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ARC Fab
Specialty - Metal Art and Signs
Artist: Justyn Archer
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Artist: Justyn Archer
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Artist: Jason Archer
Archer Metal Art Designs is a hobby enjoyed by husband and wife team, Jay and Lyne Archer.
Jay is the creator/artist and handles all the designs and assembly. Lyne is Jay's biggest supporter handling everything from product orders to final delivery and everything in between. Both Jay and Lyne are very warm friendly people with magnetic personalities.
Jay has been working with metal his whole life but in recent years decided to blend his metalworking skills with his artistic vision. He creates all of his artwork in their home workshop studio. The studio is located in a beautiful picturesque countryside property near Petrolia. Jay has a unique ability to see with an artistic eye bringing his vision to life in a finely crafted metal creation. He is primarily self-taught which he finds freeing and allows him to build things without confining limitations or rules.
Phone: 519-882-1338
Email: lynearcher@hotmail.com
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Artist: Dee Stewardson
Dee Stewardson is a local artist whose work is rooted in deep listening, to nature, to the body, and to the quiet wisdom that emerges through creative practice. Drawing from a background in wellness and lived experience of burnout and renewal, Dee?s art is both a personal inquiry and an invitation for others to slow down, notice, and reconnect.
Working primarily through painting and nature based exploration, Dee is inspired by moments of stillness: light filtering through leaves, the texture of bark, reflections on water, and the subtle presence of wildlife. These encounters shape work that honours presence, resilience, and the restorative power of time spent in relationship with the natural world.
Dee?s creative practice extends beyond the canvas, informing her work as a guide and facilitator of artistic wellness experiences. Through workshops, retreats, and community gatherings, she supports others in using creativity as a pathway to grounding, reflection, and well-being, bridging art, nature, and lived human experience.
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Donna Powers-Garner
Donna was always very artistically inclined from the early age of five. She took art from Jane Freeman during her secondary education at Lambton Central Collegiate Vocational Institute in Petrolia, Ontario. She graduated from Humber College, Rexdale, Ontario in 1976 from the Registered Practical Nursing program. In 2003, she graduated from the University of Western Ontario/ Kings College, London Ontario from the Grief and Bereavement Studies.
In her 20's and 30's, Donna travelled to many different countries including: Paris, France; Rome; Venice; and Florence, Italy. Michelangelo is her favourite of all the great masters.
Donna took lessons from Judy Betts of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rick Garner, as well as, Ariel Lyons of Petrolia, Ontario, and Cathy Earl of Sarnia, Ontario.
She never realised back in her youth how much art would become a large part of her life in later years. She has often used it as a catharsis throughout her life.
Donna has been a member of Lawrence House Centre of the Arts since 2017 and is a volunteer there. She shows her work 5 times a year in the Lawrence House Memberships shows.
Her specialty is painting on Ostrich, Emu and Rhea eggs. She has been teaching acrylic painting, water colours, drawing and coloured pencils for 6 years at Michaels Arts and Crafts. Since 2019, she has taught classes in her own home to children, youth and adults.
Phone: 519-344-8095
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Artist: Allegonda Heesakkers
Allegonda (Artesian Goddess) is back with Art in The Park Petrolia. She brings with her an eclectic assortment of energy infused hand crafted items. Working with crystals and wire, resin and dragon energy, she is always changing in her creativity. From sun catchers to jewelry to dioramas, she has something for everyone.
Phone: 519-336-5430
Email: artesiangoddess@gmail.com
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Artist: Bonnie Stevenson
As a silversmith, Bonnie works in small artisanal and production batches from sterling grain.
She smelts, forms, fabricates; bezel set, wire wrap, string and generally plays with jewellery and the making of wearable art. Bonnie graduated from l'Ecole de Joaillerie de Montreal in 2008 and came to live in Sarnia, Ontario that same year. She intuitively plays with crystals and often interpret their vibrations. As a creative, she plays with resin to make Orgone Generators, which is basically an EMF buster. She is constantly learning and adding to her vast knowledge about rocks and crystals while learning to play with jewellery in different forms and mediums also intrigues her.
Phone: 519-332-9700
Email: jewellerybuzz@gmail.com
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Artist: Sheri Wright
Sheri has always been a beach loving girl. She could spend hours just walking the shores staring out at the waves and daydreaming. Her passion for the ocean grew when her daughter went to medical school on a little island in the Caribbean. She visited her there every chance she could.
Sheri started picking up sea glass on her walks on the sand. After 10 plus years and pounds of glass, her husband suggested she start doing something with all the glass or stop picking it up. That's how Caribbean Treasures was born. She wanted to continue walking and picking up these 'jewels'
The glass 'speaks' to her. She doesn't alter the pieces at all. She looks at each piece individually and it tells her what it should be. Each art piece she makes is as unique as the person who purchases it.
