2026
watercolour
18.5 in x 18.5 in

Value: $850
Starting Bid: $425

Artist Statement

Through watercolor, Abel explores her connection to nature, combining recognizable flora and fauna with intuitive symbols. Symmetry, harmony and chance create a mysterious “otherness”, inviting viewers to reflect on their own connection with nature.

Artist Biography

Tatyana Abel is a Canadian artist born and raised in the beautiful Georgian Bay region. Her work is deeply informed by her travel experiences, which have shaped both her artistic perspective and her choice of medium. Living in a mobile lifestyle, she has distilled her practice into a portable kit of watercolor paints, brushes, and paper, allowing her to capture the world wherever she goes. Tatyana’s passion lies in observing the natural world and sharing its subtle wonders through her art: a curiosity that has guided her since beginning the Fine Art program at Georgian College and completing her degree at NSCAD University. Her current practice explores the patterns and iconography of flora and fauna, often weaving recurring symbolic motifs throughout her work, reflecting the interconnectedness and hidden narratives of the natural environment. 

2023
oil on canvas
25.3 in x 31.3 in

Value: $2800
Starting Bid: $1400

Artist Statement

This ancient maple seemed a great symbol of the complex relationship we humans have with the natural world – its hollow trunk now filled with concrete and rebar and its limbs sadly, but optimistically, supported by posts of steel and wood.

Artist Biography

Peter Adams is an award-winning painter and visual artist. For three decades he’s been using his art to explore our relationship with nature: how we value it and connect to it, and how our engagement with nature changes it, and changes us. His work encourages conversation around beauty, isolation, entanglement, and power. Peter has lived in southern Ontario since moving from Glasgow to Toronto as a young child and now lives in Collingwood. He has been invited to participate in residencies in diverse landscapes from the Amazon rainforest of Brazil to the High Arctic of the Svalbard Archipelago. He has received numerous grants from the Ontario Arts Council and has been a finalist in the Salt Spring National Art Prize, the Kingston Prize and the Scottish Portrait Award in Fine Art. 

2023
photography
ed. 1 of 5
30 x 24

Value: $700
Starting bid: $350

Artist Statement

This photograph features the iconic tuk-tuk or autorickshaw, that transports visitors through the cobblestone streets, and through then time on the historic island of Ortigia in Sicily. The ornately handpainted exterior reflects the extension of an artist’s skill onto practical, everyday objects, turning the tuk tuk into a piece of public art.

Artist Biography

Angela Aujla was born on the west coast of British Columbia and earned her BA and MA in Sociology and Anthropology from Simon Fraser University. In addition to her visual art practice, she is a professor at Georgian College, specializing in Visual Culture. Her artwork draws on academic and personal engagements with anti-racism, postcolonial feminism, and diasporic identity. Aujla’s multidisciplinary practice spans illustration, embellished photography, collage, and mixed media installation. She explores how material objects and symbols transmit culture, evoking meaning and memory across generations and geographies. By reanimating excluded histories, her work offers a visual critique of colonial discourse and examines the complexities of cultural hybridity. Her work has been exhibited widely across Ontario and BC, and she was the 2025 recipient of the Arts and Culture Leadership Award from the Innisfil Indian Association.

2026
reclaimed embroidery thread on canvas
14 in x 11 in

Value: $400
Starting Bid: $200

Artist Statement

Engaging memory through objects and spaces informs Bagshaw’s creative practice. Using hand woven techniques with domesticated materials, such as reclaimed embroidery thread, she deconstructs and binds new patterns to respond to the material and draw attention to it. With Old Technologies (New Memories) 1, the artist considers abstract, geometric patterns in a grid, forms that often show up in her large-scale, site-specific installation practice. 

Artist Biography

Amy Bagshaw is a visual artist and educator. She earned her BFA from Queen’s University, B.Ed from the University of Toronto, and MFA from Stony Brook University, New York, with a focus on fibre installation and intermedia. A Graduate Gender Studies Scholar, her art practice extends to Intersectional Feminism and contemporary craft practices. She has exhibited throughout North America and has created public art for the Cities of Barrie and Alliston, ON. Amy has received numerous grants, participated in residencies, and she regularly publishes and presents on art, equity, and education. She is a Professor and Coordinator in the School of Design and Visual Art at Georgian College and directs The Campus Gallery. She lives in Alliston with her family.

2019
oil on canvas
24 in x 24 in

Value: $5000
Starting Bid: $2500

Artist Statement

Bahen’s primary influence is literature. Using an impasto technique of thick oil paint, he strives to interpret the power of metaphor and allegory with paint. The textured surfaces of the works and stark compositions are at once unsettling and highly engaging. Using various including water, fire and animals, Bahen constructs individual narratives that remain in a state of perpetual tension.

Artist Biography

Matt Bahen (b.1979) is an artist living and working in Toronto. He received his BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2002. In 2013 his exhibition Gravity’s Faith was held at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, In 2022 his exhibition There is Something Happening in the Valley was held at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery in Brantford Ontario, in 2024 his exhibition Coming Down the Mountain was held at the MacIntosh Gallery at Western University London Ontario. Bahen is represented in Toronto by Nicholas Metivier Gallery, and in Edmonton by Peter Robertson Gallery.

2026
digital photo
22.25 in x 26.5 in

Value: $500
Starting Bid: $250

Artist Statement

I Was Once the Prince of Wales explores the Prince of Wales as a historic and beloved grade school in Barrie that has been abandoned to development limbo and left to the pigeons and unhoused for many years.

Artist Biography

Andre Beneteau was born in Windsor, Ontario where he received his first vintage camera as a teenager and hasn’t put them down since. After a degree in geology Beneteau studied audio visual production, leading to a career in AV production and photography. In 1987, Andre concentrated on commercial and event photography with a specialization in architecture – a sensibility that has influenced his subsequent work, marking the beginning of his photography of artists’ work.   

Beneteau’s personal work emerged in 2002 with a solo show at Double Door Studios in Anten Mills, Ont. In 2003 he documented the Shore/lines Projects for Barrie’s MacLaren Art Centre. In 2005 he was commissioned to explore the community and environment of Barrie’s Little Lake. Beneteau continues to shoot events, people, fine art, landscapes and architecture.  He has documented the MacLaren Art Centre’s permanent collection for MacLaren On Line and has taught photography at the MacLaren Art Centre, the Town of Innisfil, the Barrie Art Club, and for the South Simcoe Arts Council. His photos have been featured in a variety of commercial and architectural publications, portfolios, and private collections and have been exhibited at various locations through the South Simcoe Arts Council. Photography is still a source of enjoyment and creative energy for Andre. 

2026
latex paint on wooden panel
12 in x 16 in

Value: $400
Starting Bid: $200

Artist Statement

Inspired by the first signs of spring in the province, Ontario Spring brings together a bluebird in flight and a woodland floor filled with trilliums. Black sought to capture that feeling of colour and life suddenly returning to the landscape after winter. The simplified forms and bold layers of colour reflect the way we remember these small, fleeting moments in nature. 

Artist Biography  

Dianne Black is an emerging visual artist whose work transforms the landscapes and wildlife of Ontario into bold, layered compositions. Through vibrant fields of colour, Black distills flora and fauna into simplified silhouettes that evoke both storytelling and pattern. Horses, swans, rabbits, butterflies, deer, snakes, and wildflowers often appear in Black’s work, recurring as archetypal figures within patterned natural scenes. 

Her  practice is rooted in a deep connection to place, weaving together the vitality of local ecosystems with a sense of myth and memory. 

n.d.
carved slate
ed. 1 of 1
13 in x 24 in

Value: $800
Starting Bid: $400

Artist Statement

Bolohan first became interested in the structure of canoes after seeing older examples at the Visitor’s Centre in Algonquin Park, and the Canoe Museum in Peterborough. The canoe represented in this slate carving is based on an Ottawa River Algonquin Birch Bark Canoe.

Artist Biography

Denis Bolohan has been creating sculptures, installations, and site-specific land works since graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in 1980. 

