Headwaters Arts

the art beat of rural Ontario

Our Current Show: DECONSTRUCTED NATURE

Deconstructed Nature

featuring four artists:

Kareen Hague ~ Cindy Yan Lam ~ Lori Fonger ~ Leah Olsen-Kent

Meet the Artists  Reception
November 1, 2025
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Headwaters Arts Gallery is pleased to present a Headwaters Arts member, group show featuring four contemporary landscape artists, sharing their interpretations of nature through various mediums. Artists Kareen Hague, Cindy Lam, Lori Fonger and Leah Olsen-Kent reflect on the significance of being in nature for the development of their work. The over 90 works of art depict the artists deep connection and unique interpretations they have to the landscapes they explore. The diverse use of mediums including oil, paper, by each of these painters, transport the viewer into works that are filled with texture, colour and movement.

Kareen’s art captures the essence of realism with an impressionistic touch. She covers her canvas with paper and mediums creating an unexpected textural surface to capture the many layers of colour. “ I draw inspiration from the graceful lines of birch trees, our many lakes, the charm of field flowers, and the vastness of roadside landscapes”, says Kareen from Markham.

Leah Olsen-Kent’s paintings exploration of a moment, a fragment in time cherished and explored. Through layers of spray paint, oil paint, and foraged plant material she creates intricate compositions that emphasize the delicate interplay of light and shadow. “My process is deeply intuitive, reflecting both the structured patterns of nature and its unpredictable spontaneity”, says Leah from Cambridge.

Lori Fonger is a self-taught artist from Toronto, Ontario. “My artwork aims to provide this same sense of peacefulness and escape. As a result, the colour palette is simplified with a monochromatic colour scheme and subtle shifts in values to keep that sense of peacefulness as well as provide perspective”, says Fonger.

Cindy Yan Lam uses methods of hand papermaking and stitching in a process driven practice to explore themes of slowness, regeneration and the passage of time. “My work aims to counter the frenetic pace of our highly digitized age where faster is often deemed better. In an era filled with fleeting boisterous digital images, I believe paper’s slowness, tactility and permanence enables reprieve”, says Cindy from Toronto.

The artists will be in the Gallery on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

You can view the pieces in the show in the slideshow below. Click on the Cart to purchase online using a credit card. Curbside pickup at the Alton Mill can be arranged by contacting the Headwaters Gallery at 519-943-1149 or by email info@headwatersarts.org.

Headwaters Arts gratefully acknowledges the support of our  Funders and many  Supporters

Town of Caledon
Central Counties Tourism
Dufferin Country
Dufferin Country
James Dick Construction

We acknowledge that the land on which we gather, and on which the Region of Peel operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular we acknowledge the territory of the Ani-shinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.