Christmas Market Featured Artists

Participating Artists & Vendors in our November 5th Christmas Market

Robyn Wood

Artistic inspiration began at an early age for Robyn Wood and has continued to be an intricate part of her life. She has always created art using a variety of different mediums.

Over the years Robyn has taken art courses at the University of Guelph and Cedar Ridge Creative Centre. Her work can be found in private collections, and it public places such as Anson Park Public School and the Ross Tilley Burn Center at Sunnybrook Hospital. Many pieces have also been donated to various fundraising events across the provence.

Robyn has always felt that art is good for your soul, a natural healer and a place of escape. If a picture can make a person ponder its meaning or bring enjoyment by looking at it, then she has accomplished her goal as an artist.

Angela Wood

Instagram: @xoxAngieCustomCreations

Etsy: @xoxAngieCreations

Angela Wood has always expressed herself in the for of art from a very young age. She uses creating & making as an escape from the world around her. Making things that are beautiful, help express her feelings or make you feel emotions is how she stays positive. Her art work can be found at Anson Park Public school, the fire hall in her neighbourhood and even a few private collections. Angela was an aspiring chef after graduating from George Brown College and was in a severe accident involving an explosion, resulting in her being caught on fire and suffering serve burns down both arms and her hands. After making this decision to step down from being a chef, she decided to use her passion of creating to start her own business in art, crafting and custom items, thus xoxAngie Custom Creations was born.

Claire Emond

One spiritual soul.WWGOWGA

Hand made jewelry, knitting crocheting scarves Hand crochet dish cloths ,home made apple butter home made healing salves.

Robin Polfuss - RoRo Art: Toys, Puppets & Fun!

I live in Cliffside Village, 6 years now, and I do many different forms of art: toy-making, illustration, puppetry and theatre! I’ve been creating my whole life; my inspiration is storytelling!

More about RoRo Art: facebook.com/roroart and random pictures & silly fun, insta & twit: @rorosock

Laurie Harrison Poirier

@Lauries_Craft_Classes

Facebook Page

Laurie Poirier is a Toronto Artisan who has been crafting in various forms since

childhood. As an adult, she began teaching paper crafting and through that found her

passion for teaching jewellery to all ages.

Laurie has taught children in schools to seniors in Church groups. Her classes range from

Jewellery 101 to more advanced Chainmaille and Wire working.

Laurie has been selling at craft shows since 2010 and teaching since 2012 at Michael's,

John Bead Outlet, Gem Expo, Craftandian, GoBoomerang, Scarborough Arts and her

own private home studio.

You can view Laurie's classes at www.facebook.com/lauriescraftclass and

www.instagram.com/lauries_craft_classes.

Rick Corcoran

rcnc60@gmail.com

After working 12 hr, 6 day work weeks for 42 years I finally have an opportunity to pursue some of my real passions: Photography, Pyrography and Wood Carving. My works include • ‘Wood Spirit’ carvings that are hung via jute twine (with hand whipped tails) – perfect for gardens, cottages and eclectic homes. • Pyrography [wood burning] hanging art pieces and canoe paddles with subject matter from landscape to signs. • Local photography. I love a good picture but I also love creative interpretations of the same. My photos convey feeling as much as subject matter. Most pictures are 8x10 and all are framed.

Karyn Cassar

Karyn Cassar is the entrepreneurial spirit behind

Tail Wags Helmet Covers, a company devoted to

encouraging children and adults to wear their

safety helmets. Karyn suffered a serious ski

accident but fortunately she was wearing her ski

helmet. The helmet saved her life! One goal of her

company is to help prevent unnecessary injuries

and it is her passion for safety awareness along

with her imaginative flair that are the key

ingredients for Tail Wags’ success.

My helmet covers are designed to make it FUN to wear a safety helmet. They fit ALL makes and models of bike, ski/snowboard and skating helmets. There's even a slit at the back of the cover for easy ski goggle access. Handcrafted and hand washable. These helmet covers are fabulous gifts for people of all ages.

Make sure you all stop by her location early as all of Karyn's helmet covers will be sold for $10 each!!!!

Janet Treble

Janet loves working with acrylics and alcohol inks. She likes to create beautiful abstracts on vases, and canvases.

Wendy Marsh - Labour of Love

Wendy Marsh loves to get creative and it shows in her beautiful work. She love to create colourful lap and baby quilts, hair scrunchies, various styles of bags, tooth pillows, table runners and placemats, as well as fabric ornaments.