 The southwestern Ontario native who now makes Cookstown his home recycles natural materials and man-made objects to create one-of-a-kind artworks, and his site-specific works include snow sculptures, fire sculptures, and full-scale walkable labyrinths.  His work has appeared at the University of Waterloo, the Museum of Dufferin, Creemore’s Festival of the Arts, the Parliament of World Religions in Toronto, the International Plowing Match in Ivy (Ontario), Ottawa’s Winterlude, Quebec City’s Winter Carnival, Cookstown’s Light-Up Night, and the MacLaren Art Centre. His most recent commission was for the Tree of Life Labyrinth at the Innisfil ideaLAB and Library in Cookstown in 2021-2022. 

n.d.
carved slate
ed. 1 of 1
13 in x 24 in

Value: $800
Starting Bid: $400

Artist Statement

Where Bolohan grew up, corn was one of the major cash crops.  Today, it is used for purposes as diverse as food, bio-fuels and art. This gong, made from two steel farming disc plates, uses a corn motif as decoration.

Artist Biography

Denis Bolohan has been creating sculptures, installations, and site-specific land works since graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in 1980. 

 The southwestern Ontario native who now makes Cookstown his home recycles natural materials and man-made objects to create one-of-a-kind artworks, and his site-specific works include snow sculptures, fire sculptures, and full-scale walkable labyrinths.  His work has appeared at the University of Waterloo, the Museum of Dufferin, Creemore’s Festival of the Arts, the Parliament of World Religions in Toronto, the International Plowing Match in Ivy (Ontario), Ottawa’s Winterlude, Quebec City’s Winter Carnival, Cookstown’s Light-Up Night, and the MacLaren Art Centre. His most recent commission was for the Tree of Life Labyrinth at the Innisfil ideaLAB and Library in Cookstown in 2021-2022. 

2024
acrylic on canvas
N/A
5 in x 5 in each

Value: $525
Starting Bid: $250

Artist Statement

For decades Brown-Green has used the symbol of water in her paintings to mark family memories and reflect on teachings passed down by Indigenous Elder; using pools of color to radiate energy and bring together the importance of water. These three little paintings have traveled like a flowing stream in three different exhibitions, carrying our water relatives sharing the message.

Artist Biography

Born in Toronto, Dianne Brown-Green is an Indigenous artist of Cree heritage now living north of Toronto, spending most of her time in the Algonquin Park area immersed in the beauty of nature camping and canoeing. Her work has been exhibited at McMichael Canadian Art Gallery, the Royal Alberta Museum, The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Art Gallery of Guelph , Hamilton Art Gallery, The Princes of Whales Northern Heritage Centre (Yellowknife) Woodland Cultural Centre in the Annual Indigenous Juried Art show as well as a solo show (2025-26) Juried and solo Show at Latcham Art Centre Stouffville . She is honoured to have her work in the office of Konrad Sioui , as well as other private and corporate collections around the world. She was a contributing member of the Waling with Our Sisters, a commemorative installation honouring the lives of missing and murdered women of Canada, She is a strong supporter of protecting our Mother Earth and her creatures for future generations . In the artist’s own words: “I always remember where I come from, the gifts I’ve received from Mother Earth, the Elders and the community in my life”.

This piece was donated by Lydia Olah.

n.d.
acrylic on canvas
17.5 in x 21.5 in

Value: $500
Starting Bid: $250

Artist Statement 

Much of Marlene Bulas’ paintaings are impressionistic: especially her landscapes, still life, floral and figurative paintings. Bulas also considers herself an experimental artist and has been exploring abstraction and intuitive paintings on paper and canvas as well. Love of colour and the painting process itself are the primary focus of her art.

Artist Biography 

Marlene Bulas obtained her BA from York University in 1993 and has attended Georgian College Design and Visual Arts Program from 1996 – 1999, as well as numerous art workshops throughout Canada and the USA. A major influence on her work has been her mother who studied with the Group of Seven, as well as the encouragement of her husband and three children. Marlene has participated in various shows and has exhibited in Alliston, Barrie, Collingwood, Orillia, Penetanguishene, Toronto, Windsor, Buffalo, Westfied, New York, Florida, Calgary and Montreal. Paintings by Marlene Bulas can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, U.S.A., UK, South America, Caribbean, France, Saudi Arabia, Panama and Bermuda.

2026
earthenware
13 in x 8 in x 12 in

Value: $650
Starting Bid: $325

Artist Statement

Carr’s recent work explores the many facets of transportation: from the everyday to the fantastical.

Artist Biography

Nadine Carr is a Ceramic Artist specializing in hand built, slip cast and press mold, distinct, functional works and art pieces. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Nadine was awarded an additional year apprenticing in Florence Italy, further developing her expressive artistic vision. Her unusual ceramic pieces span from functional serving pieces to creative ceramic sculptures.

2006
oil on plywood
20 in x 20 in

Value: $900
Startingb Bid: $450

Artist Statement

Cullen responds to the resonance of ancient landscapes and inhabited places, translating their subtle, felt thresholds into a minimalist interpretation of quiet intensity, stillness and movement.

Artist Biography

Teresa Cullen, BFA, MA, studied visual arts at Concordia University, Montreal. She has been an exhibiting artist since 1979 and has her artwork in many personal and corporate collections. Her studio practice is in Oro-Medonte, Ontario. Her practice draws inspiration from elemental places of vast space, luminous light, and rich history. She finds that the primal resonance of ancient landscapes and inhabited places evokes a quiet intensity, inviting exploration of subtle thresholds between stillness and arising. Reduction and restraint form the foundation of her post-minimalist approach.

This piece was generously donated by Joan Lehman. 

1997
wood, acrylic, steel
30 x 26 x 70 in

Value: $2000
Starting Bid: $1000

Artist Biography

Artist Peter Dennis graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1966 where he majored in industrial design. Over the years his career has gone in many directions and, at different times, he has worked as a sculptor, a toy and exhibition designer, a design consultant and even a boat maker. In 1971 Dennis joined the faculty of Design and Visual Arts at Georgian College and continued to teach there for more than 25 years. Dennis was also involved in the design and construction of an environmentally oriented home near Dunedin, Ontario in the early 1980s and, more recently, built his own home near Creemore, Ontario where he now lives. Currently, he continues to pursue his work as a sculptor which now take the form of “automata” or, as he describes them, mechanical sculptures which require viewer participation.

2026
linocut relief print
21.5 in x 17 in

Value: $300
Starting Bid: $150

Artist Statement

Nighttime Dog asks the viewer to consider the magic behind the ordinary. The subject matter of the print is an ordinary dog, but the crescent moon and Solomon’s Seal hint at themes of magic and mystery.

Artist Biography

Samantha Dewaele is an Ontario-based illustrator and printmaker. She works in a variety of different mediums, including linocut, watercolour monoprint and gouache. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and Literature and an MA in Literature. She has worked in the children’s book publishing industry for over a decade, which greatly influences her desire for storytelling in her own work. When she isn’t making artwork, Samantha is walking her dog or adding to her rock collection.

2026
inkjet print
24 in x 18 in

Value: $850
Starting Bid: $425

Artist Statement

The finger puppets of Show me where it hurts are modeled after items within a traditional still life painting. Together they form a memento mori, an absurd kid-like reminder of the beauty, brightness, grief, joy, and comedy of life and death.

Hannah Doucet

Hannah Doucet (she/her) is an artist and arts educator from Winnipeg, based in Toronto. She works within photography, video, and sculpture to explore fantasy, illness, and the body. She has exhibited at venues including Gallery 44, The National Gallery of Canada, PLATFORM, Arsenal Contemporary Art and The New Gallery. Doucet won the inaugural PLATFORM Photography Award and was a recipient of the National Gallery of Canada’s New Generation Photography award in 2023. Doucet attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2024, and MASS MoCA Studios Residency in 2026. She is one of four founders of Blinkers (now titled C’cap), a gallery in Winnipeg, where she was a co-director until August 2021. She has over 14 years of experience working within community arts and arts education as a program manager, coordinator and artist facilitator in schools, community centers, shelters, hospitals, universities, art galleries and museums.

2026
gypsum cement and self hardening clay
9 x 24 x 5 in

Value: $1600
Starting Bid: $800

Artist Statement

The small wall dog sculptures were inspired by a personal memory of a dog running with the horses along the fence line between Esau’s property and the neighboring horse farm.

