About Brent McGillivray  

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This year’s collection includes Neon inspired art and minimalistic seascapes. My style looks like a clean modern painting or graphic illustration rather than a photograph-smooth gradients, simplified shapes and crisp lines create a peaceful, contemporary aesthetic. My work explores the tension between stillness and electricity. The ocean becomes a place of pause: expansive, calm, and meditative. In contrast, neon introduces a cinematic energy-fragments of urban life. Together, these elements create visual dialogue between nature and modernity. Rather than documenting places literally, my paintings aim to capture fleeting moods-the feeling of standing alone, the hum of the city or the nostalgia . Each piece invites viewers to slow down, linger and project their own memories into the space between what is seen and what is implied. Each piece uses colour, atmosphere, and negative space to evoke memory, solitude and movement. 

 

  Brent is a graduate of:

 Architectural Technology at Algonquin College, Ottawa 

 Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto

 Printmaking at the Alberta College of Art, Calgary 

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          About Maureen Bennett

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Utilizing concepts of design learned from a history with stained glass Maureen’s artwork shows cases her ability to capture mountain scenery through a unique blend of colours and abstract techniques that evoke a sense of of serenity and grandeur. The abstract style allows the viewer to appreciate he majestic beauty of the mountains while also interpreting the artwork in their own way.

 

This year's artwork showcases Canadian Mountains in a near-symmetrical composition across the horizontal centreline. with a crisp reflection that doubles the visual impact and gives the pieces a calm, mirror like balance. Maureen aims to capture the energy and movement of the natural world by blurring the lines between abstraction and representation.

 

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