Chanel DesRoches is a painter and printmaker based in Guelph, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, Honours in Studio Art from the University of Guelph (2019) and a Master of Fine Arts from York University (2024). She focuses her interests and research around abstraction through queer studies, deviance, societal issues, anxiety, and resilience. Expressed in her painting, she often leans on deflection tactics as an easy escape and avoidance strategy in social interactions or conversations that provoke dialogue and reflection from her younger self. Her practice informs the acts of pretending and reacting to each mark, gesture, colour, and form – the removal from reality and the creation of a new in-between, something that can be revised, reimagined, and repeated. Driving from personal experience, Chanel relentlessly engages with painting in the moment, allowing herself to interchangeably utilize intuition and compulsion as a means for mark making.

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www.chaneldesroches.com

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Instagram: @chaneldesrochesart

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After completing an Honours BA in Fine Art from the University of Guelph, Nancy continued her art studies through workshops in Canada and the United States, studying with Peter Kolsnyk and John Leonard in Canada and Steve Aimone and Nicholas Wilton in the US.  Working in sculpture, painting and mixed media, she has participated in the Toronto Outdoor Exhibition as well as over 100 solo, group and juried exhibitions.

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This award-winning artist has always been intrigued with the endless potential of abstract and non-objective painting. She is drawn to colour and gestural mark making.  She often distills past memories of landscape into her highly imaginative paintings. 

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