Artist Biography

Gail Esau traveled extensively before obtaining an Honors BFA from York University (Toronto, 1989). She studied Anatomy for the Artist at University of Toronto in 1982-83. Working with cadavers in the evening after the medical students dissected in the day left a lasting impression that continues to inform her work to this day.

2026
mixed media on flattened beverage can
6 x 4 x 0.25 in

Value: $300
Starting Bid: $150

Artist Statement

Nahúm Flores explores memory through materials and objects that transport him to the past. He draws inspiration from Mesoamerican aesthetics, where layering and transformation carry spiritual and cultural significance.

Artist Biography

Nahúm Flores was born in Danlí­, Honduras and immigrated to Canada at age 17, after living in Mexico and the US. He holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from OCAD University. He has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council. His paintings and drawing installations have been widely exhibited in Canada and Central America.

2025
acrylic paint
20 in x 40 in

Value: $800
Starting Bid: $400

Artist Statement

Over the years, the painting of unique and evocative nature landscapes has dominated the subject matter of Paul Forde’s paintings and drawings. Forde has a genuine concern for the future of the natural world and fears its loss due to human development and unhindered inappropriate misuse.

Artist Biography

Paul Forde is originally from Oakville, but has resided in Barrie for the last 34 years with his wife. He graduated with a focus on the fine arts from both the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Guelph. He is an avid naturalist and enjoys hiking and canoeing. He brings his communion with nature to his brush and invites the viewers to perceive nature in a unique and very creative way.

2005
mixed media drawing with collage
33 in x 40 in

Value: $2850
Starting Bid: $1425

Artist Statement

From The Hands Of An Angel #26, 2005 is from a movement of a thematic body of drawings that explore and celebrate the notion of “open handedness” generosity. This drawing was intended to address seasonal change, the autumn season – Fall – metaphorically, where the culmination of the season of Spring and Summer is “offered up” in preparation for Winters sleep. This drawing was also taken into a large painting format along with 3 other works from the same seasonal conceptual movement on steel that symbolically acted as a contrasting visual substrate to the painted image.

Artist Biography

Ted Fullerton is a Canadian artist who works in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture and has achieved awards in all four media. As a figurative artist, his work is symbolic in nature. The conceptual foundation and ideology within his artistic practice are humanist in nature emphasizing the notion of belief, purpose and relationships: being and becoming. His work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous private and public collections. He has participated in over 70 solo exhibitions and 115 group exhibitions. He was awarded, Excellence in the Arts by the City of Barrie, Ontario in 2010, the Georgian College Board of Governors Award of Excellence in 2012 and inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy in 2009. He has been commissioned for several public sculpture commissions – the City of Guelph and the City of Kitchener – St. Albert, Alberta – Manitoulin Island: a sculpture to recognize Reconciliation – and the City of Waterloo to mention a few. The Dan Lawrie -International Sculpture Collection, Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario acquired and installed a large permanent sculpture in 2019. In a ½ hour documentary titled, Street Sauce: Public Art in the Waterloo, Ontario Region, three public sculptures of the artist are featured. Fullerton was invited by the European Cultural Centre to exhibit in Venice, Italy during the 2022 Venice Biennale at the exhibition venues of Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora and Marinaressa Gardens. As an educator, he was professor and head of the Fine Art Program at Georgian College, School of Design and Visual Art from 1978-2013. His artwork is represented in Canada by Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto and Vancouver.

1994
ink on paper
16.5 in x 15 in

Value: $1050
Starting Bid: $525

Artist Statement

Working in various media including drawing, painting, film and music, Gould’s artistic output is characterized by spontaneity and improvisation. Much of his work shows a strong influence of theatre, with attempts to capture the qualities and expressions that actors convey to their audiences through performances.

Artist Biography

 John Gould is one of Simcoe County’s best-known and highly celebrated artists. Born in Toronto in 1929, Gould studied drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art from 1948 to 1952 and subsequently travelled to Europe where he studied at the Academie Julienne in Paris. In 1957, he began working for the CBC as a scene painter, and by 1960 won the Elizabeth T. Greenshield’s Fellowship for figurative painting. During the mid-1960s, Gould began to add a new dimension to his drawings by filming them and adding narrative elements and sound effects. Within a decade he created several films based on his impressions of people he encountered while travelling throughout Canada, Mexico, Japan and Peru. In the 1970s, Gould moved to Waubaushene, Ontario and began teaching as well as playing clarinet in the Fig Leaf Jazz Band.  In 1996 he suffered a stroke that affected the right side of his body, and his skills as a draughtsman had to be re-learned, resulting in a technically simplified but expressively intense final period to his work. Gould died in Barrie in January of 2010.

2026
fabric and acrylic
17 x 12 x 1 in

Value: $300
Starting Bid: $150

Artist Statement

Depicting a loving couple balancing on a crescent moon, OVER the MOON is a suitable name for this romantic scene.

Artist Biography

Ingi Gould‘s training as an actress led her to become the fabric artist she is today. While acting in Stratford she was exposed to wonderful costumes, props and sets. Shortly after moving to Simcoe County in 1971, Ingi started creating her own designs in fabric. She uses cotton fabric to make her original designs which she then carefully sculpts, hand paints and glazes. Ingi has participated in many craft shows, group art shows and her work sold in various retail outlets and galleries. Ingo has also taught in Toronto for the Art in the Schools program, and given workshops in galleries. She is featured in Paula Gianturco’s book  Grandmother Powers.

2022
digital drawing, selected compositions materialized as archival digital prints on Hahnemuhle paper
ed. 1 of 2
8.5 x 11

Value: $904
Starting Bid: $450

Artist Statement

The letters series aims to synthesize a broad range of abstract visual compositional strategies. Oscillating between the alphabetic and the epistolary, each ‘letter’ draws from the depth of Granados’ training in drawing and painting.

Artisst Biography 

Francisco-Fernando Granados was born in Guatemala City and lives in Toronto, Dish With One Spoon Territory. Since 2005, his practice has traced a movement from Convention Refugee to critical citizen, enacting abstraction site-specifically and relationally to create a body of work that challenges the stability of practices of recognition. His way of working developed from the intersection of formal painterly training, working in performance through artist-run spaces, the study of queer and feminist theory, and early activism as a peer support worker with immigrant and refugee communities in Coast Salish Territories in the West Coast. These experiences trained his intuitions to seek context-responsive approaches, alternative forms of distribution, and the weaving of lyrical and critical propositions.

2024
image transfer, cotton textile, thread, beads
11 x 14 in

Value: $300
Starting Bid: $150

Artist Statement

This artwork is part of a series comparing sexual kinks and preferences to frozen desserts, shining light on what we don’t talk about.

Artist Biography

Katie Green is a Barrie artist with a passion for community and bringing art into all areas of life. She works across multiple mediums, most prominently textiles, printmaking and drawing. She enjoys pushing the boundaries between mediums as well as playing with the line between useful design and fine art. She often uses humour and symbolism to examine the unsaid within the human experience. Her work is playful and includes elements colour, texture, and material exploration.

She completed a Fine Art minor at Mount Allison University and returned to update her studio experience at OCADU years later. She cofounded Spare Room, a shared artist studio space in 2019 and it has grown to become a registered non-profit and creative community hub. She received the 2nd year award for Printmaking at OCADU in 2012, the John Hartman Art Award and Barrie Arts Award for Community Contributions in 2022 and the Grace Annie Lockhart Sesquicentennial Pin in 2026 for meaningful contributions through leadership, service, innovation and community impact.

2026
oil on copper object
5 x 3 x 4 in

Value: $800
Starting Bid: $400

Artist Statement

This work is part of going process on copper plate previously used for dry point and doing applications of oil paint.

Artist Biography

Sadko Hadžihasanović studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia, earned his MFA at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1984) and arrived in Canada in 1993. Since his arrival from Bosnia, Sadko has participated in over 100 exhibitions in public galleries and artist-run centres across Canada. He is the recipient of visual arts grants from Toronto Art Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Sadko continues to explore identity, and its cultural and social implications, with an extensive portraiture-based body of work using mixed media and collage, and an array of references to popular culture. Notable show was Sadko Hadžihasanović – The Icons at Mestna Galerija / City Art Gallery Ljubljana in Ljubljana in 2005. Other notable exhibitions were at UB Art Galleries – University of Buffalo in Buffalo, NY and International Print Center New York in New York City, National Gallery of Bosnia and Hercegovina in Sarajevo, Ulrich Museumof Art in Whichita, USA, MacMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario, Art Gallery of Mississauga and University Gallery of Waterloo in Ontario in 2024.

