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Andrew S. Hiebert

​​Andrew S. Hiebert is a professional Winnipeg artist, renowned for his participation in numerous solo shows, group exhibitions, artist talks, and live events. He embodies an insatiable curiosity and a vivid imagination. His enthusiasm for art and its transformative power is unwavering.

By profession, Hiebert is a senior science teacher, and by intuition, a passionate artist. His world seamlessly toggles between rigour and wonder. His art, rich in allegory and bold beauty, reflects the depth of his character and the breadth of his vision.

He is an active member of several art organizations including the Federation of Canadian Artists.
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Angela Lillico

Angela believes art is necessary in this day and age to bring comfort, refuge, and hope in a time of instability. She believes the power behind beauty heals those who encounter it, helping overcome chaos with calm, and replacing stress with serenity. Her goal is to share her vision, and her hope is for her artwork to give the viewer a sense of peace. Angela's impressionistic work is inspired by nature: clouds, water and rock.
She works in both Acrylic and Encaustic. Her Abstracts are based on a number of different qualities found in nature: rock striations, countryside vistas, watery reflections, and the night sky. Her
 Landscapes are memories of her childhood growing up on the prairies. She loves the big open skies and the clouds that fill them. Fluid acrylic helps her attain the rolling, mingling formations, suspending them in time. Her Waterscapes reflect what is happening above as shown in the ripples of water below. Her Floral paintings are impressions of the hidden beauty found in the wilderness, untouched by human hands. The fluid acrylic helps her get a marbled effect on the petals which creates a rich, lively image. 
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Ashley Segal

Ashley Segal, is a Winnipeg based abstract artist whose work is inspired by nature, topography, and her own experiences. Ashley’s paintings convey emotion, capture curiosity, and inspire creativity.

After emerging on the boutique art-scene, Ashley’s collections have been featured in local galleries and art shows, while her commissioned-work appears in homes, hotels, and private businesses from Winnipeg to Vancouver.

Ashley invites you to immerse yourself in each painting, and let your mind wander to familiar places, experiences, and memories. Enjoy the journey.

Ashley's Website
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Audrey Dagger


​Audrey Dagger Bonneville is an oil painter who is enchanted by the infinite combination of colours on canvas. On a quest to concisely express the beauty and perfection of nature, her work is a tribute to the Canadian landscape in all its loveliness, from rock outcrops and jack pines to big skies in lake country. She's also drawn to ustic subjects- old cars, barns, and the stories they carry. Working en plein air she seeks to capture the true colours of a place, often finishing from memory in the studio. In capturing the peacefulness of the places where she paints, the tranquility is shared with her viewers. 
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Barb Blackner

Barb is a Winnipeg photographer who loves to create unique and compelling floral portraits.  She is fascinated by the colours, shapes and exquisite details that nature has created and strives to capture that beauty in her photographs.
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Barb enjoys working with different photographic styles and editing techniques, but her love of colour prevails throughout her portfolio. She presents her work using a variety of print mediums, including fine art papers, metal and acrylic, chosen to complement her subjects and the feelings they evoke.  Every piece is a celebration of nature’s magic!
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Calvin Wong

Calvin Wong is a professional illustrator with over a decade of experience in the graphic design industry. Originally from Hong Kong, he resided in Winnipeg for over three years. His artworks blend realism with surrealism, exploring themes of nature, emotions, and the human experience. Through intricate details and vibrant colors, his aim to evoke introspection and wonder in viewers, creating imaginative worlds that resonate with beauty and depth.
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Calvin is focused on expanding his artistic endeavors and promoting cultural exchange in Winnipeg, aiming to increase awareness and appreciation of diverse artistic expressions.

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Carla Rademaker


Carla is a self taught artist working from home. She enjoys creating with mixed media and collage materials in the steampunk genre. She has done this type of work for approximately the last 5 years.
Steampunk is a mixture of the Victorian and Industrialization eras, where steam and machines were used, throw in a little SciFi fantasy, think of Jules Verne and you have steampunk.
She utilizes pipes, cogs, clocks, gears, keys, lace, pictures and most anything that is available.
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Chris Simonite

Chris Simonite is an artist from Winnipeg who paints in a Picasso/George Condo inspired style he calls Cubo-Weirdism.

