Outside of the Box

Helma shelved her early career’s work. Her imagery in the past twenty years was dedicated to the water landscape and the large water birds. In the blink of an eye she began to explore the universe and left her representational art style behind.

JoAnne Gullachsen’s interest in art at a young age led her to entering into The Interlake Juried Art Show later in life where she obtained a first and second place award. Her work was then featured at the National Gallery in Ottawa in 1988 and a solo exhibition at Mayberry gallery in Winnipeg in 2011. Her show was written about in the arts section of the Winnipeg Free Press, “Never too Late to Paint”.

Julia Penny creates in her studio daily as a trained graphic designer artist. Her subjects are portraits – even as landscapes, still life, faces and figures. She is collected nationally and internationally with her portrait commissions being a mainstay of her art practice. She has participated in the WAVE Art Tour and numerous solo and duo shows in Selkirk, Winnipeg, and Regina. She has published a book of portraits and biographies called “From All Walks of Life”.

Helma immigrated to Winnipeg in 1966 from Germany. She moved to Winnipeg Beach in the Manitoba Interlake over 20 years ago. She creates, in the lee of the prevailing lake gusts, visuals of the marsh and lake landscape and writes poems and stories. She has undertaken many projects, one of which was the ambitious documentation of large waterbirds in the Interlake landscape with a Manitoba Arts Council major arts grant. She is also an award winning poet.