Reference: biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.64, Westbridge Pub., 1999

Reference: born in Minnesota and lived in Manitoba; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.68, Westbridge Pub., 1999

Reference: listed on www.artprice.com

Reference: see artist's website melissaellencole.com;

Melissa Cole earned a Diploma in Botanical Illustration with Distinction from The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was honoured with the Lizzie Sanders Award for Excellence in Botanical Illustration. Melissa also holds a Master of Arts in Art History from Birkbeck, University of London. Currently based in Calgary, Melissa has been an active member of the local arts community for many years. Over the course of her career, Melissa has had the privilege of taking on a variety of roles - from arts administration and sales, to consulting and curation - working with numerous galleries and arts organizations. Most recently, Melissa had a solo exhibition - The Virtue of Weeds: What’ve Carried with Us - at the Leighton Art Centre.

Reference: see artist's website tonicormier.com;

​Toni Cormier is a visual artist and arts educator in Moh’kinstis [Calgary, Alberta]. Based primarily in painting, drawing, and sculpture, her work looks at the interdependence of beings and the dynamics of power in which we live with each other. Structures of play, deception, absurdity, and social roles are explored through imagery based in an Albertan lived experience.

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Reference: listed on www.artprice.com

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; also included on the Getty Union List of Artist Names Online, by the Getty Research Trust website

Reference: Paul deGroot was born in the Netherlands but moved to Canada at an early age and is currently based in Calgary. Paul started art school at Kootenay College along with good friend, Chris Cran. Both Paul and Chris then moved to Calgary to finish their degrees at the Alberta College of Art, [now the Alberta University of the Arts], where Paul’s nickname became 'the forger'. Paul continued to work in his home studio but did not exhibit until recently. Last year Paul had his first solo show at the Herringer Kiss Gallery which was a critical and commercial success. He has had two works purchased by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and numerous to private collections. Paul’s current work is rooted in the photorealist genre, though not in the strictest sense. The paintings, executed in oil, are based on personal photographs, chosen intuitively, which are generally photoshopped or manipulated in some manner before translating them to canvas. The subject matter consists of everyday scenes, such as buildings, street scenes, vehicles, figures, etc., that are often perceived as ordinary or unremarkable in themselves. Although mostly painted monochromatically, colour always plays an important role in the paintings. The work is influenced by an interest in the ordinary, everyday world, and in trying to make some sense of it.

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Reference: see artist's website megandyck.com;

Megan Dyck is an artist and educator living and working in Calgary, AB. Dyck holds a BFA in Painting from AUArts and earned an MFA in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. In addition to her own studio practice, Dyck has worked as an educator and researcher for the last 10 years, the majority of which have been at AUArts (formerly ACAD), teaching drawing, painting and colour theory.

As a painter preoccupied with deconstructed imagery of the body, Megan Dyck’s work draws from fragmented representations of the human figure as observed in film, photography, and social media. Deploying collage as an essential preliminary process where isolated components of the body are arranged to form new composite images, her paintings carefully merge scenes of close-up faces, isolated body parts, and cut-away gestures. By applying cinematic considerations of splicing, super-imposing, sequencing, and montage within a pictorial context, these works collectively investigate states of anxiety and euphoria associated with experiencing desire.

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Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E6-755, community Pannirtuq / Pangnirtung

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-138, community Lake Harbour / Kimmirut

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1013, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number W2-483, community Holman / Ulukhaktok

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-1611, community Port Harrison / Inukjuak

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-828, community Frobisher Bay / Iqaluit

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-200, community Belcher Islands / Sanikiluaq

listed on www.artprice.com

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E3-257, community Baker Lake

Reference: John [K] Esler was born in 1933 in Pilot Mound, Manitoba and attended the School of Art at the University of Manitoba, graduating in 1960. He continued studies there, receiving a Bachelor of Education degree in 1962, and in 1964, after a period of travel in Europe, took a teaching position at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. He joined the faculty of the University of Calgary in 1968 where he taught intaglio printmaking, staying there until his retirement in the 1980s. Esler was well-known in the Calgary arts community, and did much to raise the profile of printmaking in the province. He played a major role in the expansion of the printmaking department at the Alberta College of Art and Design and at the University of Calgary and in partnership with artist Ken Webb, established Trojan Press to provide a facility for local printmakers to develop their skills. Esler's works were exhibited widely throughout Canada and abroad and he is represented in many public and private collections. His awards included the C.W. Jefferys' Award from the Canadian Society of Graphic Arts and the G.A. Reid Memorial Award from the Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers.

see 35 Years and 15 Minutes, prints by John Kenneth Esler, by S.Ford, Nickle Arts Museum, 1994;

biography and other examples in
Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.80;
Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.66-69;
N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.300; Dict. Of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.1 pg.192;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg. 106, Westbridge Pub., 1999;
Manitoba Society of Artists by J.Stoppler, pg.158, the Manitoba Society of Artists, 2003;
Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 35, pg. 65, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: listed on www.katilvik.com

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-989, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E8-581, community George River;

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website