Phone: 519-402-0258
Email: caribbeangirl1194@gmail.com
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Artist: Kathryn Smythe
Kathryn Smythe is a craftsperson creating old fashioned new things.
Her company, Carnival of Kitsch rescues the fine fabrics and luxury leather goods of the past. These items are then refashioned into stylish, practical accessories for the present. Each piece is handmade and repurposed using vintage, (1940's -1980's) leather garments, belts, curtains, upholstery, cushion covers, tablecloths and other forgotten articles of everyday life.
Email: carnivalofkitsch@gmail.com
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Artist: Nicole Brown
Dreamweaver Face Painting and Mascots is a vibrant, family-owned entertainment company founded by Nicole and Steve Brown. Established in January 2020, the company was built on a shared passion for creativity, imagination, and bringing joy to people of all ages.
From the very beginning, Dreamweaver set out to transform ordinary events into unforgettable experiences. Specializing in professional face painting and high-quality mascot entertainment, the company quickly earned a reputation for its artistic excellence, attention to detail, and warm, engaging service. Steve?s artistic talent and eye for design, combined with Nicole?s organizational skills and dedication to customer experience, created a strong foundation for the business to thrive.
Despite launching during a challenging time for live events, Dreamweaver Face Painting and Mascots adapted with resilience and innovation. Through perseverance and a commitment to their craft, Nicole and Steve continued to grow their brand, bringing color, fun, and magic to birthday parties, community events, corporate functions, and festivals.
Today, Dreamweaver is known for its wide range of creative offerings, from intricate face painting designs to lively mascot appearances that captivate and entertain audiences. At its core, the company remains driven by a simple mission: to create joyful, memorable moments that spark imagination and leave lasting smiles.
With a passion for excellence and a love for what they do, Nicole and Steve Brown continue to expand Dreamweaver Face Painting and Mascots, turning dreams into delightful realities?one face, one event, and one smile at a time.
Phone: 519-491-7148
Email: dreamweaver4100@gmail.com
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Artist: Elaine Craddock
Elaine is a self-taught clay artist who incorporates various textures and shapes into her hand-made Pottery. Her specialty is organic hand-built pieces and leaf impressions that are artistic as well as functional. She is always looking at objects and wondering what kind of imprint the item will leave in clay.
While creating interesting bowls on the wheel, she loves to incorporate the latest colour trends when working with glazes. Working out of a home studio, she creates her pottery designs on a full-time basis.
Elaine loves to transform a lump of clay into a bowl, a dish or a one of a kind sculpture. Glazed and fired in her kiln, the surfaces are as vastly different as the variety of glazes she works with. She strives to create aesthetically pleasing works in stoneware clay at a reasonable price for everyone to enjoy. All of her functional pottery is lead free, microwave, and dishwasher safe.
Clay allows her the freedom to 'colour outside of the lines' and express herself in a creative outlet. She also loves to use organic objects such as leaves and doilies in the creation of her art.
One of her greatest appreciations is when someone looks at her work at a craft show and comments that they have not seen anything like it.
Email: escraddock@rogers.com
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Artist: Alison and Ren Feniak
Feniak's Firings is a family passion, starting with her grandmother who collected pottery and passed on her love of clay. Alison began taking courses while in university and was luck enough to set up a studio shortly after, with help from her father in developing glazes. Now she is joined by her kids who have added several creations to her offerings. Feniak's Firings pottery includes mainly functional wheel thrown pieces enhanced by colourful glazes and carving. Each piece is unique and frequently reflects nature and life.
Email: alisonfeniak@gmail.com
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Artist: Olga Butch
These original, handcrafted wreaths vary in design and style. They are displayed at the arts and crafts shows throughout Ontario.
Olga has enjoyed this hobby for many years and derive great pleasure in creating products that are both appealing and
affordable for her clients.
Phone: 905-737-7509
Email: floral_fantasies@sympatico.ca
July 10 - 11
Artist: Margaret Anne McKichan
Margaret Anne is a retired teacher... hence the name: Glass Beyond Class. She works out of her "home studio" in Corunna. She focuses on sun catchers, small window panels and, more recently, 3-D creations on driftwood and 3-D cactus plants. She is proud to have been commissioned to create memorial windows for a few local churches and was particularly pleased to create some musical pieces, which is one of her other "passions" in life. She considers herself fortunate to have made items for friends in Arizona, which is her winter "hangout". One of her most popular pieces has been her own design of the Blue Water bridges in which she creates a 3-D effect for the second bridge.
Hoping to see many familiar faces in Petrolia for this amazing show.