2023
pencil crayon on paper
10 x 14 in

Value: $1000
Starting Bid: $500

Artist Statement

Untidy Spots draws on a personal archive of images posted locally on Snapchat. This collection of anonymous images depicts quotidian life as documented by everyday people: a foggy bowl of instant ramen; a rideshare driver’s rearview mirror accessory dangling before a dark highway. Through the retracing of these images, Harder tries to reveal the beauty, horror, and palpable desire for transcendence and human connection in the hidden just below a thin topsoil of banality.

Artist Biography

Meghan Harder is an artist living in St. Catharines, Ontario, working in the areas of drawing, writing, sound, sculpture and installation. She received her MFA from the University of Guelph and has exhibited at Blouin-Division Project Space, Xpace Cultural Centre, Hunt Gallery, Xpace Cultural Centre, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Forum of Kitchener and Area, The Plumb, and the Lincoln Museum.

2025
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in

Value: $2500
Starting Bid: $1250

Artist Statement

Depicting a view from Fox Island looking towards Fox Lake in Northern Georgian Bay, Hartman used a drone to capture this view, then used the images as a reference photograph to paint from.

Artist Biography

Joseph Hartman is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Hamilton, ON. After receiving an MSc in Kinesiology and being accepted into medical school, Hartman decided to pursue a career as an artist. He apprenticed with Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky and has received numerous awards, including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. His work can be found in several important collections including the Art Gallery of Hamilton, The McMicheal Canadian Art Collection, McMaster Museum of Art, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the MacLaren Art Centre.

2026
powdered indigo pigment and copper on paper
12 x 12 in

Value: $650
Starting Bid: $325

Artist Statement

Jessica Hein works with natural pigments on paper to create drawings that evoke shifting topographies. Through material processes she explores our relationships with earth’s systems, its landforms, waterways, skyscapes, and glaciers.

Artist Biography

Jessica Hein studied visual art at NSCAD University in Halifax and received a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. She taught for many years in the Studio program at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her artwork has been exhibited across Canada, including at the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art, Le Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Latcham Gallery, Art Museum (University of Toronto), and MacLaren Art Centre. Her work is held in public and private collections. Hein is also co-founder of Edgeland Collective, an art initiative exploring the intersections of culture, community, and ecology through engagement with urban wilds.

2026
powdered indigo pigment and copper on paper
12 x 12 in

Value: $650
Starting Bid: $325

Artist Statement

Jessica Hein works with natural pigments on paper to create drawings that evoke shifting topographies. Through material processes she explores our relationships with earth’s systems, its landforms, waterways, skyscapes, and glaciers.

Artist Biography

Jessica Hein studied visual art at NSCAD University in Halifax and received a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. She taught for many years in the Studio program at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her artwork has been exhibited across Canada, including at the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art, Le Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Latcham Gallery, Art Museum (University of Toronto), and MacLaren Art Centre. Her work is held in public and private collections. Hein is also co-founder of Edgeland Collective, an art initiative exploring the intersections of culture, community, and ecology through engagement with urban wilds.

1991
hand painted archival silver print
ed. 4 of 7
26 x 29 in

Value: $1000
Starting Bid: $500

Artist Statement

Henrickson’s work begins with a desire to bring inner vision into tangible form. In the series Plant Shadows, she photographs living plants onto white paper, capturing the shadows they cast as light travels from the sun to earth. The quiet of these shadows caught her perception as it arrived.

Artist Biography

Martha Henrickson is an artist, photographer, and poet based on Georgian Bay, Ontario. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Henrickson has been self-taught since childhood, and she later went on to study at the Brooklyn Museum, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Art Students League.

In 1968, Henrickson moved to Toronto from San Francisco and began using cameras to capture her new surroundings. In 1969, she was part of 567 Queen Street West, Toronto’s first artist-run gallery. Henrickson has shown work across the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Toronto Photographic Workshop at Harbourfront, the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, North York Public Library, Latcham Gallery, Red Deer Museum, Moose Jaw Art Museum, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as locally at Quest and The Double Doors Gallery.

Working across photographic collage and drawing, she has produced several chapter books, along with two artist books made with her husband, Thomas Henrickson, in the 1970s: The Organic Zucchini and Awakenings. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie, and Georgian Bay General Hospital in Midland. Henrickson retired with Thomas to Georgian Bay in 2000, where she continues to work from her home studio.

2008
fiberglass
40 x 10 in

Value: $2000
Starting Bid: $1000

Artist Statement

Marlene Hilton Moore’s art practice is imbedded in lived experience that is translated through various materials and processes into the voice of women in contemporary society.

Artist Biography

Marlene Hilton Moore’s studio work for the past twenty-five years engages the identity of the female in contemporary society through sculpture, audiovisual installations and photography. Encoded cultural messages are imbedded in these artworks that weave together a subtle social history. Her extensive schedule of solo and group exhibitions includes galleries in Ontario, Quebec and the East Coast.

Marlene has also been a recipient of many Public Art Commissions over the last twenty-five years. Her distinctive profile in Canadian visual arts is marked by outstanding achievements at local and national levels, particularly in the complex arena of Public Art and Monuments.

Marlene retired from her professorship at the School of Design and Visual Arts, Georgian College following a distinguished 25-year teaching career. In 2014 Hilton Moore received the City of Barrie’s Excellence in Arts Award.

2020
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in

Value: $600
Starting Bid: $300

Artist Statement

Everything from climate change to bizarre beliefs has had its place in motivating Karklins to produce her paintings. Quite aside from that is the pleasure that she takes in painting generally.

Artist Biography

Mostly self-taught, Gita Karklins has been following her own path within her painting career since the eighties with many solo and group shows and awards over the years.

2023
graphite on cotton paper
14.5 x 21 in

Value: $2000
Starting Bid: $1000

Artist Statement

Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an interdisciplinary artist working through conceptual frameworks of grief, loss and their inevitable connections to time, presence and meaning.

Artist Biography

Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her art education began at School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, before completing her BFA at Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2020. Kim’s solo exhibition was presented at Franz Kaka (Toronto, CA). She has exhibited at Joys Independent Gallery, Zalucky Contemporary, the plumb (Toronto, CA), Hawkins Headquarters (Atlanta, US), Tala, Weatherproof (Chicago, US), and New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation (New York, US). She has participated in the Roundtable Residency (Toronto, CA) and NARS Foundation International Residency (Brooklyn, US).

2025
photo transfer onto porcelain plate
10 x 10 in

Value: $500
Starting Bid: $250

Artist Statement

How may familiar objects be transformed into vessels for public dialogue?

In My Fortune Cookie Says, crushed cookies and porcelain dishes are paired with messages sourced from recent protest movements. Presenting statements that challenge us to confront difficult conversations, these plates reflect the power they may hold, and how these everyday objects may participate in activism and resistance in subtle and poetic forms.

Text by curator Ashley Carmichael.

Artist Biography

A third-generation Chinese Canadian, Don Kwan turns to his own experiences and challenges of being a gay, East Asian artist as a way to ground in broader conversations about identity, representation, and intergenerational memory-making in the diaspora.

2023
monoprint of measuring tapes, ink on paper
30.25 x 22.5 in

Value: $3800
Starting Bid: $1900

Artist Statement

Kristiina Lahde makes art that reimagines everyday objects and materials. Under Pressure 4 is an impression of a measuring tape that has been crushed in a printing press to create a unique print. The measuring tool once used to make order of the world is now an unruly tangle of zigzags.

Artist Biography

Kristiina Lahde is an artist born in Toronto, Canada in 1974. Lahde received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1999. Since then she has been exhibiting across Canada and in the USA. In 2025 Kristiina attended the Annandale Artist Residency in PEI and the Art & Walking residency at Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island. Recently Kristiina’s work was featured at Season Art Fair in Detroit and at Contemporary Calgary, AB. In 2026 Lahde’s exhibit Emergent Geometries was at Latcham Art Centre in Whitchurch-Stouffville, ON. Her works are held in numerous private, corporate and public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank. Kristiina Lahde is represented by MKG127 in Toronto.

