An Artistic Family

June 22, 2008  Shoreline Artists' Tour

Finlay Ferguson, youngest artist on the Tour

One is an architect and other is a data base administrator, but Allan and Anna Ferguson have something in common besides being husband and wife.  They are both artists.

Anna Claudette Ferguson with her whimsical art

"I've been drawing houses since I was little," says Anna Ferguson, "so it seemed natural for me to become an architect.  I went to the University of Waterloo and then studied in Rome.  My art is what I would term whimsical.  It represents real places and things but often without the reality, except when I work on a commissioned piece such as someone's home.

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 I work in acrylics, pen and ink and, of course, watercolours  One of the things I've recently become interested in is murals and have been commissioned to paint a number of them on public utility receptacles."

Allan Ferguson's unusual gigantic photography

Allan Ferguson has also derived an unusual art form through photography.  "I take photos of unusual things such as flowers or plants and then I have them blown up in a very exaggerated size and then printed with specific inks on a specialized canvas.  It's somewhat unique but I like the way the colours stay vivid against the texture of the canvas."

Last but not least, is their son Finlay who, at five years old, created a self-portrait.  Now, at seven, he is going to take a stop-animation computer course at Thinnox in Toronto.  It's a curriculum that his father helped develop.

All three recently exhibited their works in the annual Shoreline Artists Tour in Southampton and Finlay was the youngest exhibitor on the tour.

The Fergusons can be reached at annaclaudette@gmail.com