Phone: 519-862-2179
Email: mmckichan@cogeco.ca
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Artist: Tammy Ward
Tammy started her journey in pottery in 1999 taking pottery classes at Lambton College. Working in clay seemed to resonate with her love of nature, and she opened her studio, Green Dragonfly Pottery, in a spare outbuilding on their farm.
Dragonflies and nature have always figured heavily in her work. From my studio overlooking woods, ponds, and farm fields, there was no shortage of inspiration. She makes functional pottery for the home, and whimsical pottery for the garden. From mugs and bowls to bird feeders and birdhouses, dragonflies, bees and bright colours bring it all together.
Phone: 519-384-4025
Email: tammyward2015@hotmail.com
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Artist: Garry Thornton
In 1958 I was introduced to leather work in public school. My Manual Training class made small leather car-key cases. I gave mine to my older sister. She showed it off to coworkers, and I soon had orders for a dozen copies. The idea that money could be made from a hobby was a revelation to my preteen self.
Soon, I wanted to expand my knowledge and began searching the library for books on leather work. In those days I had never seen the tools I saw in books. These things were associated with western horsemen and hard to locate in eastern Canada. However, my parents stepped in and through family friends I was introduced to a disabled veteran who had learned leather craft as part of his therapy. He gave me a few lessons and a list of basic tools.
At home leather work was not a hard sell. Other crafts required specialized equipment or work spaces. There was nothing dangerous, messy or smelly and no long drying times when siblings would be restricted from our common spaces.
My leather tools fit in a fishing tackle box and the bags, wallets and belts that I made were practical not just decorative.
Over 65 years later I am still at it, turning out hand made items one at a time.
Phone: 251-709-4049
Email: grry2rs@gmail.com
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Artist: Greg Huctwith
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Artist: Jan Mosher
From a young age, Jan always enjoyed working with her hands. Growing up in Florida, there were excellent art programs all through school. She was introduced to many mediums but clay stuck with her and inspired her to enroll at Georgian College in Barrie for Design Arts. After she graduated, family, business and other responsibilities took over for several years, until recently, when she went back to clay... and she is sure happy she did! Jan enjoys creating functional and decorative pieces with lots of texture and colour. With the help of her husband, Keith, they are keeping busy being semi retired.
Phone: 519-786-4162
Email: ladybugg62@yahoo.com
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Artist: Jean Grady
Jean Grady is a London based artist who captures the rugged allure of the big open skies, lakes, and trees of the Ontario landscape with a distinctive impressionistic style. She is mesmerized by the intricate patterns of light and shadow in the woods and the sky's reflections on the surface of the water. Jean paints from personal connections and experiences, often framing her paintings from her perspective in a kayak, giving the viewer a chance to feel like they, too, are on the water. She prefers acrylics for the freedom to maintain a fresh style with vivid colours and a broad value range, enabling her to create art that is joyful, full of bold harmonies and detailed with a whimsical touch of magic. Her goal is to touch on subjects and experiences that bring forth a memory or a feeling, connecting the viewer with the image. Jean's work is held in private collections across North America. She hopes her paintings give people a feeling of joy and peace.
Phone: 519-657-9380
Email: j.grady@rogers.com
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Artist: Kylie Deeley
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Artist: Jane Goodal Pretty
Phone: 519-365-3358
Email: beachgirl_99@hotmail.com
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Artist: Shantell Lavigne
Shantell Lavigne is a local artist who was born and raised in London, ON. After graduating High School, she completed the Arts Program at H.B. Beal and then attended Sheridan College for Illustration. After moving back to her hometown, she then met her spouse of 20 years and was blessed with five children. During those years, she painted portraits and taught herself how to sew costumes, quilts, and clothes for her kids. When the pandemic hit, she started making masks to donate to the local schools, neighbour's, family and friends. This then led her to opening a small business called "LAVIGNE'S" and embarking on a new journey for the future. In 2020, she moved to Sarnia and began exploring Art Festivals, Markets and other shows in and around the area. Her Instagram account allowed many designers and fabric shops to view her work, which then lead to many opportunities for collaborations with fabric designers like Katarina Roccella from Art Gallery Fabrics, bag pattern designers like Suzanna McKeon from Hold It Right There Patterns, Muriel Corbierre from Cocotte and Co Creations and Shop owner Amie Waterhouse from My Fabrics Dresser. Shantell loves to use only the finest materials like 100% designers' cotton, eco-friendly cork, vegan leather, Essex linen, cotton canvas and high-quality hardware & zippers to create these unique "one of a kind" pieces. Her products include; bags, wallets, quilts, therapeutic wraps, key fobs, mug rugs, scrunchies, and custom gifts for that personal touch! Have a look at her recent creations.
