Art for Peace Artists

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Farzaneh ( Freya ) is Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores human connection, memory, identity, and the ways individual stories become part of something larger. Born in Iran and now living in Canada, she is interested in the meeting points between cultures, histories, and everyday human experiences.

Working with mixed media, collage, found imagery, text, and fragments of pattern, Fay approaches materials as pieces of a larger narrative. Her process often brings together elements from different times and places, allowing historical visual languages to exist alongside contemporary personal stories.

Christopher Masoure is a Canadian contemporary painter known for atmospheric abstract landscapes that hover between memory and place.

Born into an artistic family in Toronto, Masoure began painting at an early age, following in his father’s footsteps. He later studied Fine Arts in the United States and, after years of painting alongside a career in business, committed himself fully to his studio practice in 2008.

Inspired by the shifting moods of land, water and sky, Masoure works in acrylic on canvas, building his surfaces through multiple translucent layers applied with brushes and palette knives. Horizons emerge and recede, while forms dissolve into mist, light and reflection. The resulting paintings are deliberately ambiguous: what one viewer sees as an ocean may appear to another as a distant mountain range or an endless sky.

Influenced by the atmospheric landscapes of J.M.W. Turner and the expressive freedom of the New York Expressionists, Masoure has developed a restrained visual language of his own. Meditation is an integral part of his studio practice, informing paintings that favour stillness, balance and contemplation over literal representation.

Masoure’s paintings are less about depicting a particular landscape than creating a place to enter—a quiet space where the familiar becomes uncertain and the viewer is invited to complete the journey.

MattBlack is an artist of many mediums. He is an airbrush & visual artist. He is a Kustom and OEM painter. He builds Kustom Automobiles and Lowriders. MattBlack is also a rapper with music played on terrestrial radio stations and on internet radio shows.

He draws ideas through references within Black culture. Vintage clothing, childhood memories, cartoons and anime for inspiration.

MattBlack visual art is mostly airbrushed, graffiti style using automotive paint on canvas. He also upcycles using automobile parts, and recycled wood.

Abiola Idowu is a Nigerian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in the Greater Toronto Area. Working across painting. sculpture, and mixed media, he explores themes of healing. resilience, and Yoruba heritage.

His work has been widely exhibited. & he's received multiple arts awards.

Through his banner. "Art Is Healing." Idowu presents community-focused projects and operates the Abiola Idowu Studio Art Gallery in Toronto.

Troy Smith is a Canadian artist, designer, sculptor and painter whose work bridges functional art and fine art. Rooted in four generations of artisans and craftspeople, Smith combines meticulous craftsmanship with an experimental approach to materials, form and engineering.

His furniture, sculpture and large-scale abstract paintings explore the tension between simplicity and complexity, bringing together bronze, marble, exotic woods, artisan glass, leather, rebar and semi-precious stone.

Beginning with hand-drawn concepts and refined through technical drawings and 3D development, each work becomes a distinctive expression of proportion, material and imagination. Smith's work has been exhibited internationally, collected worldwide and featured in more than 50 art and design publications.

Vidhushini Nanjappan is an abstract artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her mixed media works create three-dimensional illusions and sculptural forms from two-dimensional surfaces, blending traditional and modern techniques. Born in India, her early pieces were vivid and bold, embodying a "young and wild" spirit. As she grew artistically, her palette became more primitive, reflecting a deeper introspection.

One of her greatest strengths is her experimentation with various materials, ranging from metal wires to plaster, allowing her to push the boundaries of her art. Through this exploration, Vidhushini delves into the deeper meaning of life, expressing a profound, evolving understanding of existence.