Marie Linda Bluteau, AKA Bluto,: Artist Profile  by Antoine Tardiff. Marie Linda Bluteau signs her work as Bluto to avoid confusion with another artist of the same name. Her work is marked by the use of coffee coloured washes, achieved by using ground coffee mixed into her media. An ancient South American technique, she is the only artist in Canada using it. Bluto’s subjects are nudes and still lifes. Her nudes are sensual in an ethereal otherworld fashion.

Peter Martin: Artist Profile by Noel Meyer. Peter Martin made his name as a news photographer and is now devoting himself to exploring a photographic edge that evokes a deep emotional response. His work is dark, rich, textured, thought provoking and incurably romantic. At publication Martin is shooting in black and white, sometimes, he will then scan his work and tweak it.

Mostafa Keyhani: Artist Profile by John Meyer.Born In Iran Keyhani studied art at Tehran University and abroad before arriving in Canada in 1996. He has made his international reputation by painting impressionistic renderings of monumental buildings all over the world. While paying a high degree of attention to architectural details his buildings come to life in a soft light reminiscent of early impressionism.

Jean-Pierre Lafrance: Artist Profile by Michel Beauchamp.Jean-Pierre Lafrance started his career as a commercial artist and now works in sculpture and mixed media. His work will often find its impetus in a collage. In his work Lafrance attempts to make the viewer aware of the eternal verities, the frailty of life and death, the finite and the infinite.

Louise Kirouac: Artist Profile by Lisanne LeTellier. Lecor Kirouac was born in the Laurentian village of Brownsburg in 1939, where she still lives today. Her family is artistic. Her father was an actor and her two brothers paint. One of them is the famous chansonier and painter, Paul Tex Lecor. A figurative representational painter Kirouac is devoted to painting rural Quebec the way she remembers it. She wants to paint the past before it totally and irrevocably vanishes.tement un jour.

Toni Onley: Artist Profile by Richard Waugh. A critical appreciation of Toni Onley’s life work marking his recent death. At the age of 20 after studying in England, Onley moved to Canada ending up in British Columbia. In 1957 Onley, on a scholarship in Mexico turned to abstract art. After three years he returned to the West Coast where he developed his signature style of Zen-like landscape watercolours where empty space is as important as space that is filled.

Pierre Patry: Artist Profile by Lorraine P. Dietrich. Pierre Patry is a rising artist, one who has the ability to win international fame. His work gets better as he progresses. Patry works in mixed media using acrylics to start and oils to finish. Patry’s subjects are both abstract and figurative. Patry has had more than 40 exhibitions in Canada, the US, Europe and Japan and has won awards in international shows. A superb colourist, his work is made up of movement light and contrast.