2024
pencil crayon on paper
8 x 6 in

Value: $500
Starting Bid: $250

Artist Statement

In the artist’s own words: A baseball field would not work well in the forest.

Artist Biography

Mathieu Larone (b.1995) is an artist living and working in Montreal. His work is known for its simple juxtaposition of conflicting ideas and symbols, set upon bare and austere backdrops. He works primarily in the field of illustration and experimental animation. Larone obtained his bachelors degree at OCADU in Toronto in 2020. After moving back to Montreal during the pandemic, he began working on a wide variety of projects, ranging from music videos, editorial illustration commissions, book illustration, institutional illustrations, as well as personal projects. Over the last three years, his focus has shifted to projects that allow him to explore his own sensibilities and collaborate with other passionate artists.

2026
collage on Stonehenge paper
22 x 30 in

Value: $750
Starting Bid: $375

Artist Statement

Created in relation to a series called A HISTORY OF THE WORLD, ALL THE THINGS focuses on aesthetic and formal relationships of image and object through printed matter, as well as our relationship to them. Through cut out collage, familiar images are decontextualized, hidden hierarchies are exposed, and relationships between images are revealed. The thing in itself is transformed to make visible the language that shape our desires, history, culture, and understanding of the world. 

Artist Biography

Ramolen Laruan is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto, ON. Her non-medium specific practice explores displacement, migration, and politics of knowledge with questions relating to notions of truths, memory work, and failure tactics through sculpture, collage, print, textile, installation, moving image and sound. They have received support from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. Select exhibitions include HOHOL at grunt gallery (2024); The Grotto (2024) and Double-Edged (2022) at Xpace Cultural Centre; still, unfolding at Zalucky Contemporary (2020); and an intimate index at Latcham Art Centre (2022). Laruan has participated in R.A.R.O Residency in Spain and PILOTENKUECHE in Germany. Laruan holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queen’s University, and a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Western Ontario.

2022
oil
20 x 20 in

Value: $450
Starting Bid: $225

Artist Statement

Norma Lee lives in the scenic Georgian Bay area, Ontario. Her subject matter is quite varied, including figurative, still life and landscape, and she draws her inspiration mainly from what she sees around her. Painting primarily with oils and employing vibrant colours and a variety of techniques, she tries to capture the light in all that she paints. 

Artist Biography

Norma Lee was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Her education has been mainly workshops throughout the years, two summers spent at Georgian College under the guidance of Scott Sawtell and her biggest influence was with Ottawa artist Gordon Harrison when she took 2 European and Newfoundland trips. She has received a 2nd place award at Rational Expressions Gallery, Stayner, 2016 and has paintings spread throughout Canada. 

2026
mixed media
10 x 12 in

Value: $275
Starting Bid: $150

Artist Statement

The Aerial Series explores the idea of an unknown destination/places that exist somewhere between landscape, memory, imagination, and discovery. Each work begins without a predetermined destination. The process is intentionally unpredictable, allowing the materials to guide the direction of the piece and reveal something unexpected along the way.

Artist Biography

Lee-Ann LeMesurier is a versatile artist with a strong foundation in both sculpture and printmaking, complemented by a broad and diverse body of work. Having graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree, LeMesurier has cultivated a practice that is deeply interpersonal and often self-reflective, exploring themes of identity, connection, including the human experience and military life.

In addition to their artistic pursuits, LeMesurier holds a degree in Interior Decorating, a skillset that enhances her approach to creating immersive environments and thoughtful compositions. With a passion for fostering creativity, they actively share their love of art by teaching and volunteering, dedicating time to support and engage with the broader community.

2025
photography
ed. 1 of 10
24 x 30 in

Value: $2500
Starting Bid: $1250

Artist Statement

Part of Leslie’s photographic series Pinhole Parishes (2023-25), the selected image, School Gyal, explores memory, place, and intergenerational connection through the lens of her Jamaican heritage. Drawing inspiration from stories and memories shared by relatives, Leslie’s images create a dialogue between past and present, reconstructing familial and cultural histories shaped by migration, geography, and fragmented archives. The series maps stories across all fourteen civil territorial divisions in Jamaica known as parishes.

Artist Biography

Christina Leslie is a Toronto lens-based artist and independent curator whose practice explores decolonization, identity, migration, marginalization, and her West Indian heritage. Working with experimental photography and text, she examines intersections of history, memory, and race.

Leslie holds a B.F.A. from OCAD University (2006) and an M.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2022). She recently served as Interim Assistant Curator at the McMaster Museum of Art, where she curated the collection exhibition THE GREAT UNSEEN (2025).

Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada’s Pier 21, the Art Gallery of Windsor, McMaster Museum of Art, MOCA Toronto, Paris Photo, GAMU in Prague, Oakland University in Michigan, BAND Gallery, RIT City Art Space in Rochester, and the Exposure Festival in Calgary. Recent solo exhibitions include Likkle Acts at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Pinhole Portraits and Places at Stephen Bulger Gallery, and Sugar Coat at the Ottawa School of Art.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Wedge Collection, TD Bank, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, McMaster Museum of Art, and Doris McCarthy Gallery.

Leslie is a 2026 Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Award finalist and recipient and is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.

2022
pencil on letterpress-printed page
8.5 x 11 in

Value: $500
Starting Bid: $250

Artist Statement

Hand Drawing Shapes is a unique drawing which is part of a larger series. Each drawing in the series is made on a letter-size piece of paper on which a found image of a hand holding a pencil has been letterpress-printed in the top right hand corner. Then, working with a variety of acrylic templates, Lexier respond very intuitively, adding little geometric flourishes, which seem to magically appear as if they were drawn by the letterpress-printed hand itself.

Artist Biography

Micah Lexier is a Toronto-based artist whose activities include making, collecting, and organizing. He has a deep interest in measurement, increment, the passage of time, found imagery, geometry and display structures. His projects range in scale and permanence from printed ephemera to public sculptures. He has presented over 120 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 250 group exhibitions and has produced sixteen permanent public commissions. Micah Lexier is represented by MKG127, Toronto.

2026
acrylic
30 x 15

Value: $550
Starting Bid: $275

Artist Statement

When walking through the woods or seen from a distance, trees seem to respond to their environment through their individual dance. Dancing seeks to capture their movement through acrylic brushstrokes.

Artist Biography

Joanne Lomas is a long time resident of Simcoe County. She received her BFA through Georgian College and Thompson Rivers University. Her work is mainly focused on landscape. She is an avid camper, hiker and traveler and loves to explore her surroundings with paint and photography. Her work is intuitive, relying on the moment and how the medium reacts to the surface. Painting abstractly with subtle expressions of familiarity, Joanne’s paintings encourage the viewer to experience the moment as their own.

2023
mixed
30 x 30 in

Value: $1500
Starting Bid: $750

Artist Statement

Wild at Heart is an abstracted floral of wild flowers trying to be contained in a vase. MacKinnon prefers a much freer embracing of them: allowing them be wild and wonderful.

Artist Biography

Sharon is a contemporary abstract painter and a lifetime member of the Ontario Society of Artists. Her expressionist landscape and floral paintings are collected internationally. She has taught painting on Arctic and Antarctic expedition cruises and has paintings in several Canadian Embassies.

2026
watercolour
16 x 20

Value: $350
Starting Bid: $175

Artist Statement

Lorraine Maher was trained in graphic and commercial art. In 1988, she transitioned to focusing primarily on fine art. Her main interest shines in watercolour medium, she also enjoys painting in oil and acrylic.

Artist Biography

Lorraine Maher is an expressive artist working primarily on Watercolour. Her history stretches decades of sharing her work both locally, nationally and in international markets. Lorraine’s love of people and nature shines throughout all of her work.

2026
digital photograph printed on polished aluminum
22.5 x 30 in

Value: $850
Starting Bid: $425

Artist Statement

Life Stilled explores how we internalize and experience the natural world, the interplay between surface and space, and the connections between seen and unseen. She has a passion for expressive landscape and botanical imagery, and how it reflects the presence of place. The concept of Biophilia, positing that life has a mysterious inner dynamic, a life force of its own, is fundamental to her practice.

