Faculty at Artbarn School


Ray Chan, BFA
Ray Chan is a Toronto based illustrator, and author of several self-published graphic novels. He is currently working as a concept artist at Toronto based video game company, Vast Studios. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, majoring in illustration.  His work has been appeared in several publications including 3x3 magazine’s 4th illustration annual. As a teacher he enjoys showing students of any age the fun and expressive nature of cartoon storytelling and drawing, as well as the various ways to express the individual stories each person has hidden inside them
www.illustraytion.com
www.ethereal-mind.deviantart.com


Barbara Hotson, Honours B.A. and M.A.
Barbara is a visual artist endlessly challenged and intrigued by the interaction of water, pigment and paper. According to her it is the unpredictability of the medium of watercolour that keeps her hooked! She spends time thinking and planning and drawing a piece and then has to let go of control as she paints. The suspended particles of pigment in the water create a blend all their own on the paper. She feels as if she is merely the facilitator. Barbara paints in series which arise out of what is concerning her at the time.
Country Roads reflect the landscape near their farm up north near Thornbury.
Beaches mirror her love of the ocean and the spaces beside it.
Gates is about the transitions in our lives.

She exhibits at the Autumn Leaves studio tour and many other venues in Toronto, Collingwood and Florida.

Her paintings have been called “luminous, iridescent, and magical”!
www3.sympatico.ca/hotson


Julie Hill, Honours B.A.,Montessori Teaching Certificate
Julie began her teaching career after completing her Montessori training from the Toronto Montessori Institute (1993-1994). She taught at Markville Montessori School from 1994 to 1997 and then opened her home-based pre-school program in the Eglinton Avenue and Avenue Road area which she still operates today. Her involvement with Artbarn School included Board of Directors responsibilities and now is excited to be teaching children’s classes at Artbarn. Through taking many adult classes at Artbarn School, she is now herself an emerging artist and enjoys showing her work in various local art events.
www.landscapesbyjulie.com


Marianna Kotyk, B.Mus. (Dalcroze Eurhythmics)
Marianna received her training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics at Laval University and continued Dalcroze studies at Longy School of Music and Carnegie Mellon University. Teaching in English and French she enjoys adapting Dalcroze work to various settings. Through the Royal Conservatory Marianna has been teaching children in the RDP, Suzuki and Outreach classes across the city. She teaches adults at the Royal Conservatory in the Early Childhood Music Education Teacher Training Programme. Her interest in poetry has led her to incorporate this art form into her classes. Marianna is the founder of the Plastique Animee Working Group and co-editor of Being Music, Journal of The Canadian Dalcroze Society. She has accompanied dance and storytelling with the ‘cello, sung with the Niagara Chorus and danced in the SGI Chinese Dance group. She has volunteered with and conducted the SGI Children’s group and loves to garden with her fellow South Maples Courtyard gardeners.
Dalcroze Journal


Jacquelyn Sloane Siklos, B.A., BFA
Jacquelyn Sloane Siklos graduated in Graphic Design and Illustration from the Ontario College of Art and Design after receiving a B.A. in Fine Art and Art History from the University of Toronto. She worked as a graphic designer for a number of years before establishing her full-time professional art practice in 2006. Her work has been selected in several juried exhibitions—most recently she had a piece selected for 12 12 Gallery 's National Juried Photography Exhibition 2009, in Richmond, Virginia - Coming Home at the Toronto International Airport—and included in Digital Camera and Applied Arts magazines. Her work is available at Canvas Gallery, Toronto. She is a member of Visual Arts Ontario.
www.sloanesiklos.com


Nancy Joy Wilson
www.nancyjoywilson.com