He has a BA, BFA and MFA and has shown his art in four countries on Earth.

​Chris Simonite has a musical/comedy/performance art alter ego, called Stan Dickie, who was the subject of his MFA thesis. He’s pretty sure the University of Ottawa never forgave him for it.

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Chris’s Website 
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Colleen Bakker

In her art Colleen wants to nurture what is life giving, beautiful, peaceful, and kind.  Shining a light on what is life giving, magnifies it.  Therefore, in her art she chooses to magnify and represent nature, hope, curiosity, strength, and beauty.

Colleen tries out  different mediums and approaches to representation. She works mainly in oil and acrylic but has explored watercolour, and mixed media as well. She has experimented with  degrees of abstraction, challenging herself to move further into abstract representation. Colleen finds excitement in contrasting textures, shapes, and values.  

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Dawn Schmidt

Dawn, inspired by the world's vibrancy, uses bright colours to capture landscape intensity. With loose, expressive brushstrokes, she conveys scenes' essence. Whether painting a landscape or cityscape, she is always looking for ways to play with light and colour, and to explore the interplay between natural and man -made environments. From the Prairies of Manitoba, Dawn is captivated by vast skies, storm clouds, and endless horizons. Her focus often lies in the reflection of light on water and snow, creating hazy warmth.

​Dawn's Website
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Diane Levit

Diane's passion for photography started 30 years ago. Her artistic interests stem largely from her paternal grandfather, an artist in Eastern Europe.  His inspiration led her to the Banff School of Fine Arts.  
She has been drawn to the Mediterranean, specifically Greece and Italy. The old world architecture combined with the resonant sunlight and vibrant colours demanded to be captured.

​More recently her lens has  focused  on wildlife,  from the Emperor Penguins of the Antarctic, to the Wild White Horses of Camargue in Southern France, to Polar Bear cubs emerging from their dens in Wapusk National Park in Manitoba.
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Dodie Mitchell


Dodie Mitchell is an award winning Winnipeg artist who was born in Vancouver, BC. She has been involved in the Arts her whole life. She created her own curriculum for basic drawing concepts and has taught private art classes to children 7-12, and adults.
Dodie has worked as a framing consultant for regular and conservation framing in her own store. She has also worked for the City of Winnipeg as a Gardener, where she helped in the choice of plant material and she sketched the design plans for the flower gardens.
Her freelance artwork covers a wide area of businesses including The Keg Restaurant and The Old Spaghetti Factory. She has done a variety of custom art from painting menu signs, wall and floor murals and Christmas scenes on storefront windows.
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Dodie's Website 
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Doug Coates

Doug's passion for drawing led him into a career in both commercial illustration and graphic design. The early years of his career offered him opportunities doing illustration work for retailers Sears, Eaton’s, Beaver Lumbers, and Ford Canada.  In 2001 he opened his own graphic design business “edge advertising” . Doug’s work of car sketching begins often with sketching in pencil on XL marker paper this is followed by colouring using mainly Copic felt markers. The white highlights are then either painted using white titanium acrylic or a fine point jell marker a style and technique compared to ChipFoose. A few pieces have been done using coloured pencils on coloured Cason art paper. 
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Dustin Glaseman

Dustin is a registered teacher with a master's in cultural studies. Dustin stepped away from academia to pursue photography in the wild places that border our lives. A neurodiverse artist, Dustin works to meld a lifetime of creative passion into a tangible expression of life on earth.

When a trip to Africa reignited a deep-seated love for flora and fauna, Dustin began a journey to photograph the natural world through the lens of ADHD. With camera in hand, Dustin traverses the liminal space between nature and art, hoping to capture the magic that lives within the wonders of the wilderness.

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Elena El

Elena El is a fine artist specializing in Winnipeg cityscapes. Her preferred medium is acrylic on canvas. Her focus on Winnipeg aims to evoke a comfort, familiarity, and pride in the beauty of the place we live. Her aim is to make paintings that makes you feel good and you wish to share with others.

