Elaine Wilson was born on the west coast of Scotland and immigrated to Canada when she was 9, living there the next 8 years in a small town north of Toronto. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art, Â Elaine began work at a small design firm and worked her way up from there. Learning how to design and produce graphics such as letterheads, advertisements and printed piece layouts for interior and exterior design in Toronto.
After leaving a job at an art studio in Toronto Elaine took a trip to the east coast of Canada where she came across St. Andrews and now resides here permanently. Since then she has remained involved in the restaurant business and designs shapes, textures, colours and tastes for plates and menus. Elaine retains her love of graphics and does free lance work when time permits. She can be seen about town carrying her tiny paint box and messing around in tidal pools.
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Ted Michener was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1941. He has painted since he was 8 years old, but his fine arts training consisted of six summers (as a teen-ager) at the Doon School of Fine Art near Kitchener, Ontario. He worked in various jobs including at the Stelco Steel Company which convinced him to pursue an alternative vocation. He then enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto in 1964. Upon graduation he worked many free-lanced jobs in Toronto and through his agent, Mendola Ltd. in New York, did countless advertising agency assignments. His illustrations and editorial cartoons appeared in and on the covers of T.V. Guide, The Globe & Mail, Macleans Magazine, The Financial Times, The Hamilton Spectator and The Toronto Star. Shortly after 1990 he moved to St. Andrews. He now has a beautiful barn-studio right on the ocean in the town.