A well-known jewelry designer, Melissa Pluch has never forgotten her passion for painting.Influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau era art, Melissa is drawn to the use of elegant line and shape taken from the natural world. "My works are influenced by objects of everyday life such as vases, bowls and furniture. I find the representation of those simple everyday sculptural elements very beautiful."

While living in Japan, Melissa began to admire the Japanese design sensibility noting that, "Its flowing delicacy and visual balance is what I am always trying to achieve."

Melissa attended Ryerson University where she studied film and ph...

Born and raised a northern boy, Ken Roko grew up exploring the beauty of cities in Canada. "I wanted to be a painter from a young age and have been following my 'Yellow Brick Road' to fulfill that lifelong dream.” Ken traveled that road throughout Europe and Asia in search of his artistic voice. His love for all fine art has led him to explore the various styles and colors of artists throughout time. Today, working in various media, including both traditional and digital resources, it has become natural for Ken to draw an evolution from the spark of an idea into beautiful imagery. At the start of a project, he tends to focus on the environment itself. From there his pie...

Heather Johnston's art is inspired by the beauty of the natural world and the mysteries of life. 

Heather uses digital, photographic and painterly applications to further construct her ideas and broaden the visual experience. She is drawn to both the mystery of the photographic language and the textural quality of a painterly surface. Heather works with medium format transparency film and high resolution 35mm digital cameras, using software applications to initially composite subjects into worlds of multiple photographs and...