Artists

As we launch there are still thousands in NJ, CT, NY, and NYC, suffering from the loss of family, power, homes, and livelihoods - we extend our heartfelt thoughts..... Everyone deserves a “last hit of Summer” so thanks to Great Lake Swimmers give us a new music video… Watch it now!

What happened when eight talented artisans got together and brain stormed?  A new business was formed which gave lo...

Now That We’re Here, Where Will We Stay? Some people collect postcards or stamps but my efforts  turned to acquiri...

For the first time since the Thousand Islands Playhouse was formed in 1982, a new Artistic Director has taken the reins....

There are times in one’s life when the stars seem to be in alignment and maybe this to be one of those times.  It i...

Who? George Rockwell? Never heard of him! No, it doesn’t surprise me as he flew under my radar for a while. Let me star...

Excitement is in the air! We are heading downriver on an October Saturday, cutting through the rippling waters of the St...

Temagami Island   I am in Chippewa Bay 10 miles below Alexandria Bay. Seven miles wide here and blows like hell ev...

2012 marks the 175th anniversary of the 1837/38 Upper Canadian Rebellions. This is a chapter in that story which has a F...

A.W. Bruce Sherman usually wears a cap. On it, in bold letters, is “Art Matters”, and for him it really does.  He a...

Where did it all begin? I wasn’t old enough to hold a guitar, but my Uncle Tom both played professionally and gave lessons...

I live a long way from the Thousand Islands but my quest to discover who designed my home in Worcester, Massachusetts le...

Every year, on the second Saturday in August, the members of a criminal cohort make their way by ferry to peaceful, buco...

James Churchward, who lived from 1851 to 1936,  wrote a series of books on the Lost Continent of Mu  , in whic...

One hundred years ago, 14 April 1912 the RMS Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, 1,514 perished. Consi...

The Wheelock family began selling china in Wisconsin..

Most of us go on holiday with our trusty cameras ready to capture our memories, but Robert Hedden travels with a sketch ...

When my wife, Prudence, and I began to collect, we didn’t understand or recognize the value of glass and consequently le...

Augusta Cecconi-Bates is known as a composer of operas and operettas. Her most recent operettas were not only written in the Thousand Islands, but were inspired by characters

Robert Orr, of Lemon Island in the Admiralty Islands, admits he can’t draw and that he is color blind, but his prize win...

Artist and writer Michael Ringer, gave me the opportunity to peek inside his new book… Ringer’s Mountains & Valleys Northern New York...

“I never touched a paint brush until age thirty-five,” Kelly Curry says proudly. But in the past decade, she has painted...

When the Craft School opened in 1966 there were 44 students learning the art of handweaving on looms either purchased or...

“Camp Grindstone,” written by Henry Eckford and illustrated by William Allen Rogers, appeared in the August 1885 issue o...

Karen Bockus and her friends have cooked up a creative way to give people a chance to observe professional artists at wo...

St. Lawrence Pottery located on Route 12N about  5 miles east of Clayton, features John Arnot’s ceramic art as well...

Michael Ringer almost chose “Shop” when he was in Grade 7, but his best friend suggested that the two of them sign up fo...

The Central New York winter season has become my model building time. Several models have been built for collectors...

Consistent with our mission of raising the bar, Thousand Island Life seeks to recognize exceptional quality. A new enter...

Beijing,China-Vancouver,BC-Chicago & Brockville-Clayton These are just a few of the stops on The Great Lake Swimmers’ 2010 Tour.

For the past three months, Robert L. Matthews has given our readers a unique peek at those long forgotten illustrators w...

Sherman C. Ward Jr. is one half of the dynamic duo known as Sherman & Ann. A busy man with many roles: Director, Pla...

Charles S. Graham was an itinerant, self taught sketch artist born 1852 in Illinois.

The people at the Frontenac Arch Biosphere organization recently invited Andrea Mossop to do an on-the-spot painting dur...

In the February issue of Thousand Islands Life Magazine we introduced Howard Pyle, one of North America’s premier illust...

The second in a series on illustrators of the Thousand Islands.

The early morning mist drapes...

Note:  See the complementary Article about Frank H. Taylor in this issue: Nancy L. Gustke’s “The Special Artis...

Greg Lago welcomes winter. Everyday, snowy or not, Lago makes his way to his studio on James Street “The good thing abou...

Nobody likes Jury Duty, but for Prudence Matthews, in 1992, it was life-changing. “I knew we could not talk about the t...

In 1988 I went to England to carry out research at the National Maritime Archives in Greenwich and the

A scene from a new Hollywood pirate movie? This spectacular setting on the St. Lawrence River is the backdrop for Toronto folk band Great Lake Swimmers newest music video.

Spring of 2007, we returned to Grenell Island to find a display of breath-taking paintings in the Grenell Island Communi...

"The World is a wondrous place, rich with texture, color and form, where the magic of light creates an ever changing sta...

  This month we welcome Phil Chadwick, aka "Phil the Forecaster", to TI Life, as an artist. Although he trained at ...

Patricia and Robert Mondore received good news this

  ROCKPORT - A Toronto band is using the Thousand Islands as a backdrop for its fourth album, recording in some of...

  A special thank you to Judy Wellman, Paul Malo's dear wife and special partner in life. Judy found this articl...

  The saga of navigation on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, in war and peace, is far too vast and rich a ...

Alfred Worsley Holdstock [1820?-1901] moved from England to Montreal about 1850. There he taught drawing at the National...

The major photographer of the Thousand Islands, A. C. McIntyre began taking daguerreotypes in the mid-nineteenth century...