Carol Loeb
Carol Loeb is a formally trained painter and art educator. Inspired by landscapes, Carol works mainly with acrylics on canvas in a fluid, expressive style. The pageantry of colors, shapes and patches of light captivate her imagination. Her work abstracts nature but maintains recognizable subjects: wind blown leaves, deep foreboding shadows of northern pine forests or purple-stained wood of pine beetle infestations. The colors, details, and perspective warp, blending into an expressive interpretation of the natural world. Carol currently teaches Visual Art at Lower Canada College in Montréal, Québec. Originally inspired by her artist and designer uncle, William Pugh, she has a very strong interest in the cultural and historical influences on art. Upon completing her art studies, she taught in Ontario for seven years and then went overseas for eleven years, teaching in five different countries around the world. She loved the opportunity to not only learn new approaches to art making and teaching, but to experience a rich diversity of art, architecture and cultural traditions in her travels. Carol’s artworks are included in many private collections in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, and the Philippines. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, United States and the Philippines. She is represented by galleries in Toronto and New York. To see more of her work go to her website: carolloeb.weebly.com |
Alison Grapes
Alison Grapes is an Arts Education teacher at Willowgrove School in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, having previously lived and taught Visual Arts in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Memories of growing up in a rural setting with the freedom to run through fields, climb fences, and building forts pull her like a magnet, both in the subject matter and colour palette. Alison enjoys exploring the power of colour in all its subtleties and boldness; the rich tones of various blue shadows, or the magenta weed at the side of a road hidden in a bed of green. More and more her paintings examine the normally unseen colours, negative space, and line while she tries to create a sense of space, texture and light. Alison works predominately with acrylics, but has lately been adding tempera and india ink into her paintings, enjoying the sense of history that comes with the additional mediums. Her work is process driven with her images dictating the medium, never quite knowing how her work will turn out hidden under four or five layers of tempera paint waiting to be lifted. Alison enjoys the problems that come with trying to find the end point, many happy accidents along the way adding to what she may never have visualized. Alison's works can be found in private collections in Australia, United States, Britain, and Canada. Her work is represented in Cape Breton. To see more of Alison's works, please go to her website at: www.alisongrapes.weebly.com Finalist: 2017 The Artist's Magazine, Landscape Category. |