Celebrating Women Artists: Championing women artists since 1993

"Change and transformation have been at the heart of my creative work. My projects have addressed environmental concerns, climate change, multicultural issues, and community despair."

Barbara Amos is a multidisciplinary artist living and working out of Calgary, Alberta and has been a rostered artist with Abbozzo Gallery for over a decade. 

Combining loom weaving and basketry materials and techniques, Charlotte Blake's work explores ways of pushing dimensionality on a typically two dimensional medium.

“What I try to capture is intimacy,” says Katharine, “and the qualities of the whole ocean environment that captivate us, sometimes unconsciously; or inspire awe in ways we can barely put into words. The sparkles created from sunlight on the water’s surface; the amazing force behind a wave; the little windows of translucency that flash within it for a split second just before it crashes to the shore.”

Lola Erhart's work explores the world that surrounds her... exposing a permanent dialogue and conflict between figuration and abstraction. The rational construction of the drawing and the emotionality of the brushstroke.

"Human Potential: As the body grows and the mind develops, our lives unfold.  With love, nurturing and support we flourish and strive to reach our full potential."

Elaine Goble's professional career has straddled two artistic worlds. She has a very successful and respected career as an egg tempera painter whose works are featured in numerous private and corporate collections, and as a contemporary Canadian War Artist.

For over a decade, Elaine worked on a series of 28 large-scale graphite drawings of veterans, Holocaust survivors and peace-keepers which now resides in the permanent collection of the Canadian War Museum. As well, her artistic response to the tragedy of the events of 9/11 in New York City was a ‘cri de coeur’ in oil and was featured in the Grand Hall at the museum from 2007 to 2009. Her work was exhibited at the McMichael Canadian Collection in Kleinburg, the Canadian War Museum, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

Kelly Grace's painting might be described as close-up views of far away feelings. Appearing by turns like stills from classic film, anonymous Polaroids in found album, or half-remembered flashes of a recurring dream, they wander the misty spaces between memory and fiction.

Alana finds inspiration in the ordinary moments that often go unnoticed—the clink of glasses during a cheerful gathering, the warmth of a morning routine, or the shared laughter of friends over a glass of wine.

Celia is an abstract artist. She began painting in search of self expression and more profound connection with both life and herself.

Celia loves working in large scale and using the motions of her body to direct her work compositionally and apply her mark making. She often uses found objects or things within reach to her as tools to apply paint. Celia loves using limbs of her body to apply mediums to the canvas as well as other found objects. She finds that her environment and the objects in close proximity to her heavily influence her work.

Although Celia’s work is impacted compositionally by her tools, Celia is rarely inspired by tangible objects. She more frequently finds her art being influenced by internal feelings she experiences or emotional connections she holds with other humans. She often refers to her work as a visual journal. Celia is currently working full time as an artist from her studio in Toronto, Canada

Currently living in Barcelona, Delfina is working on several different projects of her own and with other artists, practicing with biomaterials, performance and painting, with nature being her main inspiration throughout.

Leslie Norgate is a painter working in Toronto, where she was born and raised. She lives in a vibrant old neighbourhood where there are dogs on every corner and where common sights seen in uncommon light abound.

"Whatever I wish to express, atmosphere is a constant in the conception of my works. I enjoy creating dramatic ambiences in which imaginary places and the real world merge, giving rise to different possibilities."

Marie Rioux was born in Montreal and studied visual art in Quebec City. Over the course of her career, she has worked alongside artists from various milieux in contemporary art.

She has developed an original manner of working and a body of art stamped with authenticity. At present she is continuing her artistic enquiries by giving tangible expression to the place in which she lives. Marie paints with oil on canvas.

Holly Stapleton's work aims to explore rituals of indulgence and full-presence. It casts warm light on mundane practices, engulfing them in renewal. It encourages the romantic act of noticing. Indulgence can be very simplistic if we are intentional about what we bring our awareness to. It can be easy to dissociate through the in-between moments, but they’re often the richest facets of our lived experience, if we fully embrace what it means to tune-in.

Jennifer Walton’s paintings capture the fragility of place in a rapidly changing global climate.

She was the inaugural winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Her paintings Conflagration, and Brush Fire, won the Juror's Choice Award at WADEM (World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine) Congress Art Show, 2017, Toronto. In 2007 she received an honourable mention from the Kingston Prize, Canada's National Portrait Competition. She has also been a recipient of grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Canada Council, the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec and the Toronto Arts Council. She has attended artist residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the International Painting Symposium in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec and the Pouch Cove Studio in Newfoundland. Her paintings hang in numerous public and private collections and have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across Canada and in the US and the UK.
Jennifer Walton's most recent solo exhibition Microcosm was on view at Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto (November 2021). She holds a BFA from Mount Allison University (Sackville, New Brunswick) and an MFA from Concordia University (Montreal). She lives and works in Toronto and shows with Abbozzo Gallery.