys a flourishing arts community. She is represented by Harbinger Gallery.




SUSAN GEISSLER

Susan Geissler began her art career in 1984, after schooling in Fine Arts, and working as an anatomical illustrator, graphic designer and art history researcher. Between 1984-1989, Susan's work was seen and enjoyed by millions of people at top outdoor art events around the United States. Currently, she confines the showing of her work primarily to galleries, plus occasional commercial events and print advertising. Susan considers her studio a small outpost of quality, integrity and love of the sculptural science. From this workplace in a small Western New York Village, after intense research and anatomical study, several lovingly rendered pieces per year emerge — some exploding with dazzling motion…some resting quietly, but exuding the soft, gentle, whimsical emotion that is a hallmark of her work.




BROOK DRABOT

Brook Drabot is a Winnipeg artist using a combination of cast, laminated, blown and solid worked glass to create. She has had the good fortune of learning through apprenticeship and self-teaching as well as time at Sheridan, Reddeer and Pratt glass schools. Brook is currently participating in a year long mentorship through Manitoba Artists for Women's Art. The local environment, history, maps and natural sciences inspire her work.




DEB ZELLER

Deb Zeller began her art career at age thirteen, when she received a set of oil paints for her birthday. In the ensuing years she has taken her artistic passion into glass fusion and creating sculpture in bronze and stone. Deb is the founder and leader of Bronze Buddies, a weekly working bronze consortium, where she hosts weekly gathering of up to twelve fellow sculptors from the local Minnesota area in her studio. Ideas and inspiration abound as the artists feed off the energy that permeates the studio at these gatherings. A Minnesota USA native, she was featured in a four person exhibition in New York City, participated in the Loveland, Colorado sculpture exhibition, had a solo exhibition at the Crow River Arts Gallery in Hutchinson, Minnesota and has had publicly installed sculptures in Sioux City, Iowa, Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Bemidji, Minnesota. Her current endeavor is a full size three figure sculpture which will be installed in the circle drive of the high school in Victoria, Minnesota, where she currently resides.




JOHN ADDUCI

John Adduci was born in Chicago in 1948, received a Bachelor of Arts from Southern Illinois University in 1971, and a Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 1975. For thirty years, he has been working from his Chicago studio, (a former C.T.A. substation in the Old Town neighborhood) as an internationally recognized artist utilizing the fluidity of metal to express both movement and stability to outdoor sculpture. Since 1984, Adduci Sculpture has a history of public projects; including metal fabrication in aluminum, bronze and steel, sculpture design and feasibility consultation.




LEO MOL

Leo Mol was born on January 15th, 1915 in the small Ukrainian village of Polonne, a community of potters. By the time Leo was 11, he was working almost full time modeling clay and working the potter's wheel for his father who made his living producing family wares to be sold at the local market. In Winnipeg, as early as 1952, Mol was modeling brilliant small figure studies in terra cotta. Many of these were later cast in bronze. During his first decade in Canada, Leo did not neglect portraiture and over the years, modeled more than one hundred portrait subjects. Leo Mol's career as a sculptor has been one of extraordinary success. A winner of countless awards and honours, it is the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden in Winnipeg that best illustrates his outstanding contribution to the sculpture tradition of Canada.