Phone: 226-224-4756
Email: lavigneshantell@outlook.com
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Judy Tupling
Years ago, Judy traded city life in Montreal for the simplicity of a small hobby farm - a move that pushed her well outside her comfort zone and into a new adventure. She raised a few goats, started milking them - and just like that - goat milk soap became part of her life. Though she no longer lives on the farm, she now sources fresh goat milk from a local farmer, allowing her and her partner to continue crafting their handmade soaps and shampoo bars.
They love connecting with people and sharing the benefits of using all-natural products on their skin. It's incredibly rewarding and inspiring to hear how LindChris products have helped with skin issues or simply brought joy to someone's self-care routine. That feedback is what fuels their passion and keeps them dedicated to creating simple, natural products that people truly love.
Phone: 519-331-5666
Email: jtup@hotmail.com
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Artist: Allison Weir
Welcome to Lollipop Lane Boutique!
This two person team consists of Bekky and her daughter-in-law, Allison. Together, they have been crafting unique and handmade children's clothing and accessories for over 20 years.
They offer a large variety of adorable dresses and clothing, cute purses and hair accessories, and so much more! Whether it be embroidery, sewing or crochet, they love creating one-of-a-kind items that will bring a little colour and joy into your life.
At Lollipop Lane, they are crafting smiles one stitch at a time.
Email: Aweir1@cogeco.ca
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Artist: Mary Ann Helmond and Debbie Benninger
M.A. Beads is the business name used by Mary Ann Helmond for selling her handmade lampwork glass beads. Her beads are made using a torch and coloured rods of Italian glass. The beads are properly annealed to strengthen the glass before being used. Deborah Benninger, of I.D. Jewelry and Design, is a wire weaving artist who works with raw spools of wire to create intricate wire weaving designs that incorporate gem stones, crystals and Mary Ann's beads. Mary Ann and Deborah have combined their business names to create M.A.I.D in Canada. Collaboratively and individually these two artists create unique, one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art jewelry and accessories.
Phone: 416-843-9991
Email: idjewelryanddesign@gmail.com
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Scott and Ashley Laurie
M.C Creation's has been established since 2020, the year that Scott and Ashley got married. What started as a small idea to make all of our own wedding decor turned into way more then we could have ever imagined! Our name is named after our 2 kids Macy and Colton. We started as only doing custom decor and now we do craft shows as well! Scott is the builder and Ashley does the final decorating. In the end we make a great team and love building and crafting together!
Email: m.c.creations@outlook.com
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Artist: Cheryl Scorrar
All products are hand poured and produced in small batches. Cheryl has searched the country to find only the best, top quality ingredients at the most economical prices. After many years and long hours of testing and retesting, she believes that the products are more than worthy of competing with even the largest companies selling the marketplace. Cheryl carries a small selection of electric warmers and plug-ins to compliment the melts and oils. Whether you prefer luscious florals, mouth-watering fresh-from-the-kitchen favourites or any of our other awesome scents, you're sure to find something you'll love.
Phone: 519-971-2246
Email: fragranceforyourhome@yahoo.ca
July 10 - 11
Artist: Mary Nicolai
Mary Nicolai has been crafting for over 40 years. Starting in a tiny dining room, Mary's hobby has grown to become very well known throughout Sarnia/Lambton's craft show community, crafting a wide variety of hand made items including crocheting, knitting, driftwood, mobiles and seashell hangers. Her always popular crochet and knitted items include slippers, turtles, octopi, pumpkins, tea towels, tea towel holders and many more items. She is always coming up with new ideas.
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Artist: Mary Jagt
Mary has been sewing, knitting and crocheting since she was 10 years old. She loves it! She made her kids their clothes as they grew up and currently enjoys making things for the grandchildren. Now it's mostly kids pajamas and with matching ones for the girls' dolls. She started making doll clothes as well. She enjoys keeping kids happy dressing their dolls, too.
All items are preshrunk and made with kid tough stitching! Professional quality and long lasting, too.
Phone: 519-882-0795
Email: thedolldresser18@gmail.com
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Artist: Mona Sullivan
Email: monasullivandesigns@gmail.com
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Artist: Kelly Flaming
My Choice Natural started in 2009 by a man (Kelly Flaming) questioning the ingredients in the skin care products his family was using. The main ingredients in all of the skin care products in the home were made with lathering agents, chemicals, toxins and unfamiliar ingredients.
This enlightenment is what sparked Kelly to see if he could make soap containing only 100% natural ingredients. 100% natural ingredients sets My Choice Natural apart from others; using only food grade oils and butters for the base of his soaps, steam distilled or expeller pressed essential oils for the aroma and natural colorants.
