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Signe Langford
Artist Info
From Hudson, Quebec, via Toronto, now living in Port Hope, Ontario, Signe is a restaurant chef-
turned-writer who tells award-winning stories and creates delicious recipes for such publications
as: Watershed, Harrowsmith, The Toronto Star, Hobby Farms, and more. Her award-winning
book – Happy Hens & Fresh Eggs; Keeping Chickens in the Kitchen Garden with 100 Recipes –
was published in 2015. Her first love is art; always has been, but life got in the way, and for
many years, she did what she had to to support herself.
She studied Fine Arts at Dawson College in Montreal, Art History and Humanities at the
University of Toronto and York University; graduated with honours from OCAD University; and
earned her Wine Specialist Certificate from George Brown College.
Now, she’s making time for art again – and showing – as well as her side hustles such as:
pottery, photography, private dining, working on a second book, and running the Port Hope
Market in Memorial Park.
She is a member of Spirit of the Hills and BACC.
For more please visit www.signelangford.com and @signelangford64
About the Curator
Maddi Snowden is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based out of Grafton's Cherry Hill Studio. She is part of Alchimista as the resident artist, curator, graphic designer, illustrator, and keen coffee drinker.
Her work is in series, choosing and exploring a style and subject matter, experimenting through repetition. For florals, she works without references, aiming to create the impression of being immersed in a spring garden without specifically indicating which species are on display. When painting wildlife, colours are heightened and creatures imbued with character. When painting still life, work is done predominantly with a palette knife to sculpt the image out of the canvas. Most pieces are done in heavy acrylics with lots of sculptural medium to model thick, drippy images that have literal and visual depth. The goal is to produce impressionistic pieces that evoke the feelings that arise from taking the time to look closely at the vivid spaces around us.
Maddi's work is regularly on display on the walls of the cafe, and she curates guest artists to fill the community wall on a monthly basis.
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