Community Artist Hub

Peterborough Public Library

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This popup space features local artists and makers working across a range of media and styles:

Cathy Allen is a Peterborough based ceramic artist and a founding member of the Kawartha Potters Guild. Working primarily with wheel-thrown pottery, she uses sgraffito, monoprinting, and slip-transfer techniques to create colourful and intricately detailed surfaces. Inspired by her travels and the natural world, Cathy carves through layers of coloured clay to reveal wildlife and landscape imagery. Her work combines beauty and function, creating decorative pottery designed to enhance everyday life.

Elizabeth Popham returned to the visual arts after a career teaching Renaissance and Canadian literature in Alberta, Arizona, Newfoundland, and most recently at Trent University in Peterborough. Working primarily in acrylic paint, pen and ink, and photography, she often creates work in series while exploring new subjects, techniques, and media. Whether creating botanical studies, portraits, landscapes, or abstract works, Elizabeth is drawn to the elegance of shape and line. A largely self-taught artist, she credits much of her artistic development to the creative communities of Peterborough and the Kawarthas, including Meta4 Contemporary Craft Gallery, Studio 201, A Place for the Arts, and the Art Gallery of Peterborough.

Ken Prescott is a Canadian artist whose career has spanned graphic design, advertising, and fine art. Educated at Danforth Technical School in Toronto, he worked as an advertising designer, art director, and freelance graphic designer while travelling extensively throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Bahamas. Now based on Belmont Lake near Havelock, Ken works primarily in collage. Using hand-painted papers rich in colour, texture, and pattern, he builds layered compositions that combine spontaneity with careful craftsmanship. His work is held in more than 100 corporate and private collections, including Vancouver International Airport.

Cathy Allen
Owl Mugs, 2025
stoneware wheelthrown, sgraffito, handcarved and painted ceramic

Elizabeth Popham
Royal Purple, 2025
acrylic
24" x 20"

Ken Prescott
Algonquin Lake, 2026
acrylic collage
20" x 16"

Elizabeth Popham
Hawthorn Berries, 2025
acrylics
24" x 36"

A vibrant collage of an orange butterfly with black and white markings perched on a bright yellow flower against a bold blue background by the artist Ken Prescott

Ken Prescott
Soft Landing, 2025
Acrylic Collage
32" x 34

Ceramic vessels feature colorful floral patterns with red, yellow, and green details on a textured, swirling black and white background, conveying a vibrant, artistic feel.

Cathy Allen
Tulipa series, stoneware, wheelthrown, handcarved and painted ceramic

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Ann Shier
Ann Way-Nee
Annette Vlieg
Art Gallery of Peterborough
Beverly MacRae
Cathy Ogrodnik
Cathy Stalkie
Chantel Stovell
Christy Haldane
Cydnee Hosker
David Hickey
Don Clark
Doug Andrews
Em Farquhar-Barrie
Faye Jacobs
Garrett Gilbart
Heather Doughty
Holly Edwards
Jeffrey Macklin
John Climenhage
Karyne McKnight
Kay Gregg
Kim Beavis Sanderson
Laura Madera
Leanne Baird
Lesley & Al Kroach
Lucie Lemieux-Wilson
Lucy Manley
Lynda Cunningham
Mark Hinan
Mary McLoughlin
Mary-Anne Johnston
Nan Sidler
Nick Leniuk
Patrick Fitzgerald
Paul Chester
Paul Nabuurs
Sandra Beange & Barbara Sorensen
Sheldon Storey
Stan Olthuis
Stephanie Ford Forrester
Sylvie Dumas
Thomas Aitken & Kate Hyde
Tina Fridgen
Tricia vanOostveen
Vince Way-Nee
Wendy Trusler

Community Artist Hub
Peterborough Public Library

345 Aylmer Street N
Peterborough, ON

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Ann Shier
Encaustic & Mixed Media

46 Queen Street (upper unit)
Lakefield, ON

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