THE HIVE

Alan Robert Peachey immigrated from Ipswich Suffolk England in 1956.He is a McMaster graduate (1971) with a math and psychology degree. Accounting made him a living. Art and family gave him a life. Alan is self-taught with arts education through courses and workshops at Mohawk College (Walter Hickling), DVSA, Sheridan College, Centre 3 and Toronto Realist Atelier. He was an active member and volunteer with the Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton Arts Council, James Street North drawing group and You Me Gallery. He participated in the Big Picture show in the 80s and was part of the retrospective show at the AGH for Hamilton artists from 1950-2000. Photography, life drawing and painting was where his artistic passion started. He then progressed to printing and lithography where he could interpret his passions into print form. 

 

Fabio Gasbarri, born in Italy, Fabio came to Canada in the sixties. 

Almost immediately he enrolled in Saturday art class at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Hamilton, Ontario.  A. K Scott was the instructor at the time. Fabio successfully completed the Arts programme at the Central Technical School in Hamilton. Along with a sustained history of studio practice of nearly 50 years, Fabio has also acted as an instructor at The Dundas Valley School of Art, The Button Arts in Waterloo and The Cambridge Centre of the Arts. Fabio currently lives and works in Hamilton. 

 

John Edmond: Hailing from Hamilton, my fine arts background is from Central Secondary. I honed my skills in life drawing at the Three New Schools of Art in Toronto. My graphics are deeply inspired by my travels and photos I take along the way. I have worked at the Centre for 5 years, I work in woodcut, lino, intaglio, Lithograph. 

 

Kara Wille: I grew up in a house filled with creativity and the materials to craft almost anything.  Some of her earliest memories are of making potato prints with her mother. After a childhood and adolescence filled with drawing, painting and fearless expression, I went to art school. This quickly put an end to my creative life for a few decades. Many, MANY years later, and thanks largely to the opportunities offered by Centre3, I rediscovered the intense pleasure of printmaking, a medium that had always appealed to my Germanic appreciation for process and to innate appreciation for the unknown – because with printmaking, until that moment when you peel the paper away from your plate, you never quite know what you’re going to get. I generally work in intaglio and relief printing and have recently begun exploring reduction methods to add colour.  

 

Maureen Isnor: Born in Hamilton, graduated from McMaster University with degrees in Philosophy and Anthropology. Years later I finally followed my true desire to study art and enrolled in the Dundas Valley School of Art Foundation Studies Program (2000), followed by Honors Degree from McMaster University Fine Art.  Not knowing anything about printmaking at that time, it would later become my primary medium when I was introduced to Centre3 in 2006, and work with copper and zinc plates, monoprint, collagraph and lithography.  My current focus is derived from nature and tree studies to create landscapes that honour the ever changing environment. 

 

Maureen Paxton is a drawer, painter and printmaker who lives in Hamilton. She has exhibited in many solo and group shows, largely in Ontario and was a member of the now defunct Loop Gallery in Toronto. She taught at Sheridan (Trafalgar) and at OCA (now OCADU). Aside from fine art, she worked in editorial illustration, producing eight children’s trade books and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Medal for illustration for The Dinner Party. She also writes, has been published and was a member of the Tarragon Theatre’s Playwright’s Unit. Her visual work focuses on the figure. 

 

Maureen Steuart: Mo was born in Victoria, British Columbia, moved 33 times in her life, and is happiest by the seasides.  Interested in art initially in Senneville, Quebec.  Studied with Jean Madison, and Robert Creighton. Mostly interested in printmaking work in collections in North America and is printmaking currently at Centre3, Hamilton. 

 

Robert Creighton, born 1949 Port Hope, Ontario. Educated in Canada, (Diploma 1971, Humber College, Honours BA 1977, McMaster University, Bed. 1989 University of Toronto), and the United Kingdom, (MFA 1979 Edinburgh College of Art/Herriot Watt University). Exhibited widely in group and solo shows, (Europe, South Africa, Australia, China, Japan, United States, Canada). Have taught printmaking for over forty years, (Mohawk College, Brock University, McMaster University, University of Guelph, University of Toronto, Peel Bd.of Ed., Grand Erie Bd. Of Ed., Dundas Valley School of Art, Centre 3, Button Factory).