10th Anniversary


“I saw the angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free."
— Michelangelo
Fiona Hoop

Mary Kennedy graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1989 and received OCAD’s Experimental Arts Award in Painting. Since then, she has been the recipient of several Visual Arts Grants from the Ontario Arts Council, as well as from the Shiela Dick Mackay Arts Foundation.

Miss Kennedy has shown with such galleries as Bau-Xi in Toronto and Lis Shayne Galleries in Montreal. Several group and solo showings have been appointed by the esteemed Christopher Curts Gallery in Toronto, often selling out completed works on paper or canvas within a few days of opening.

She has juried the University of Toronto Student Exhibits & Grant Awards, been featured on WTN Network’s “Bella” Productions, and has appeared in campaigns for Nokia Cellular’s “Connecting People” series.

Mary’s work may be found in corporate collections at The University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Hospital, Cooper Sandler & West, and Sun life Assurance Canada. International collections reside at KPMG Worldwide, Husky Sstems Gmbh, and Voorheis.

Current works are regularly sought after from private collectors in Toronto, Amsterdam and Vancouver.

Michele Woodey B.A.

Michele Woodey graduated with honors in Fine Art from Brighton School of Arts in England 1979.

While working as an antique and art restorer in London she continued her education with university courses in English, teaching English as a second language, printmaking and photography.

From 1981-1986 Michele was a part-time tutor teaching foundation level students in conceptual development, drawing and painting while continuing to develop her own art work. In 1986 Michele spent some time in New York, then eventually settled in Canada. She has had multi-disciplined experience as Joint Head of Montessori School art programs, guest lecturer and artist in resident at The Astlin School of Art and as Arts Council Artist in various other post-secondary and graduate school programs.

Michele Woodey has held solo exhibits of her work at their prestigious Nexus Gallery in Brighton England, at Erindale College within The University of Toronto, and multiple showings at the Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto.

Selected corporate collections include Zeroz Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Univeristy of Toronto. Her artwork is in private collections spanning cities form London and New York to Barcelona and Toronto.


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