Artist Biography

Claudia studied Literature and Art History at Queen’s University (BA Hons) and the University of Toronto (MA, BEd); Art Therapy at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute (DTATI); and Integrated Art, Media, and Design at OCAD University (MFA). She has exhibited in public and commercial galleries since 1984.

Claudia grew up in Midland, Ontario, Canada, and lives in downtown Barrie, Ontario. She works in her home studio and in outdoor settings on Bone Island, Georgian Bay and Lake Panache, southwest of Sudbury.

A recently retired educator, curriculum consultant, and registered art therapist, with appointments ranging from Kindergarten to college and university programs, Claudia completed her MFA thesis and accompanying exhibition in Spring 2023. Her painting practice has now expanded to include installation, poetry and prose, and photography.

2020
oil over acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 in

Value: $5000
Starting Bid: $900

Artist Statement

 Marchessault frequently use images of trees as a theme, exploring the endless metaphors available from the subject.

Artist Biography

Robert Marchessault is a Canadian artist located in Oro-Medonte. He is represented by Bau-Xi Galleries Toronto and Vancouver, Foster White Gallery in Seattle, and Galeries de Bellefeuille in Montreal. His landscape work focuses on trees and recently vertical gardens. He is married to the minimalist painter Teresa Cullen.

2026
vintage photography, acrylic and oil paint
24 x 20 in

Value: $1450
Starting Bid: $725

Artist Statement

Sarah’s artwork combines vintage photography and painting, bringing a contemporary edge to old images. Sarah’s work explores the concept of memory and uses photographs as connection points for a viewer’s memory, aiding the viewer to feel a sense of nostalgia to an image or place. She is interested in the nature of memory and the way photographs can act as trigger points for a viewer’s memory. Using photography and paint, Martin blurs the lines between real and imagined.

Artist Biography

A contemporary artist with a studio practice that spans over 20 years, Sarah Martin studied Fine Arts at York University, Canada and immediately began representation at reputable galleries within Canada. As well as being collected by clients all over North America, her art has been featured extensively in HGTV design shows and is in many collections including The Hythe Resort, Vail; Sunshine Resort, Banff; Melrose Hotel, Washington DC; Hard Rock Hotel, Atlanta and the Ontario Archives, Canada to name a few.

2023
gouache on paper
18.75 x 15.5 in

Value: $2100
Starting Bid: $1050

Artist Statement

Murphy works with gouache to create flat, observational paintings. Within this medium, she explores the modern urban environment through the lens of the flaneur, creating a catalogue of paintings that investigates the temporality inherent in a city. Murphy is interested in archiving and cataloguing moments that may be overlooked or simply unseen. Her paintings act as a permanent record of a memory, a place, a walk or storefront that would otherwise fade with time.

Artist Biography

Caitlyn Murphy is a Toronto based artist working between painting and illustration. She has recently exhibited at Dianna Witte, Toronto, ON; Brackett Creek Exhibitions, Bozeman, MT; Tchotchke Gallery, New York City, NY; Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK; Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, ON; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA and Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University and a Bachelor of Design from OCAD University. Her work has been supported by grants provided by the Canada Council of the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.

2020
oil over acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 in

Value: $5000
Starting Bid: $2500

Artist Statement

This painting depicts a road trip during the pandemic where the artist drove home from Vancouver to Barrie. Seeing a road sign directing cars to Pickle Lake, Nelson thought it was a funny name for a lake and expressed a sentiment hoping to visit it in person one day.

Artist Biography

Chris Nelson is a self-taught mixed media artist based in Barrie, Ontario. His practice is rooted in intuitive exploration, material experimentation, and emotional expression. Working with acrylic paint, pastels, charcoal, sand, pencils, and markers, Nelson creates layered surfaces rich in texture and movement.

His work is informed by expressionism and abstraction, allowing instinct and spontaneity to guide each composition rather than predetermined structure. Themes of childhood nostalgia and memory play a significant role, as Nelson draws from personal experience and the emotional imprint of early environments. Natural forms and shifting moods often emerge through abstract gestures and color relationships.

2019
chromogenis photograph
7 of 25 30 x 30 in

Value: $4300
Starting Bid: $2150

Artist Statement

Maureen O’Connor is a fine art photographer living in Toronto and is a graduate of OCAD U. O’Connor’s artistic practice is lens based traditional photography and Maureen herself is a life-long animal lover. The photographs from The Threshold Series are produced with the cooperation of local sanctuaries, many of these animals from the series are rescues from fur farms and others are non-releasable wildlife.

Artist Biography

The animals photographed in this series were brought and photographed onsite in the location seen in these photographs. By photographing Canadian animals in abandoned and crumbling domestic architecture, Maureen O’Connor raises questions about how nature and the built environment intersect.

She sees these spaces as transformative, evoking memory and showing the beauty and fragility of the animals and the architecture. While the juxtaposition may appear odd, the images convey a sense of calm and quiet tension.

We are invited to cross the threshold and imagine new narratives where the natural world and the domestic world meet, and consider how this informs our identity in a country defined by both its wild landscape and its orderly cities.

2025
pulp painting
5.5 x 8.5 in

Value: $1200
Starting Bid: $600

Artist Statement

Inspired by Paul Sérusier’s Sous-Bois (Le Huelgoat), this pulp painting extends the forest beyond the original frame, transforming its colour, atmosphere, and forms into a tactile contemporary landscape.

Artist Biography

R.O.I Olou’s work transforms experience into living, tactile archives, treating time as a system, and creative practice as something that can be built, tested, and continually reconfigured.

2022
reclaimed knitted objects and porcelain figurine
10 x 10 x 20 in

Value: $1100
Starting Bid: $700

Artist Statement

Part of Price’s ENTANGLEMENT series, this sculpture is made from discarded and found textiles to acknowledge how all things are part of the same material cycle where objects become land and land effects human existence.

Artist Biography

Grateful to live on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, which includes the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Pottawatomi Nations, Dr. Jill Price is an artist / scholar of German, Scottish, Welsh, and unknown Ashkenazi descent. Price earned a BFA and B.Ed. at Western University and a MFA at OCADU where she received a 2016 SSHRC research grant, the 2017 Michael Smith Foreign Study Bursary, and the 2017 Research and Writing Award for her thesis Land as Archive: A Collection of Seen and Unseen Shadows, which investigated the environmental, social, and psychological impacts of fast fashion. This led to Price receiving the 2018-2019 Alfred Bader Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities and Faculty of Arts and Science Dean’s Award for Environmental Justice upon her entry into a SSHRC funded PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Here she developed an UN/making Methodology that proposes how creatives can help usher in perspectives and gestures of care and repair that resist anthropocenic values and systems.

Deeply inspired by new materialism as well as artistic practices utilized during the dematerialism movement of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Price continues to work at the intersection of art, ecology, ethics, and aesthetics. Employing walking, drawing, writing and scientific research, Price’s interdisciplinary practice sets out to create empathy for living bodies of Land and Water negatively impacted as a result of the mass production and discard of “things”. In turn, Price utilizes waste materials to point to the interconnectivity of human and more-than-human worlds.

2021
acrylic and pouring medium on linen
40 x 30

Value: $2800
Starting Bid: $1400

Artist Statement

Read works via processes of improvisation and spontaneous abstract mark making to visualize processes of wind, light and water. The great oceans and rivers, seen while traveling throughout polar regions, have inspired her recent work.

Artist Biography

Janet Read is a painter, musician, poet, music educator, and editor whose childhood was spent near Lake Simcoe. Read seeks the water’s edge as inspiration and solace. Philosophy and poetry inform her art practice as well as travel through polar regions and the south shore of the St. Lawrence in Quebec. She lives near Kempenfeldt Bay in Innisfil, which provides an endless immersion in light and atmosphere as part of Ontario’s “fifth” great lake, Lake Simcoe.