Christin Shmanka

Christin's mother was very involved in the arts and she began to dabble in drawing and painting when she was very young. Christin took painting thought high school and into university, exploring various painting mediums, including acrylic and many pen and ink drawings. She happened upon watercolour when admiring the works of others, and pursued "playing" with various techniques in realistic and abstract pieces. She loves to include ink as part of the design.

While watercolour is a somewhat unforgiving medium, it also allows great exploration: of textures when combined with salt, plastic wrap, and the like, and of colours blending and reacting to each other in lovely ways. It is not always predictable and thus fosters creativity to make a thing of beauty following the shapes suggested by the initial pass.

Stephanie Briley

~~ Stephanie Briley Brand ~~ Watercolour Artist ~~

For the past ten years, watercolour has become Stephanie's serendipitous and addictive pastime. She is attracted to the softness and transparency of the paint.

The energy of this medium is magical, as it often does the work itself. It is taking her years to understand the mystery of watercolour and the many reactions and techniques.

Stephanie grew up in the Scarborough Bluffs, attending Fairmount P.S. and R. H. King Collegiate. After raising her family and retiring from teaching, she returned to this special neighbourhood and continue to enjoy the challenge of watercolour, taking a variety of local art classes, and painting her travels and gardens.

Louise Black

Facebook: Bearly Yours

Louise Black has love for all things paper. She is a card maker/paper crafter who enjoys creating handmade greeting cards and other paper crafts in her little craft nook here in Cliffside. Whether it be a birthday card, a Christmas tag, a treat box or a framed paper picture, I love seeing what I can make with paper, ink and stamps. You can view items she has made on my Facebook page

Bearly Yours | Toronto ON | Facebook

Jessie Gordon

Instagram: @phernethistle

Jessie is a retired TDSB Art Teacher, working in Photography, Visual Arts, Ceramics, & Digital Media.

She is a former Ceramics Instructor at OCAD, and is also a past President of the Don Valley Art Club.

Jessie is currently working in Printmaking: Linocut and silkscreen.

Dagmar Klopf

Art takes Dagmar on many adventures. College and intuitive art allowed Dagmar to learn how to use many different materials and different mediums to create beautiful art. All the different materials and mediums give visual life to all my experiments.

Naiomy & Daniel Ekanayake

Women, wife and mom of 3 children, ages 15 year-old twin sons and 3-year-old daughter.

Our website is gospelthrougharts.com, Instagram naiomy2796, YouTubechannel Daily devotionals by Naiomy Ekanayake.

Sons YouTube channels Kids art by Daniel E and Jason Ekanayake.

Motivator of parents who have children with disabilities and have a history of making Inclusion work.

Author of a published children’s book called Little is Enough sold on amazon

Encourager and motivator of others and draws strength from Believing in Christ Jesus.

Sunday School Teacher, Bible Study Teacher and worship Choir member.

My name is Daniel Ekanayake I am a student at Woburn High school, I am 15 years old, I first started painting March 2020 as I attended a painting class by TLC Arts and Skills held at our church.

I have tried so many paintings and I have now more than 250 pieces of paintings, I use acrylic paints.

I usually express my feelings and message in my paintings and it has encouraged many, as I have mild autism but it doesn't stop me expressing my thoughts and ideas to the world.

I have a Facebook page created by the name of Bible stories and I have a blog with some of my paintings on bloggers.com under Paintings for Encouragement by Daniel Ekanayake and I have a YouTube channel under my name which has some videos of me painting called Kids Art by Daniel E.

I have entered to a Easter seal contest in April 2020 and won the first place in the age 11-14 category with a prize.

I also was selected in 2021 for the TDSB Toronto D12 winner for the category B-3 visual non credit for the painting I submitted called "My COVID song" painting.

In 2020 I published a book called Encouragement Scripture paintings by Daniel Ekanayake.

I am a musician, Painter and an Artist.

Catharine Donahue

Catharine's Etsy Page

“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul” - Somerset Maugham .

The above statement describes both Catherine's love and requirement to have art in her life. Without it, life turns gray. Discovering her love for painting has been a great gift in her life. It has seen her through some dark times….. the power of art !

Margot Brighton

Artist Name: Margot Brighton

Style of Art: Realism, Semi-Realism, Abstract, Feminist Artwork

Margot Brighton is a multi-disciplinary artist from Scarborough with a background in Visual and Performing Arts. They are currently attending OCAD University for Drawing & Painting. In their practice they like to experiment with a wide range of colours, topics, and styles. They work as a freelance artist, taking commissions from clients all across Canada.

Jacki McFarlane

Jacki has a background as a seamstress in film and theater production.

A person who works with their hands is a labourer. A person who works with their hands and head is a craftsperson, but a person who works with their hands, head and heart is an artist.

