Artway Invitational - Past Exhibits

An accomplished artist, who achieved a gold medal in his masters of history in art at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and a master of fine arts from Punjab University, Chandigarh. He has intertwined his love of Sikhism and culture with his art. The unquestionable strength of his technical skill is most notable in the details bestowed on the many oil, portraits and other artifacts that characterize his work.

Born in Faridkot, Punjab. He was groomed with the best of studies, cultural and moral values. Kulwant followed his childhood dream of becoming an artist and started to convey feelings, emotions and love of his surroundings through paintings. Whole heartedly, he started developing a variety of creations using oil colors, water colors, pastels, acrylics and mixed media. Kulwant came to Canada in 2002. He attended the college of arts in Toronto and excelled it at every level. Through paintings he wants to share religious, social and rich cultural messages to the youth. Kulwant published the boundaries of art, existence and respectability with his realistic, close to heart and beautiful creations raising his art to the next level.

He took part in the various exhibitions and was awarded with many state and national level awards. He also portrays a variety of personalities like religious leaders, scholars, generals, kingdoms, freedom fighters and royalty to enrich the humans with invaluable knowledge of their heritage. His paintings touch upon the inner emotions, humanity and universal love. He has covered every aspect of art from paintings to sculptures.

Visual Arts Brampton is pleased to present works from the students of Creative Village Studio at Community Living Toronto. Creative Village Studio is a community based art studio in the heart of Islington Village, operated by Community Living Toronto. Creative Village Studio runs classes in arts and crafts, painting, photography, knitting, expressive arts and music for individuals with intellectual disabilities and the community. Classes are taught by internal staff and professionals within their disciplines. Our vision is to provide a supportive space for artists with varying abilities in order to enrich lives through creative expression. Individuals can display and sell their works. We offer an array of sales items from cards, sculpture, photographs and paintings to hand made seasonal crafts. Creative Village studio also participates in conferences, festivals and markets, art gallery showings, competitions and outreach education.

For more information, visit the  Creative Village Studio.

I guess I have always painted for as long as I remember. I first took the brush to paper as a ten year old to create two pieces of art 'Yesterday Today and Tomorrow' and 'Life in Universe' in watercolor. Both of them won me the first prize in the little town in South India where I was born.

Then I lay down the brush for years only painting vistas in my mind and waiting for that time 'when I would have time to stand and stare...'

It took me 38 more years to realise that time may never come and I may leave this world with these unpainted frames inside of me.

So I picked up painting again oils this time making time in between my full time corporate job and being mom to two kids.

I paint for my own pleasure, Painting is like a prayer to my soul. But, after having filled 20 or more canvases with color I decided to give myself this online gallery.

Come walk along here, browse your cares away, leave your ideas and if you wish, take something away.

My name is Paul Draper and I am 40 years of age. I was born and raised in Brampton, Ontario. I first became interested in art when I was eight or nine years old. I attended Helen Wilson Public School and when I was in grade three or four, I was placed in a special education class where my teacher assisted me with developing my early artistic skills. Later on in junior high and high school, my ability became more pronounced.

I began experimenting with various utensils, such as: lead, pencils, chalk, pens, coloured pencils, various paints, coloured markers, and pastels. Several of my works have been placed on display at such places as: Visual Arts Brampton (Artway), The 2010 and 2011 Travelling Floral show through Visual Arts Brampton, CMHA's Par Clubhouse Art Show, Supportive Housing in Peel's Art show, Destination Cafe - Art Show, The Designer Commitee and Mad Pride Week.

I am very proud of my accomplishments and I have found art to be of great therapeutic significance for me.

Mirror Image is a random, single panel comic strip observing the strangeness of life. It has appeared in print at Brampton Guardian, Orangeville Banner, Oakville Voice and Soo Profile. The comic strip can also be found online at Facebook, Twitter and www.mirrorimagecomics.com

About the author: I am humanoid, and sustained by coffee.