Our Instructors
Wendy Bannerman
Art Instructor - Watercolour
Wendy is an award winning watercolour painter who shares her joy of the medium through teaching workshops and lessons at various art centres in Ontario. Her work is on display in private collections in Canada and the US. Her favourite subjects include random small details found in nature, wildlife, and the wonderful landscapes of Canada. Wendy’s classes include lots of demonstrations, and you are encouraged to work on what interests you most.
Nancy Buckingham
Art Instructor - Watercolour
Nancy Buckingham has been teaching art for over 20 years. Her style is representational with attention to detail, depicting everything from landscapes to abstracts. Her welcoming classes cover perspective, composition, and everything in between. Every class Nancy teaches includes a demonstration of various techniques.
Nancy received her first art training in oils from the world renowned Italian artist Albert Chiarandini in 1978. Work in a variety of media followed, but none captured her heart like the fluid and transient nature of watercolour. She has studied with many teachers including Master Artist June Thomson whose knowledge and talents have become the backbone of her teachings. Affiliations also include The Guild of Portrait Painters.
Jacqueline Crawley
Art Instructor - Oil/Acrylic and Mixed Media
Jacqueline Crawley has been teaching art for over 15 yrs. She teaches drawing, painting and sculpture. Jacqueline has a fine art degree from the University of Guelph, enrichment courses in art history and theatre design at the University of Toronto, and architectural structure and illustration from Ryerson. She has worked as an editorial illustrator, architectural draftsman, exhibit detailer and art teacher. She brings to her teaching a strong interest in all art and artistic expression. Her goal as an art instructor is to encourage personal artistic growth.
To view Jacqueline's work please visit: jacquelinecrawley.comjacquelinecrawley.com or her teaching webpage: artinstructor.net
Catharine de Montmorency
Art Instructor - Oil/Acrylic and Plein Air
Catharine is an accomplished “Plein Air” artist and studio art teacher in oils and acrylics. After a career of fourteen years with the Toronto School Board in adult education , she now divides her time between teaching art, travel, and painting on location. She is a member of the Ontario Plein Air Society and has shown her works in several shows and galleries in the Toronto area, and at The Loop in Dwight, Ontario.
Inspired by the courage of the members of the Group of Seven to paint out in the wild and bring to canvas the strong beauty of Canada, she sets out travelling our great land and sometimes hiking and canoeing to find the locations for her Plein Air experience. Back in her studio with the fresh painting study on her easel, and assisted by vivid memories, photographs and sketches, she creates larger studio paintings which capture our enduring Canadian wilderness.
Catharine teaches at FCAG in Oils and Acrylics and leads the challenging Plein Air course.
Catharine de Montmorency
Art Instructor - Oil/Acrylic and Plein Air
Catharine is an accomplished “Plein Air” artist and studio art teacher in oils and acrylics. After a career of fourteen years with the Toronto School Board in adult education , she now divides her time between teaching art, travel, and painting on location. She is a member of the Ontario Plein Air Society and has shown her works in several shows and galleries in the Toronto area, and at The Loop in Dwight, Ontario.
Inspired by the courage of the members of the Group of Seven to paint out in the wild and bring to canvas the strong beauty of Canada, she sets out travelling our great land and sometimes hiking and canoeing to find the locations for her Plein Air experience. Back in her studio with the fresh painting study on her easel, and assisted by vivid memories, photographs and sketches, she creates larger studio paintings which capture our enduring Canadian wilderness.
Catharine teaches at FCAG in Oils and Acrylics and leads the challenging Plein Air course.
Kelly McNeil
Art Instructor
Kelly McNeil graduated from Ontario College of Art in Editorial Illustration 1983, and Ontario College of Art and Design University with a Bachelor of Design in 2012.
She has been a Wildlife Artist for 19 years, and shows her work internationally, as far away as Russia, Tasmania, and has Galleries in Fuquay-Varina, NC and Jackson Hole WY, as well as Southern Ontario. She exhibits in large Wildlife Shows in Charleston, South Carolina (SEWE) (14 years), and Buckhorn, Ontario (Buckhorn Fine Arts Festival) (14years). McNeil can be found painting in her Eastern Wildlife Studio, in Brampton, ON.
To McNeil, a painting has to capture the drama and life of the subject. She has learned so much about the natural world since studying wildlife. She has discovered an abundance of wildlife in her own backyard: Deer, Blue Herons, Night Herons, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Red Tailed Hawks, and Owls are just some of them.
To view Kelly's work: www.kellymcneil.net
Robert Reynolds
Art Instructor
Lucia Taddio
Art Instructor
Vicky Vuksinic
Art Instructor
Makayla Hutter
Art Instructor - Childrens classes and Summer Camp Leader
Makayla is an undergraduate student pursuing a degree in Community Social Services, and she has extensive experience in planning and facilitating art classes for children of all ages with empathy and passion.
She will encourage children to create art by teaching them art techniques and enjoy self-expression.
Curt Gaudon
Art Instructor
Curt Gaudon is a painter trained in fine art and design with a BDes Specialized Honours from York University. He paints scenes of nature that move and sway like water, branches, and leaves.
Through research, observation, and reflection, he works to master an understanding of paint materials and visual language. His approach utilizes plein-air and studio practice to iterate and explore the experience and memory of the natural world through design, imagination, and universality.
Curt works to incite and contribute to positive action for mental health and environmental stewardship.
Darlene Kulig
Art Instructor - Teens Classes
Darlene Kulig was awarded the CSEA/Berol Prismacolour National Art Scholarship, granted to six Canadian students entering Fine Arts based on outstanding potential in visual arts. Graduating as an Associate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, she quickly established herself in the commercial world of art and within 4 years was running her own successful design studio.
Berni Russo
Art Instructor
Berni has a BFA from York University majoring in drawing and painting. She has also studied at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto.
Other than working as a fine art artist, she also works at the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery as a part time guide.
Victor Rusu
Art Instructor
Victor is freelance Photographer and currently Creative Director at FA Co. with a love for bold, cinematic aesthetics. Coming from the TMU's photo bachelor program, he has guest lectured a fashion/portrait photography course, worked in youth mentoriship programs and been a speaker/leader for global tech summits.
Victor has a great passion for philosophy, people, motorcycles, vinyl records and, of course, storytelling!