Elena studied classic drawing and painting at the college of Fine Arts (Odessa, Ukraine) and graduated from College of Design (Haifa, Israel). She has illustrated more than 15 children's books and has worked as a graphic designer for advertising agencies and magazines.
In 2006 Elena made Winnipeg her home. Her studio is located at Cre8ery Gallery in the Exchange. 

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Elma Rauser

As a photographer, Elma finds that she sees things from different perspectives. Her paintings in oil, acrylic, pastels, watercolours and charcoal are inspired by what she sees in nature: beauty, design and colour.
The subjects are varied as Elma is delighted by the way light bathes each scene and her goal is to capture that light as she paints.
Spending time around water and more remote forests throughout Manitoba, northern BC and the Yukon, Elma has had opportunities to encounter various wildlife and scenes from which she draws inspiration.
She still loves the Manitoba prairies with the incredible
sunsets and colours of the changing seasons.
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Elowen Megan

Elowen is a fibre artist working primarily in needle felting wool.
The needle felting process starts with a small barbed needle and wool roving . When stabbing through the wool the scales of the needle catch on the fibre entwining them together. Through time and diligent work the fibres are bonded together. There is just something so satisfying about the tactile nature of fibre; when Elowen creates a painting you can’t help but be pulled in by it, as the fibre tempts you to touch and become part of it. . There was just something so satisfying about stabbing something thousands of times that just makes your stress disappear. We’ve always known, art makes the best therapy!
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Ghadir Aboueleinin

Ghadir, an Egyptian artist who has called Winnipeg, Manitoba home for 8 years, graduated with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Egypt in 2005. Specializing in intaglio printing, she passionately explores various mediums including acrylics, oils, pastels, charcoal, and more. Her preference for acrylics shines through in vibrant works that celebrate animals and women with dynamic colors, reflecting her joyous spirit. Ghadir's art embodies a continuous journey of exploration, blending technical expertise with a profound love for color and form, creating pieces that resonate with vitality and emotion.

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Glenda Cairns Poirier

Glenda lives on a working grain and cattle farm in southwest Manitoba. She draws inspiration for her paintings from travel and a life lived in nature.  She hopes her paintings invite the viewer to contemplate the impact we have on those we share the planet with as she tries to create an image of beauty. Her studio paintings are in acrylic and her plein-air work is in oil.

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Heather Gillespie

Heather Gillespie is an impressionist landscape painter in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a studio artist at Cre8ery Gallery and member of the Manitoba Society of Artists. Heather is a gifted visual artist who delights in sharing her impressions of the magical beauty of Manitoba lakes and forests. She embraces emotion and mixes it with colour and light which dances from her brush onto canvas. Her excellent sense of colour and bold brushstrokes display the vibrant life of nature in a most compelling way. These invigorating and expressive compositions capture and transport us toward dreams amongst the trees.​

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Ida MacKenzie

Ida is an award-winning experienced and talented multi-media artist residing in Oak Bank Manitoba. Her mediums include acrylic, watercolour, wood carving, scratch art, & mixed media.
She likes to remind the viewer how our surroundings bring pleasure to our spirit. Because she works in all mediums, she can choose just the right medium to convey her feelings; sometimes she combines several of these materials to create the beauty of the world as she sees it. She loves to depict nature and the beauty it unfolds.
Her need to create never stops, so she is always pushing herself outside her comfort zone to learn more, often through books, workshops, and peers.
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Jacobus Van Houdt

Jacobus van Houdt is a self-taught artist from Winnipeg, Canada. From an early age Jacobus has pursued his passion of art through various mediums including ink, watercolour, and acrylic. Symbolism and impressionism have had heavy influences on Jacobus’ work, as well as his travels–having traveled to all seven continents. 
In 2021 Jacobus van Houdt held his first solo show “Transcendence” at the Cre8ery. The show was in part a fundraiser and half the proceeds were donated to Arcane Horizon Community, a non-profit dedicated to enriching the lives of persons with intellectual disabilities.
Jacobus’ art has now found homes across North America, Europe, and Australia as he continues to reach an international audience.