Three trips to the Canadian and Greenlandic high arctic have produced an ongoing body of work relating to the sea/landscape of these regions. Read’s settler roots go back to the Ottawa Valley Irish, Belfast, and County Wexford in Ireland: explaining a fondness for fiddle music, poetry, and the sea. Read’s Graduate philosophy and education at the University of Toronto, plus art studies at York and OCADU inform her practice of large-scale paintings, book works, and works on duralar. She has exhibited in commercial and public galleries including the Robert McLaughlin, Varley, Niagara Pumphouse, and Art Gallery of Peterborough. Works are collected in hospital, public and private collections, including RVH in Barrie, Town of Markham, Whitby Station Gallery, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Sisters of St. John the Divine, and the Royal Bank. Art teaching experience includes residential retreats, as well as art workshops with the Whitby Station Gallery, Varley Art Gallery as well as several art societies. The role of metaphor in abstract art with reference to Paul Ricoeur and Merleau-Ponty inspired her MA thesis.

2023
pigment ink on cotton rag paper
ed. AP 1
23 x 20 in

Value: $650
Starting Bid: $325

Artist Statement

Drawing from auction catalogues, social media, advertising, and art-historical references, Rideout’s work explores how systems of visibility shape meaning and desire. Rideout often positions painting as both witness and participant in economies of spectacle, collecting, and prestige.

Artist Biography

Brian Rideout is an artist whose painting practice examines the circulation of images, value, and power within contemporary culture. Through layered compositions and critical appropriation, his work reflects on the institutions and narratives that frame cultural value in the twenty-first century art world. Rideout’s work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally and is held in private, corporate and institutional collections, including RBC, TD Bank and National Bank of Canada. He has produced commissioned work for GUBI and Harper’s Bazaar France, and his practice has been featured in NUVO magazine, Wallpaper*, It’s Nice That, EL PAÍS ICON, House & Home and other publications.

2025
image transfer on cotton (linen)
ed. 1 of 5
30 x 37 in

Value: $1200
Starting Bid: $600

Artist Statement

Exploring how lived experiences feel as though they transcend time, Rodriguez has been building a photographic archive of memories that have left impressions on him throughout the last decade; such as his family playing by the shoreline as the sun sets in Costa del Sol, El Salvador.

Artist Biography

Joel Rodriguez is a documentary photographer and visual artist whose practice explores memory through autobiographical imagery. Working between photography and textile-based processes, he is interested in how acts of making can also become acts of remembering.

His work often begins with images drawn from a personal archive, moments with family, friends, and places that continue to linger long after they have passed. Through image-making, he seeks to translate these experiences into tactile objects that hold memory in physical form.

In recent years, textile processes have become central to his practice. Through embroidery, weaving, and image transfer, he reworks photographs into textured surfaces rather than fixed documents. Thread functions as both intervention and repair, allowing him to physically engage with images that carry personal histories.

2021
acrylic and pouring medium on linen
40 x 30

Value: $2800
Starting Bid: $1400

Artist Statement

Salimi’s drawing practice is an act of presence: following leaves, branches, and their changing forms, she stays with the visible moment, tracing the quiet poetry of existence.

Artist Biography

Niloufar Salimi (b. 1982, Shiraz, Iran) is an artist based in Toronto whose practice explores memory, language, place, and the quiet ways we remain connected to the natural world. Working primarily through drawing, she often begins with close observation of plants and everyday forms, considering how they can hold personal and cultural histories, experiences of migration, and memories of place. Her work moves between intimate observation and broader questions of belonging, survival, and the relationship between humans and their environments.

2021
monotype
ed. 1 of 1
13.75 x 20.6 in

Value: $700
Starting Bid: $350

Artist Statement

Siu’s work is influenced by both Western and East Asian art historical canons. Alongside more contemporary pop sources such as gay-themed Japanese romance manga (Yaoi), video games and supernatural horror. By making connections between seemingly disparate cross-cultural threads, Siu aims to express a contemporary sense of Queer imagination.

Artist Biography

Ron Siu is an artist currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Siu’s practice incorporates painting, printmaking and animation elements to explore themes around Queer desire and fantasy.

2026
cyanotype and watercolour paint on watercolour paper
8 x 11.5 (unframed)

Value: $2500
Starting: $1250

Artist Statement

Medicine Prints are a series of cyanotypes that are an exploration of materiality and process that express relation to the land. They are records of the land and the histories of these living materials.

Artist Biography

Michelle Sound is a Cree and Métis artist and mother. She is a member of Wapsewsipi Swan River First Nation in Treaty 8 Territory. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, and a Master of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University Art + Design. Public art pieces include a printed Transit mural (City of Edmonton) and a printed mural at the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France. Sound has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is held in the collections of the Indigenous Art Centre (CIRNAC), Forge Project NY, the McMichael Collection and the National Gallery of Canada. Sound has been longlisted for the Lind Photography Prize(2024) and the Sobey Art Award (2025).

2021
monotype
ed. 1 of 1
13.75 x 20.6 in

Value: $700
Starting Bid: $350

Artist Statement

Grounded by a foundation in drawing, and a close-up view point, Sprague’s work employs joyous use of pigment, and bold, expressive mark-making, in figurative, representational, and abstract works. Still, deep, and serenely beautiful. Sprague believes that there is something about ponds that lead to quiet reflection and calm.

Artist Biography

Born in Hamilton and residing in Midland Ontario, Sprague’s lifetime preoccupation with the Visual Arts is a happy affliction that continues to evolve through continued education, experimentation with multiple media, and interaction with a number of arts organizations.

Sprague participates in many platforms to showcase her artwork, including juried and non-juried shows, public and private installations, residencies, and artist exchanges; creating for the pleasure of creating, for aesthetics, and also for the platform visual arts is afforded as a voice to address important issues. Her artwork can be found in Canadian public Installations and private Collections, and select galleries. It is also available for viewing and purchase through Ontario organizations such as the Barrie Art Club, Quest Art in Midland, and the Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts in Collingwood, with more available artwork may be viewed on the artist’s website.

2026
inkjet print and birch bark
ed. 1 of 1
18.5 x 24 in

Value: $650
Starting Bid: $325

Artist Statement

This image is pulled from Steels’ Within a Surface series, which explores time as a non-linear experience bridged by a shared world, with photography as a tool building that bridge.

Artist Biography

Molly Steels is a Toronto-based artist originally from Bradford, Ontario. By world building in tandem with family archives, Steels blends the past into the present. Here she creates surreal conceptual spaces using photography as a tool for connection across time. Through experiments with materiality, collage and the treatment of images as objects she aims to visualize the intangible qualities of grief, longing, community and memory with an emphasis on the nuance within these experiences.

2026
acrylic on wood panel
40 x 40 in

Value: $6300
Starting Bid: $3150

Artist Statement

Thomas’ paintings are about spaces of experience and fragility. She uses the language of abstraction frequently across her works and is drawn to its unique capacity for ambiguity and complexity.

Artist Biography

Frances Thomas, a Canadian painter and printmaker, was born in Parry Sound, Ontario. She received both her BFA and MFA from York University, Toronto, Ontario, and is the recipient of the Samuel Sarick Purchase Award for excellence in thesis work. She has participated in residencies in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland and Triangle Arts in Brooklyn, New York and in 2016 spent three months in Berlin on a self-directed residency. Her paintings were recently featured in a travelling exhibition from 2024 to 2026 titled “Ron Shuebrook and Frances Thomas: In Conversation” with stops in four public galleries together with a print catalogue. Thomas lives and has her studio in Barrie, ON. She has exhibited in Barrie, Montreal, Edmonton, Toronto, Woodstock and New York and her work is in the permanent collections of the MacLaren Art Centre, Bank of Montreal, York University, Woodstock Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Guelph.

2025
oil on canvas
6 x 36 in

Value: $5000
Starting Bid: $2500

Artist Statement

Grounded by a foundation in drawing, and a close-up view point, Sprague’s work employs joyous use of pigment, and bold, expressive mark-making, in figurative, representational, and abstract works. Still, deep, and serenely beautiful. Sprague believes that there is something about ponds that lead to quiet reflection and calm.

Artist Biography

Born in Hamilton and residing in Midland Ontario, Sprague’s lifetime preoccupation with the Visual Arts is a happy affliction that continues to evolve through continued education, experimentation with multiple media, and interaction with a number of arts organizations.

