Artists
The Wheelock family began selling china in Wisconsin..
by: Robert L. Matthews
Most of us go on holiday with our trusty cameras ready to capture our memories, but Robert Hedden travels with a sketch ...
by: Susan W. Smith
When my wife, Prudence, and I began to collect, we didn’t understand or recognize the value of glass and consequently le...
by: Robert L. Matthews
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
by: Lynn E. McElfresh
Robert Orr, of Lemon Island in the Admiralty Islands, admits he can’t draw and that he is color blind, but his prize win...
by: Susan W. Smith
Artist and writer Michael Ringer, gave me the opportunity to peek inside his new book… Ringer’s Mountains & Valleys Northern New York...
by: Susan W. Smith
“I never touched a paint brush until age thirty-five,” Kelly Curry says proudly. But in the past decade, she has painted...
by: Lynn E. McElfresh
When the Craft School opened in 1966 there were 44 students learning the art of handweaving on looms either purchased or...
by: Rebecca Hopfinger
“Camp Grindstone,” written by Henry Eckford and illustrated by William Allen Rogers, appeared in the August 1885 issue o...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Karen Bockus and her friends have cooked up a creative way to give people a chance to observe professional artists at wo...
by: Liz Huff
St. Lawrence Pottery located on Route 12N about 5 miles east of Clayton, features John Arnot’s ceramic art as well...
by: Susan W. Smith
Michael Ringer almost chose “Shop” when he was in Grade 7, but his best friend suggested that the two of them sign up fo...
by: Michael Ringer and Susan Smith
The Central New York winter season has become my model building time. Several models have been built for collectors...
by: Anthony Mollica Jr.
Consistent with our mission of raising the bar, Thousand Island Life seeks to recognize exceptional quality. A new enter...
by: Susan W. Smith
Beijing,China-Vancouver,BC-Chicago & Brockville-Clayton These are just a few of the stops on The Great Lake Swimmers’ 2010 Tour.
by: Erin McCarthy Brick
For the past three months, Robert L. Matthews has given our readers a unique peek at those long forgotten illustrators w...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Sherman C. Ward Jr. is one half of the dynamic duo known as Sherman & Ann. A busy man with many roles: Director, Pla...
by: Hope Marshall
Charles S. Graham was an itinerant, self taught sketch artist born 1852 in Illinois.
by: Robert L. Matthews
The people at the Frontenac Arch Biosphere organization recently invited Andrea Mossop to do an on-the-spot painting dur...
by: Liz Huff
In the February issue of Thousand Islands Life Magazine we introduced Howard Pyle, one of North America’s premier illust...
by: Robert L. Matthews
The second in a series on illustrators of the Thousand Islands.
by: Robert L. Matthews
The early morning mist drapes...
by: Susan W. Smith
Note: See the complementary Article about Frank H. Taylor in this issue: Nancy L. Gustke’s “The Special Artis...
by: Robert L. Matthews
Greg Lago welcomes winter. Everyday, snowy or not, Lago makes his way to his studio on James Street “The good thing abou...
by: Lynn E. McElfresh
Nobody likes Jury Duty, but for Prudence Matthews, in 1992, it was life-changing.
“I knew we could not talk about the t...
by: Susan W. Smith
In 1988 I went to England to carry out research at the National Maritime Archives in Greenwich and the
by: Susan W. Smith
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.
by: Kim Lunman
Spring of 2007, we returned to Grenell Island to find a display of breath-taking paintings in the Grenell Island Communi...
by: Lynn E. McElfresh
"The World is a wondrous place, rich with texture, color and form, where the magic of light creates an ever changing sta...
by: Susan W. Smith
This month we welcome Phil Chadwick, aka "Phil the Forecaster", to TI Life, as an artist. Although he trained at ...
by: Susan W. Smith
Patricia and Robert Mondore received good news this
by: Susan W. Smith
ROCKPORT - A Toronto band is using the Thousand Islands as a backdrop for its fourth album, recording in some of...
by: Kim Lunman
A special thank you to Judy Wellman, Paul Malo's dear wife and special partner in life. Judy found this articl...
by: Paul Malo
The saga of navigation on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, in war and peace, is far too vast and rich a ...
by: Paul Malo
Alfred Worsley Holdstock [1820?-1901] moved from England to Montreal about 1850. There he taught drawing at the National...
by: Paul Malo
The major photographer of the Thousand Islands, A. C. McIntyre began taking daguerreotypes in the mid-nineteenth century...
by: Paul Malo