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Upcoming Exhibit
Pastel Quartet
This show will celebrate colour and inspiration in pastel, while presenting pastel in its many uses: landscape, still life, florals, portraits,
and narrative art, showing the versatility of the medium in its application on various surfaces.
Exhibit Dates: August 28 - September 25, 2026 | Opening Reception: August 30th, 1:00 - 3:00PM

Artist Bios

LOIS COVINGTON-FUCHS

Lois Fuchs is a pastel artist living in London, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking from the University of North Carolina. She has studied under the renowned pastel portrait artist Daniel Greene of New York, and has recently been juried into membership with the Pastel Society of America. She has worked in many mediums, but prefers the immediacy of pastels for both painting and drawing. She has worked in soft pastels for more than 40 years; her work is in private and public collections in the US, Canada, and Europe.

She is drawn to realism and the basic truth of form in space; for her this usually means the living figure. Her work in portraiture has evolved to narrative painting-- usually, but not always, involving people and animals. She works from her own photos, often taken in her travels across Canada and in Europe.

Kit Merriam Cutting

Kit Merriam Cutting was surrounded by the art of her mother and brother in her youth. After years operating her own business, the impact of her earlier experience prompted her to explore her artistic roots.

She studied with artist Fred Harrison and several local London artists. Kit followed this with teaching art to adults through the City of London, Parks and Recreation Program, which she did for 5 years. She has been a member of the Lambeth Art Association and the St. Thomas Art Guild for many years, participating in their shows and activities.

Kit was a partner in Portside Art Gallery in Port Stanley Ontario until it closed in 2019. She now shows her art at Art With Panache in London and is a working member of that gallery. Her art can be seen at Art with Panache, local art galleries in London, St. Thomas, and on Facebook.

ILONA BURGHARDT

I work predominantly in oils and soft pastels. My inspiration comes from the transformation of the natural world through light, especially when it relates to organic shapes.

The chaos and wildness of nature is where I search for much of my reference material. Fleeting patterns of light and atmospheric conditions capture my attention as they are transient, like apparitions.

Trees, water, and plants are things I seem to gravitate towards, However, fleeting light can be captured on a building or sidewalk or on the side of a face.

My plein air work is great practice for capturing these light effects and attempting to convey on canvas or paper what sparked my imagination when out on the field.

Susan Moore

Susan lives in London ON, and is a self taught artist. She has studied at Georgian College, Owen Sound, The Southampton Art School, Arts Sake School of Art, Toronto, The Ottawa School of Art, and the University of Vienna, Austria.

Susan was one of the founding members of the Visual Arts Kincardine, Kincardine ON. Susan has worked with oils and watercolour, and has now turned her interest to the medium of soft pastel. Her subjects most times are landscapes and still life. Susan finds magic in pastels by its nature; it facilitates a spontaneous application of colour. The colours are immediate and vibrant. She applies and blends with her fingers and finishes with a soft pastel to create a luminosity to her work.

Susan is a member of Pastel Artists Canada, The Gallery Painting Group, London, The Brush and Palette Club, London, and 9 Fine Artists, London. She has exhibited, sold and won many awards for her work. It’s important to her to capture the sense of movement in her work, appreciating the beauty of colour and light that nature has to offer.

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