Driven by his passion, My Choice Natural has grown making a full array of products including natural soaps, deodorants, bug repellents, room deodorizers, facial serum, aromatic & health essential oil blends and more.
Phone: 226-345-8065
Email: kelly@naturalmoisturizingsoap.com
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Debbie Manzon
For the past six years, Debbie has been transforming seaglass (nature's own weathered sea jewels) into meaningful, handcrafted art. Each piece of seaglass carries a story, shaped by time, tides, and the quiet persistence of the lake. To her, it symbolizes renewal, resilience, and the beauty of transformation.
Inspired by these natural treasures, she creates a diverse range of pieces including jewelry, candle holders, wind chimes, greeting cards, and shadowbox art. Every creation is thoughtfully designed to highlight the unique character of each fragment; no two pieces are ever the same.
Through her art, Debbie hopes to share not just beauty, but a deeper appreciation for the simple, enduring magic found along the shoreline.
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Artist: Aganetha Peters
A dynamic artist hailing from Woodstock, Ontario, known for her bright colourful artwork. Aganetha breathes life into her canvas through vivid animal portraits and captivating landscapes. Drawing inspiration from Mexico and the bold, vibrant colours of her homeland, Aganetha's passion for capturing Canada's beauty and wildlife resonates in every piece, evoking wonder and joy. Her art celebrates life, urging us to embrace boundless imagination and creativity and is sure to bring happiness into any space. Aganetha's current mediums of choice are acrylics and watercolors.
Email: nansmiles101@hotmail.com
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Artist: Kira-Jade Nixon
Kira-Jade was inspired to create these necklaces by her children and the little nature treasures they love to bring her. Flowers, feathers, pebbles, snail shells, mushrooms, and ladybugs are all handed to her with beaming smiles, muddy fingers and eyes full of pride. She wanted to find a way to preserve that feeling and those treasures forever, and so the idea of necklaces came to life. Little pieces of the springs and summers of their childhood, frozen in time and worn close to the heart.
As a homeschool family living on a farm in Bright's Grove, Ontario, with horses, chickens, and no shortage of wildlife, they spend lots of time out in nature observing and taking in all of God's beautiful Creation. Now, she and her children go for nature walks around their property specifically to look for treasures to put in the necklaces, and it has been such a wonderful way to observe and look for the tiny things in nature that people might normally pass by.
Every necklace is made with treasures found on one of these walks around their farm and each is filled with all of her love. She hopes everyone enjoys wearing theirs as much as she enjoyed making it!
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Artist: Anne Benedict
From an early age, Anne enjoyed drawing, painting and making things. At the end of Grade 8, she was one of three students selected to take a summer art course at the old Willistead Art Gallery in Windsor. She decide to take the pottery classes with Alice Holmes who was a prominent Windsor potter.
After high school, she attended the "Three Schools of Art" in Toronto for one year. Then, was accepted into second and the third year at Georgian College in Barrie with ceramic teachers Roger Kerslake and Ann Mortimer. After college, she was based near Newmarket and sold her pottery at the studio and at shows around Ontario.
At the present time, she work full-time in her studio in Windsor and all her glazes are her own formulations. She use two wheels, one for throwing pots and one for trimming. She has five kilns and retail space in her home. What a great life!
Email: anne.benedict4@gmail.com
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Artist: Greg DeHetre
Greg DeHetre got his start as a jewelry artist in 2010, while making a birthday present for his then three year old daughter. The introduction to the ancient art of chainmaille was a new awakening for Greg. Greg found the intricacies of the different weaves mesmerizing, and actual weaving meditative. Not wanting to use store bought findings in his chainmaille pieces Greg started learning, and using silversmithing techniques in his designs. As the popularity of his designs became evident, Greg made a conscious decision to work in fine metals, and strive to create only the best quality products.
Chainmaille eventually led Greg to learn various other metalworking and jewelry techniques, to achieve his main goal of making quality, handmade jewelry. A short seven years later, Greg has seen a steady rise in the demand for his unique, quality, handcrafted designs, and now pursues his dreams full time. Greg DeHetre now runs R.W. Studios, a successful state of the art studio, where he works, teaches classes, and holds workshops in various jewelry and metalworking techniques. Greg's passion for his art is evident in every piece of jewelry he creates as Ring Weavers, which accounts for the great demand by his loyal clients, and new customers alike.
