2022 Halls Island Artists
Meet the talented artists selected to be part of the Halls Island Artist Residency in 2022.
Deborah Burian
Deborah Burian is an award-winning artist who is visually inspired both by wide expanses and the secrets found in hidden hollows. Click Here for Deborah’s full bio.
Lisa Cristinzo
Lisa Cristinzo (She/her) is a queer painter and installation artist and first-generation Canadian settler living in Tkaronto, on Turtle Island. Lisa’s work investigates the by-products of humanity and their mythic significance, through large-scale paintings that traverse natural history, climate hazards, materialism, and magic. Click Here to read Lisa’s full bio.
Julie Hartley
Julie embraces all forms of writing, including poetry, plays, children’s fiction, short stories, literary novels and academic writing. Click here to ready Julie’s full bio.
Lesia Mokrycke
Lesia Mokrycke is a landscape artist whose work has been featured in exhibitions across Canada and in the United States. Her poetic, creative and contemplative approach to environmental art focuses on shaping terrain, with a particular interest in water and trees. Click Here for Lesia’s full bio.
Cleopatria Peterson
Cleopatria Peterson is a multidisciplinary artist that writes, printmakes, illustrates and loves self-publishing. Click Here to read Cleopatria’s full bio.
Jane Selbie
Jane ‘s art is inspired by the rugged beauty of our northern places. Artist, educator, inventor; with a unique fabric technique she explores the special moments in time. Click here to read Jane’s full bio.
Bren Simmers
An award-winning writer whose work is rooted in a sense of place, Bren Simmers is the author of three books of poetry: If, When (Gaspereau Press, 2021), Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, and Night Gears (Wolsak & Wynn, 2010). Click Here for Bren’s full bio.
Lori Twining
Lori Twining is a reader, writer, and storyteller whose work encompasses fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Click Here to read Lori’s full bio .
Lisa Ann Wright
Lisa Ann Wright is an offbeat, award-winning singer/songwriter raised in rural upstate New York residing in Arlington,Virginia. She performs both originals and cover songs with ukulele and guitar in a variety of venues. Click Here for Lisa-Anne’s full bio.