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Jason Lee

Jason Lee, a Métis Nature photographer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is celebrated for his vibrant and captivating Fine Art Nature Photography. With an innate talent for capturing the vivid colors of the natural world, Jason's work transports viewers to breathtaking landscapes alive with vibrant hues. From sun-kissed mountain peaks to lush forest canopies, his images pulsate with energy and warmth. Meticulously crafted, each print reflects Jason's dedication to preserving nature's beauty in all its vibrant glory. Step into a world where every glance is a vibrant journey through the untouched magnificence of nature's masterpieces, expertly curated by Jason Lee.​
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Jennifer Caie

Jennifer Caie began painting at the age of sixteen, and publicly showing her work by age twenty, providing over thirty years of experiential development to her creative voice. Dryden, Ontario is home.
Caie spends time in nature which directly influences her work. Her subject: connections between environment and atmosphere during times of low light and the tensions created. She paints the feeling of remoteness, air currents, movement, and light.
In 2021, Caie received Elected Member, Society of Canadian Artists (SCA). In 2022, she earned Associate Member, Federation of Canadian Artists (AFCA). She is represented by Winnipeg’s Woodlands Gallery.
Jennifer's Website
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Jennifer Reid


Jennifer is a self taught artist that started acrylic painting in the early 90’s. Since retiring in 2021 she has immersed herself in her craft, spending many hours self teaching and further developing her skills, exponentially growing her creativity. She creates paintings from various ideas, and because of her heritage alot of her focus is turning visions of Ireland and Europe into her imagination of what it would be like to happily live there in current times or in the past. Jen loves bold colours, and shares that in all of her paintings, hoping to continually bring out warm feelings, memories and smiles with her art.

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Jo Smoley

Jo is a versatile, multimedia artist, whose deep connection with nature is evident in her artwork. An avid hiker and kayaker, she immerses herself in the places she loves to paint. Her art encapsulates the essence and whispers of Canada’s natural forests and waterways, evoking a sense of spirituality. Jo finds boundless inspiration in the Chi that surrounds her.
Jo’s creative process may begin with an image, but she allows the painting to evolve organically, sometimes engaging in a months-long dialogue between her vision and the painting’s own narrative. This dynamic interplay is an integral part of her artistic journey.
A member of the Manitoba Society of Artists, you will find her artwork at Warehouse Artworks in the Exchange District, RE/MAX Performance Realty on St. Mary’s Road, Tradition Law, LLP on 701-310 Broadway, Gwen Fox Gallery in Selkirk and many local art venues.
​Jo's Website
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Joanne Berger

Joanne Berger, a self-taught painter. She honed her artistic skills through her experience as a talented commercial artist in the advertising industry. This background sparked her desire to explore her own artistic journey and delve into various art mediums. After years of creating art based on specific client requests, she now finds joy in experimenting and painting subjects that personally inspire and deeply resonate with her.

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Jody Chanel, Wool and Sunshine

Jody loves to create works of art using a variety of fabrics and materials, including textured cottons, wools, silks, and her handspun art yarns. She hand weaves each piece and all materials are sourced from small Canadian shops. Jody uses recycled products when possible and she draws inspiration from nature and local art.
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Joy Billings

​Joy knew her calling at an early age, but it wasn't until her kids grew up that she pursued her passion for art.  She made it her mission to find value and beauty in everything, and used her creativity to draw out it's potential.   Having grown up without ever truly understanding her own potential and beauty; a shy, quiet observer with humble farm beginnings, Joy quickly became resourceful with which she did have access-- paper, and her creative mind.
Having experienced a depressive emotional breakdown in her late 30's, Joy learned how to fully embrace the depths of having a loving relationship with herself; taking her art from pristine photo-realistic perfectionism, to a more forgiving expression of play in the journey of that discovery.  With a penchant for writing, words are a large element of Joy's work, using their ability to mold the human spirit towards growth and encouragement.

​In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we are gathered on Treaty 1 Territory, the traditional land of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene people, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
ans un esprit de réconciliation, nous reconnaissons que nous sommes réunis sur le territoire du traité n° 1, la terre traditionnelle des Anishinabe (Ojibway), des Ininew (Cris), des Oji-Cris, des Dakota et des Dénés, et la patrie de la nation métisse.
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