Jacki is the happiest with a power tool in her hand.

Doug & Eileen Simpson

- River Rock Jewellery

Instagram: River Rock Jewellery

Website: https://www.riverrockjewellery.com/

Email: riverrockjewellery@hotmail.com

As an outlet for his interest in geology, Doug has created a line of jewellery. This evolved from his walks along the shorelines of Lake Ontario, most predominantly the Scarborough Bluffs, where he has collected many specimens of stones, polished by time and nature. These have provided the inspiration for his one-of-a-kind items.

It gives him great satisfaction to revive the natural beauty of these stones, and provide a stage upon which they can shine.

Doug has always had an interest in reintroducing items from the past, including buying, repairing and selling antiques and collectibles, and appreciate the craftsmanship and beauty of what has gone before.

Doug and his wife Eileen are very excited to be taking part in An Artist Lives Here Event and cannot wait to show you what they have created.

Tiffany Barnett - Birchcliff Knots

Instagram: @birchcliffknots

Website: http//www.mandelisart.com

Tiffany Barnett is a single mom who works a day job in healthcare and needed an outlet for some self care and “me time” during the pandemic.

Tiffany has always been a maker and enjoyed the process of creating with her hands, but she found a new meditative groove when making macrame and mixed fibre wall hangings and found a new love with fibre art in general.

Although the intention started as just making art for herself, family and friends, Tiffany quickly found herself branching out and began doing custom pieces for others, and Birchcliff Knots was born last summer.

Tiffany is very excited to participate in an Artist Lives Here, and looks forward to meeting everyone and showcasing her “hobby”.

Robin Paisley

https://craftedteacompany.ca

Blissfully satisfying whole leaf & house-made tea blends

Tea has been central to my life since childhood. My Mom was always keen to share a cup of tea with me. I think she knew I’d sit down for a few minutes and she’d learn more about my day. Tea was the currency of conversation. As I got older, tea became fuel to keep me going well into the night as I started my career as an Event Planner. What I hadn’t yet realized was that I would continue to turn to tea to ‘solve my world’s problems’. Whether that be that much needed ‘pick me up’, a blend to calm me down after a long day, or one to settle my stomach or help me sleep. I turn to tea. It’s like good friends or a good book – always there for you.

My blends are an evolution of my interests, conversations and connections made with people over tea. And of course – requests! Everyone has a tea story and I love exploring how people relate to tea and what they love. The blends you’ll find here are a mix of my personal ‘crafted’ blends as well as some I’ve found and just have to share.

Join me as I share my growing passion and love of all things tea.

Elaine Austria

-Sam & Cent Candles

Facebook - Sam & Cent Candles

Our candles are made from organic soy wax and are dye free. Each candle is carefully poured in a reusable jar/tin to ensure optimal quality.

Social Media: Facebook: Sam and cent candles

Meagan MacFarlane

Facebook

Meet the person behind the hook.

Meagan is 20 years old and had been crocheting since she was 10 years old and was taught be her grandma and Aunt's. Her favourite thing to crochet is stuffies. Meagan is from Highland Creek in Toronto and is currently living in East York. She is continuously learning and working on her skills in crocheting, knitting, painting, sewing and playing the clarinet. Meagan loves what she does and loves putting smiles on people faces.

Roxane DeLongo Campbell

Facebook

Roxane De Longo Campbell is a local certified makeup artist with over 23 years of experience in the beauty industry. Focusing over the years on makeup for weddings and special occasions, Roxane has recently discovered her love of face painting for children, transforming them into a powerful tiger or magical unicorn with the stroke of a brush!! Come out & experience her fun and creative Artwork!

Creations by Sera

Social media link:

Instagram: @creationsbysera | https://www.instagram.com/creationsbysera/

Creations by Sera is solely owned and operated by Sera in Scarborough. Before her small business became titled as "Creations by Sera", it was known as " SJ's Scrubs ” since the middle of 2016 which is when she first started selling her homemade customizable body scrubs to raise money for a school history trip that took place abroad.

Since the trip, she has been selling her customizable body scrubs on and off throughout the years and in 2020 during the peak of the pandemic, she decided to change the name of her small business to "Creations by Sera" since she realized she has so many more creations other than body scrubs to offer - which you can see on her Instagram page @creationsbysera as well as her website which will be coming soon.

Creations by Sera sells a variety of customizable and homemade products with love. The items include handmade beauty items such as body scrubs and lip scrubs; handmade jewellery such as earrings and bracelets; and handmade crafts such as bookmarks, cards, coasters, decor, magnets, and keychains. Depending on the time of year, there are many cute festive items for each season/holiday!