Phone: 226-345-7104
Email: ringweavers@gmail.com
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Artist: Robert and Cynthia Vance
RCVDesigns is a passion project of Robert (Bob) and Cynthia, a husband and wife team (RCV), dedicated to creating unique woodworking products that make wonderful gifts. Upon Bob's retirement from the Canadian Air Force in 2011, he inherited all his woodworking tools from his father. Unfortunately, he didn't inherit the passion for woodworking. Then in 2014, Bob came upon a woodworking store that sold bright, colourful exotic woods that he had never seen before. This store sparked his passion for woodworking and a new hobby, so Bob decided to turn one side of the garage into a small woodworking shop. The learning curve was pretty steep, learning how to use and maintain the tools while also using the trial and error method to create some household items like a ladder shelf and a dartboard cabinet. Over the past 9 years, Cynthia and Bob have created unique and useful one of a kind wood craft items like charcuterie and serving boards, trivets, BBQ scrapers, etc. by combining bright, exotic coloured woods and domestic hard woods. Recent creations now include charcuterie and serving boards with layered designs filled with coloured epoxy resin. Together, they enjoy designing and making handcrafted items that you can't buy in big box stores. Their customers appreciate the uniqueness, quality and heart that they put into each item that they make.
Phone: 519-862-1925
Email: rcvnb@sympatico.ca
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Artist: Lena Martens
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Artist: Patti Cook
Patti lives to make art and now that she is fully retired she is devoted to spending time in her studio creating and exploring with her various mediums.
Her love of "all things art" is strongly based on her upbringing, which was surrounded in both domestic crafts and the traditional arts. She works to portray her innate thoughts regarding her philosophical, spiritual or worldly expressions, her love of nature...and at other times, just for the pure joy of creating.
Patti's education in the Arts has accumulated over a 40+ year time frame.
Although considered self taught, she has attended a multitude of workshops over the years in both mixed media trends and the traditional arts.
She had the good fortune of participating in workshops under the tutelage of two of her favourite influencers in the world of watercolour: Jeanne Dobie and the late Zoltan Szabo as well as many acrylic masters too numerous to mention. She especially enjoys painted collage as it provides her with another medium to utilize in her expressions.
Patti has expanded and combined her skills in recent years using wool fibres and other natural fibres to create 2D and 3D artworks. She continues to push the envelope with this amazing medium, to explore where it takes her and as a result she has received 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards, awards of merit and honourable mentions with her most recent 2nd place award with a collage using textile, paint and embellishments. Patti has also enjoyed sharing her expertise for the past 10 years teaching in house as well as employed by Gallery in the Grove's VALS program and JNAAG's TNT and RAWS programs.
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Anna Gajewska
Anna is a professional clothing designer who studied fashion design in Poland. She worked for the clothing industry in Poland and in Canada for many years before she decided to create her own line of leather products. Her goal was to provide practical bags and backpacks with a hint of chicness, to support women with their everyday business or travel. She offers various styles, colours, and models matching everybody's needs. A perfect blend of beauty and practicality.
Phone: 403-973-2302
Email: aegajewska@gmail.com
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Artist: Jennifer Robinson
Jennifer began this adventure of candle-making in 2024 at home in Petrolia. Unhappy with the larger name brand candle maker's seasonal scent catalogues, she set out to create a fun mix of sophisticated and whimsical offerings, using natural plant-based soy wax and fragrance oils from Canadian-owned suppliers in Ontario, hand poured in small batches in my home studio. Scent your space with joy year round with Silver Dagger Candle Co.!
Email: studio.silverdagger@gmail.com
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Artist: Joanne Keen
Joanne is a self taught artist who started Gelli Plate mono printing and collage in 2020 during the Covid19 lockdown. Prior to that she was an accomplished seamstress designing and selling bags and totes using mainly recycled fabrics. She has always loved multicoloured patterns and styles since seeing her Amma's handmade quilts as a toddler. Joanne captures a whimsical, colourful, folk art style in her creations. Her cheerful, happy art makes everyone smile!
Phone: 519-860-3623
Email: jkeen008@gmail.com
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Artist: Savanna Smyth
Smyth Candle Co. is a small, locally owned business founded by Savanna, specializing in hand-poured candles, wax melts, and home fragrance products made in small batches using natural soy wax. Each product is thoughtfully crafted to bring warmth, comfort, and a touch of everyday luxury into your space, with carefully curated scents designed to create lasting memories.
Savanna is passionate about creating unique, high-quality products while continually expanding her collection to offer something special for every season and occasion. From best-selling signature scents to custom creations, Smyth Candle Co. has quickly become a favorite among customers who appreciate both quality and creativity.
In addition to running her growing business, Savanna is also a licensed realtor, dedicated to helping clients find a place to call home?making her work all about creating comfort, whether through scent or space.
