Wednesday Artists in Residence

 – Margie Davidson & Friends –

As a quilt artist and surface designer, Margie Davidson’s love of colour is joyfully expressed through the variety of techniques she uses to add colour to cloth. She enjoys painting, sunprinting, and blockprinting as well as cooking up colour with natural dyes. Margie takes great pleasure incorporating this coloured cloth into her artwork, along with some stitching by hand or machine. Her award-winning quilts have been exhibited in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States.

Margie is usually  joined by one or more of her fellow artists Juanita Kehler, Bonnie Lefebre, Kathleen Drinkwater and Darrell Giraldeau.

 – Susan Schaefer –   

A professional artist for the past 17 years, Susan Schaefer’s style is recognized as bright, bold and fun. She has organized and attended workshops by some of Canada’s best artists. Susan is happy to share her knowledge, tricks, tips and passion for acrylic painting.

 

painting of woman sitting on bench looking out at the shore by Susan Schaefer

 – Susan White –

Susan White creates her paintings in a photo-realistic style using the medium of soft pastel. She finds the depth, vibrancy of colour and the ability to render small details with pastels a perfect fit. Her favourite subjects to depict are wildlife and botanicals.

painting of woman sitting on bench looking out at the shore by Susan Schaefer