Rudolf Stussi is a Swiss-born painter who came to Canada during 1967 to attend Carlton University. Stussi then studied and taught at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in the year 1978. From 1988 to 1991 he was president of the Canadian Society of Painters in the Water Colour (CSPWC).

Rudolf was totally involved in animation with Toronto based Nelvana. He also directed the award winning series “Little Bear” and “Rolie-Polie-Olie” and the great film “Heidi”. In the year 1998, Stussi was the subject of a monograph by the Canadian art critic Paul Duval and had illustrated several books.

His published works include:

•Rudolf Stussi, Painter by Paul Duval, Benteli (Switzerland), 1988
•Periwinkle Isn’t Paris by Marylin Eisenstein, Tundra Books (Canada), 1999
•Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Desertina (Switzerland), 2000\

He was represented by galleries in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Jack Leonard Shadbolt (February 4, 1909 – November 22, 1998) is a Canadian painter.

Born in Shoeburyness, England, he then came to Canada with his parents during 1912, and was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. From the period 1928 to 1937, he taught in high schools in Duncan, British Columbia and Vancouver, British Columbia. He studied with his companion Frederick Varley at the Vancouver School of Art. From 1938 to 1966, he taught at the Vancouver School of Art and was the head of painting and also drawing section until 1966. During World War II, he was an official War artist for the Canadian Army.

In the year 1972, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1990, he was also awarded by the Order of British Columbia.

Tony Scherman (born 1950) was a leading Canadian painter. Born in Toronto, Canada and during 1974 graduate of the Royal College of Art, Scherman has had his solo shows in galleries and regional museums although Canada and the United States. His most expressive work often depicts historical figures and was held in public collections world-wide. He is most chiefly known for a monumental cycle of Napoleon portraits and French Revolution paintings collected in the 2002 art book, Chasing Napoleon: Forensic Portraits.

Jean-Paul Riopelle (7 October 1923 - 12 March 2002) was a painter and sculptor as well from Quebec, Canada.

Born in Montreal, he studied under Paul-Émile Borduas during 1940s and was a member of Les Automatists movement. He was one of the good signers of the Refus global manifesto. In 1949 he moved to Paris and then continued his career as a painter, where he commercialized on his picture as a “wild Canadian”. His life and artistic partner was the great American painter, Joan Mitchell. They also kept separate homes and studios near Giverny, where Monet lived. They were influenced one another significantly, as much rationally as artistically, but their relationship was a violent one, fueled by alcohol. At times their styles were extraordinarily similar.

In June, 2006 the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts prearranged a displayed exhibition that was presented at the State Hermitage Museum at Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Musee Cantini in the Marseilles, France. The Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal still has a number of his works, spanning his whole career, in their permanent collection.

Don Reichert was a Canadian artist. While chiefly a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition but he is also called as a photographer and digital media artist. Born in Libau, Manitoba in the year 1932 to parents who had emigrated from Austria, he studied art in Canada, Mexico, and also at England. He taught for many years at the University of the Manitoba. Praised early on by the columnist Clement Greenberg, Reichert has also produced work that is held in many famous public, corporate and the private collections, with the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of the Fine Art, and the Canada Council Art Bank, among others.

He has worked intimately with globally, acclaimed clay painter Robert Archambeau. Both artists operate studios in the distant Canadian town of the Bissett, Manitoba.

Reichert has for some years been allied with the arts magazine Border Crossings.

Mary Frances Pratt (nee West) (born on 15 March 1935 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) was a Canadian painter specializing for still life paintings.

She attended Mount Allison University, graduating during 1961. She married to artist Christopher Pratt, from Mount Allison. After the marriage, she continued with him to Newfoundland. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Memorial University Art Gallery in Newfoundland during 1967. In 1996, she was honored with the title “Companion of the Order of Canada”.

Her works include:

The Back Porch (1966)
Caplin (1969)
Eviscerated Chickens (1971)
Red Currant Jelly (1972)
Amaryllis (1975)

John Christopher Pratt, O.C. (born on 9 December 1935 in St. John’s, Newfoundland) was a Canadian Painter. He then moved to New Brunswick in 1953 to attend Mount Allison University, where he also met his future wife, the artist Mary Pratt (nee West). He got married to her in 1957. In 1961 he became the guardian at the Memorial University Art Gallery in St. John’s, where he stayed for long two and half years. He and his wife moved on to St. Mary’s Bay.

His works include:
Good Friday (1973)
March Night (1976)
March Crossing (1977)
Benoit’s Cove: Sheds in winter (1998)
He had designed the flag of Newfoundland and Labrador.

In 1973 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was very much promoted to Companion in 1983.

William Perehudoff (born 1919 in Langham, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian painter, most famous with Color field painting. He also married to the landscape painter Dorothy Knowles.

Life and career

Born in Saskatchewan in 1919, his formal education took and ended at grade four, and worked on his parent’s farm near Saskatoon for few years even as developing an interest in art. He became a close friend of the art critic Clement Greenberg, who is having already been closely associated with Greenberg’s idea of Post-painterly Abstraction.

In 1994, he was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Due to failing health, Perehudoff gave up painting in 2001.

Paul Peel (7 November 1860 – 3 October 1892) was a Canadian painter.

Peel was born in London, Ontario, and then received his art training from his father from his young age itself. Later to that he studied under William Lees Judson and at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Philadelphia under Thomas Eakins.

He then moved to Paris, France where he got art training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at that Academy Julian under Benjamin Constant, Henri Doucet and Jules Lefebvre. In 1882 he got married Isaure Verdier and had two children with her.

Peel traveled broadly in Canada and in the Europe, displaying as a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy. He also exhibited at global shows like the Paris Salon.

He got a lung infection and died in his sleep, in Paris, France, at the age of 32.

Mimi Parent (September 8, 1924 - June 14, 2005), born Marie Parent in the Montreal and was a Canadian surrealist artist.

She was the eighth child of the nine children of architect Lucien Parent. Between 1942 and 1947 she pursued her studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montréal and there she met the artist Jean Benoît (whom she later married in 1948). In 1947 she had her first one-woman exhibition displayed at the Dominion Gallery in Montreal and received praise from Time Magazine.

In 1948 she received the Cézanne medal and she exhibited at the “Surrealist intrusion into the Enchanter’s Domain” in city New York during 1960 and in 1966 had an only exhibition at the “Maya” gallery in Brussels. She then exhibited in Chicago, London, Lausanne and Frankfurt. She assisted with the association of the “”Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme”" (EROS) that ran from December 15, 1959-February 15, 1960 in Paris, with the menu for the exhibition being designed by Parent and Duchamp. The display catalogue, titled Boite Alerte - Missives Lascives, was presented as a green box into which ideas can be ‘posted’.

She lived and also worked in Paris, France. She died 14 June 2005 in Switzerland.