Phone: (519) 330-5286
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Artist: Chloe Brooks
I started Snuggle Me Designs 5 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter Jordyn. I wanted to be able to make her a blanket so I took sewing lessons and it just grew from there. I started with only offering bunny loveys and blankets then added on even more baby and kid items. I just released clothing this year including grow with me sweaters & joggers, rompers, skirts and shorts. I offer custom orders with just about any fabric you can imagine. Embroidery is also available on all my items. I never imagined my little hobby would grow into this huge business that it is now where I ship all over Canada and the US. I look forward to meeting everyone at Art in the Park this summer and showing you all my wonderful items.
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Artist: Dave McCullough
Phone: 519-868-6280
Email: davemccullough477@gmail.com
July 10 - 11
Artist: Susan Perry
Susan Perry is a Petrolia artist who draws her inspiration from nature and the local landscape. Susan is a printmaker who works primarily with linoleum and hand prints small editions of prints. As well as limited edition prints, Susan has original colour studies and art cards available for purchase.
Email: susanperryart@gmail.com
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Maria Guadaloupe Cervantes
I was born and raised in Mexico City, where I completed my Business degree at the University of Mexico. Afterwards I started working in the Banking Industry, but my passion always laid in design coming from an Artisan family for generations. After I moved to Puerto Vallarta, I met my husband, got married and immigrated to Canada and started my new life and finally followed my dreams.
My design/crafting venture began in my artisan's workshop in Campbellville, Ontario in 2003. Now, it has become a family business, my husband who retired last year is now is helping me full time with the production, logistics, sales of my small company. I pride myself in working with quality, sustainable, vintage and organic eco-friendly products to recycle and produce my personally designed textiles mixing natural fabrics with contemporary elements. I love working with different textures to make my creations, and my goal is to create products that are useful in everyday life.
We produce in small quantities and sell to some specialty stores across Canada through the TGF show, the rest of our entire production goes to Festivals and Craft & Art Shows. We enjoy traveling around Ontario to promote our products at some of the following: Muskoka Art and Craft Show, Hand Made Market in St. Catherine (Spring, Fall & Christmas), Art in the Park in Windsor, Haliburton Art & Craft Show, Artistry by the lake in Niagara on de Lake, Hand's Makers Picton, Kempenfest Art & Craft Festival in Barrie, Kingston Art Fest, Canadian National Exhibition - Arts & Crafts Building, Medford Art & Craft Show, Ball's Fall Craft Show, Signatures Craft Shows in Ottawa, Market in Calgary, One of a Kind Toronto.
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Artist: Janice Clarke
Email: thatsewcute@outlook.com
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Carrie McNorgan and Leah
We are the ones with the messy hair, the dirty feet and that wild sparkle in our eyes.
We are a Mother/Daughter gypsy duo with combined diverse and artistic talents to offer you an endless variety of artwork, self-love and bohemian style home/cottage decor. With an added beach and free-spirited flair we create some unique and original pieces that fit you or someone you know, personally.
Phone: 226-378-0208
Email: driftychicks@gmail.com
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Lizz Hubert
I am a self-taught mixed media artist. From a very young age, I used art as a way of self expression. I am inspired by the wonder of nature, my 5 children, colour and texture. I create my art in various forms, watercolour, acrylic painting and pyrography. I am originally from the GTA, however I have resided in beautiful Camlachie for 13 years. I take tremendous pride in my work, and put my heart, love and soul into everything I create.
Phone: 226-402-3858
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Brian Houf
Using traditional tools and techniques, I strive to make beautiful and useful wooden objects for the home. The wood I use is locally sourced from trees that homeowners have recently had cut down in and around my hometown of Corunna. I work the wood "green" before it is seasoned, as this allows me to shape the wood much more easily with my tools, including my homemade foot-powered wood lathe. As the pieces dry, they often warp and shift in unpredictable ways, giving each piece a uniqueness that I would not be able to achieve in dried or seasoned wood. Although some may regard my bowls and spoons as art, they are made to be used daily in the home and provide their users with years of enjoyment and satisfaction.
Email: b_houf@yahoo.ca
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Mary-Ellen Dion and Peggy Mulvihill
After a long absence from the crafting community, I'm delighted to be back with handmade vintage birdhouses for decoration and for birds to call home.
My husband and I wanted to find something to do during the beginning of the pandemic. This is what we decided on, not knowing at the time, the popularity of the birdhouses would rekindle my craft show days.
My husband is the builder and I help decorate with the repurposed decor, each being uniquely one-of-a-kind. Hunting for the perfect antique/vintage items have been fun travels all around southern Ontario.
We hope you all enjoy the birdhouses we've created!
Phone: 519-330-8114
Email: ddmeds35@cogeco.ca
July 10 - 11
Artist: Cheryl Laakes
Cheryl has been designing textiles and jewellery for over thirty years. Largely self-taught, she works in a myriad of fibres, semi-precious stones, crystals, glass, silk, wire, yarn, and fabri. Exploring the boundaries of techniques and adapting methods from other media to create truly unique pieces, Cheryl's work is one of a kind.