Sprague participates in many platforms to showcase her artwork, including juried and non-juried shows, public and private installations, residencies, and artist exchanges; creating for the pleasure of creating, for aesthetics, and also for the platform visual arts is afforded as a voice to address important issues. Her artwork can be found in Canadian public Installations and private Collections, and select galleries. It is also available for viewing and purchase through Ontario organizations such as the Barrie Art Club, Quest Art in Midland, and the Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts in Collingwood, with more available artwork may be viewed on the artist’s website.

2020
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in

Value: $4300
Starting Bid: $2150

Artist Statement

Isolation could be read as Eye-Soleil-Schön mixing three languages (English, French and German) into the perceived hidden rays of light. INAUDIBLE is part of a series Teichert created responding to the lockdown period. The artist’s own perspective as painter led her to explore the meaning of isolation.

Artist Biography

Multidisciplinary artist Alice Teichert, RCA studied music, philosophy, visual poetry, visual arts, and printmaking in Belgium and France. She works from her studio in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. Since 1989, she has built an international career with over 40 solo exhibitions in France, Canada, Switzerland, Germany and Australia.

Known for her bold colours and layered transparencies interspersed with script-like line drawings, Teichert works across a variety of mediums including print, painting, drawing, sculpture, site-specific installation, and video. Her pieces are held in many corporate, private, and public collections including the MacLaren Art Centre, Global Affairs Canada, the Musée de la Ville de Valence, France, and the Museums quartier of Lübeck, Germany.

2025
watercolour on Arches paper mounted on board
11 x 11 in

Value: $300
Starting Bid: $150

Artist Statement

Based on paddling shorelines and extensive research into local flora and fauna, Van Geest uses bilateral symmetry to suggest interconnectivity and fluidity between the human/animal body and the natural world.

Artist Biography

Pearl Van Geest (she/her/they) is a queer artist, curator, writer and arts educator, practicing since graduating from OCAD in 1996. She also holds a BSc, MFA and BEd. She has exhibited her work across Canada, and has work in collections in the United States and Europe. Her work has been supported through Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council grants and is part of the national Art Bank collection. She was short-listed for the RBC Painting prize in 2003, was a BAIR at the Banff Centre in 2010 and 2014, and was the recipient of the Canadian Art Foundation’s Art Writing Prize in 2015. She is a founding member of the Throbbing Rose Collective and exhibits with Red Head Gallery in Toronto. Along with James Fowler, she curates Queer Up North, a project that begins with an artist residency and includes a series of exhibitions and symposiums. It is in its second year. She is part of the Broken Forests International group of artists and has exhibited with them in Brazil, Poland and Columbia. Her work embraces hybridity, ideas of excess and of queering ecologies to move past established binaries.

2015
acrylic paint on acrylic glass/wood
18.5 x 28.5 in

Value: $650
Starting Bid: $325

Artist Statement

A visual explorer, van den Enden searches for new visual vocabulary within existing materials. This painting on carved plexiglass is a declaration of love to water and specifically, to Ontario lakes.

Artist Biography

Katja started to share her work in public and private galleries in 2001. Among these galleries are the Latcham Art Centre (solo exhibition 2020), the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Gallery 1313, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Aurora Cultural Centre, McKay Art Centre, Propeller Gallery, John B. Aird Gallery. She has exhibited at the Artist Project from 2013 – 2019.

Katja is a four-time grant recipient from the Ontario Art Council (2016/2017/2018/2020). In 2018 she was awarded a residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Katja has received awards from the Orillia Museum of Art and History, the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Latcham Art Centre.

In 2022 Katja moved to France where she had her first solo exhibition at the Chapel St. Michel in Le Dorat in 2024.

2026
acrylic
12 x 9 in

Value: $2000
Starting Bid: $1000

Artist Statement

A series of repeated gestures yields intricate surfaces in Erin Vincent’s sculptural work – they are actions specific to a chosen material, whether tissue paper, tongue depressors, pins, or other massed-produced materials easily sourced in a global marketplace. This work is a buildup of one color using pre-mixed abandoned paints, sourced from the clearance shelves of hardware stores. The object ubiquity of the individual elements, which one might expect to be emphasized by sheer volume employed, is instead overwhelmed by a surge of “likeness” that transforms as an animate continuum, in some measure organic in feel, the result of a kind of reverse-manufacturing.

Artist Biography

Erin Vincent is a Toronto-based sculptor whose work investigates materiality, labour, and perception. She works intuitively across multiple projects, using mass-produced and overlooked materials such as bristles, straight pins, tar paper, and plastic sheeting. Through slow, repetitive processes, she transforms everyday objects into immersive sculptural surfaces that challenge assumptions about value, utility, and form. Vincent’s practice emphasizes tactile engagement and accessibility, often inviting viewers to interact with the work in unexpected ways. As a sculpture and installation instructor, she brings her process-driven approach to the classroom, encouraging material experimentation and conceptual risk. Her work creates spaces that are accessible, empathetic, and physically engaging; offering viewers an invitation to slow down and look closely.

This piece was generously donated by  Lydia Olah.

n.d.
watercolour
19 x 37.25 in

Value: $1000
Starting Bid: $500

Artist Biography

Suzanne Voisard was born in Montreal in 1947. At a very young age, she showed a certain taste for drawing and painting. For three years (1968-70), she studied drawing, enamels on copper and oil painting, which became her main medium for more than twenty years. It was a period of research and experimentation in various styles. In 1990, she discovered watercolor and adopted it immediately. 

2024
watercolour on paper
13 x 16 in

Value: $600
Starting Bid: $300

Artist Statement

Wingfelder set out to paint one morning in May along the North Shore Trail on Kempenfelt Bay with my little dog Oscar. Springtime on the North Shore Trail, Barrie conveys the tranquil beauty of new life emerging in Spring.

Artist Biography

Wendy Wingfelder is interested in observing and exploring the natural and domestic worlds and working with memory in her art practice. Her love of the outdoors often leads her to plein air painting, in watercolour or oil, where she strives to portray the feeling of a place and time through the fleeting interplay of light and color. Wendy paints from both her home studio in Barrie and family cottage in Honey Harbour, Georgian Bay. She finds inspiration in everyday life and her connection to landscapes she has known for decades and shared with many generations of her family.

2026
watercolour on paper
12 x 9 in

Value: $1800
Starting Bid: $900

Artist Statement

Kate Wilson‘s work is inspired by cosmic patterns and organic rhythms, reflecting a fleeting yet infinite harmony, blurring the line between the earthly and the ethereal.

Artist Biography

Kate Wilson is a Toronto-based visual artist whose practice moves fluidly between site-specific, large-scale wall-drawing installations, painting, and digital applications. Wilson has exhibited nationally and internationally and received awards from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts, including the Canada Council for the Arts International Residencies (Paris).

For over 35 years, her work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada and internationally. She has exhibited at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, France; the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts in Buffalo, New York; Museum London, London, Ontario; Doris McCarthy Gallery: University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia; Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Markham, Ontario; the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario; Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta; and the Nickle Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, and as part of Lorna Mills’ Ways of Something at The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Recent exhibitions include Celestial Botanics at General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto.

She is represented in collections including the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Kelowna Art Gallery, Museum London, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Doris McCarthy Art Gallery, the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, BMO Financial Group, and TD Canada Trust.

Kate Wilson is represented by General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto.

2024
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in (unframed)

Value: $3850
Starting Bid: $1925

Artist Statement

In A Legacy of Botany I, the tangerine is peeled open, as if sunbathing. It resembles a flower, painted in a shade of blue similar to the chemical reaction that makes cyanotype prints.

Artist Biography

Lan “Florence” Yee is a visual artist and cultural worker based in Tkaronto/Toronto & Tiohtià :ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. Lan’s work has been exhibited at the Hive Centre for Contemporary Art in Shanghai (2025), Art Museum at The University of Toronto (2024), the Textile Museum of Canada (2023-24), the Darling Foundry (2022), the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), and the Gardiner Museum (2019), among others. They obtained a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from OCAD U as a Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC scholar. They are a recipient of the William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists (2023). Lan is a member of Collective Collective, a project between eight visual arts collectives with majority-racialized members as a response to the systemic racism and exploitative labour conditions in the arts. Lan writes and organizes as a member of JIA Foundation, fostering Chinatown’s sustainability as a living neighbourhood with a deeply-rooted cultural heritage.