Versed in techniques from spinning, tatting, embroidery, knitting, crochet, beading, wire working, pottery, clay sculpture, sketching, portraiture, smocking, card-weaving, macrame, polymer clay, batik, sewing, and quilting, Cheryl combines multiple strategies to coalesce into a single work. Often her pieces are the wondrous and functional results of experimenting with colour, texture, and technique combining.
From classically elegant jewellery in semi-precious stones and sterling silver, to intricate beaded statement necklaces; from framed fibre collage to embroidery; from silk art to scarves and and knitted scarves that warm body and soul, Cheryl's pieces are reminiscent of both the geometrically simple and the organically mesmerising.
Currently Cheryl resides in Sarnia with her talented husband, Lars, and two cats.
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Thomas
Thomas, the young entrepreneur behind Toys By Thomas, began his journey into the world of 3D printing in 2020. At just 12 years old, his passion for this innovative technology started when he received his first 3D printer as a Christmas gift. Thomas had already spent countless hours researching 3D printing on the internet, and he was eager to bring his ideas to life. Thomas decided to showcase some of his custom prints at one of the local craft markets where his mom was a vendor. To his delight, his creations were a hit! This success motivated him to continue pursuing his newfound hobby, and for the past two summers, Thomas has been a regular at various markets, selling his unique 3D printed toys and items.
Email: sandra_tags@hotmail.com
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July 10 - 11
Artist: William Baines
William Baines is a Sarnia based photographer who dates his interest in photography back to his youth and his first Kodak camera. Becoming more captivated in the art as time passed and the founding of WH Baines Photographic Art in 2014. Bill's subjects cross a wide variety of genre including wildlife, environmental, landscape and still life among others.
Bill's work is available as frame ready matted prints, framed fine art prints, canvases and note cards. Have an idea for a print? Reach out to WH Baines Photographic Art to enquire about a commissioned piece.
Email: wbaines@cogeco.ca
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Andrea Sutton
Andrea Sutton of Willow Creek Candle Co. resides in Wyoming On. with her husband and two children.
Andrea is a graduate of Sheridan College Art Fundamentals program and was a student of Georgian College Fine Arts program.
With a love of all things vintage/antique, Andrea combined her thrifting addiction and her passion for candle making, into beautiful one of a kind glass candles.
These candles are made with 100% soy wax, organic essential oils, crystals and dried flowers/ herbs. When lit, these candles dazzle with refracted light and calming beauty!
Email: Andrearose80@hotmail.com
July 10 - 11
Artist: Jerzy Olszewski
I love to work with wood. This is not only my hobby but also a passion. The wood I choose for my vessels is useless for a typical woodworker , usually tree roots or rotten wood pieces . They have unusual shapes and they are decorative in very different ways . When I put them together they surprise me after turning. Using the multicolor resin I give them a very unique decorative value .
For my turnings I use selected tree roots or rotten pieces of tree casting them in slow curing multi color resin . But I am trying not to limit myself to those . Anything I can put on the machine and bring decorative value is good . I also make tables using cross cuts of tree trunks and thicker branches, filling gaps between them with resin.
Phone: (403) 826-4880
Email: olszewski.jerzy53@gmail.com
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Artist: Shelley Wilson
Six years ago after looking at designs and prices of wreaths, I decided to make my own for my dad's gravesite. People started asking if I would make one for their loved one...hence my small home based business started.
Every handcrafted wreath and centrepiece I design are different, other than my "best seller" sunflowers. I love what I do and more importantly, love to see the smiles on people's faces when their wreaths or centrepieces are delivered and hung.
Custom orders are always welcome! Tell me your colour scheme and let me design something especially for you.
I attend many local craft events in and around Lambton County all year so I am easy to find.
Phone: 519-383-4416
Email: swilson1838@gmail.com
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Artist: Yana Pokusaeva
Email: y.p.studio@outlook.com
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July 10 - 11
Artist: Sandra Bailey
Yemaya Natural Products has been handcrafting all-natural body care since 1996, offering safe, effective remedies made with ingredients we grow, wild-harvest, or source from trusted local partners. Rooted in a deep connection to nature, we focus on supporting everyday wellness with herbal first aid, bath and body care, and a gentle mom and baby line. From our treatment-free apiary to our crystal-infused gardens and horizontal beehives, every step reflects our commitment to sustainability and holistic healing. Our mission is simple: to offer clean, conscious products that truly care for people and the planet.
Phone: 519-328-8802
Email: yemayasb@hotmail.com
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