Biographies > Eleanor Huff

Eleanor captures the feeling of the scenery of Northern Ontario in impressionistic paintings and is comfortable with a variety of media: watercolour (Mine Shaft (The Old Timer) in the collection), gouache, collage, acrylic, ink or oil. Mainly self-taught, her work now hangs in private and corporate collections in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Europe and the United States.

For many years, she and her husband Tom owned and operated a small commercial gallery and framing business in Haileybury.  Although retiring from this several years ago, she actively continues to pursue her art and participate in the local arts community.  She has always been an avid supporter of culture in northeastern Ontario. As a member of the Haileybury Library Board and artist, she was one of the charter members of the Temiskaming Art Gallery. Eleanor is a member of the Northern Ontario Artists Association, Visual Arts Ontario, Sudbury Craft and Art Foundation, the Temiskaming Palette and Brush Club, and was a director of the Temiskaming Art Gallery Board. She has been exhibiting and entering competitions with her work since 1985. Her work has been chosen for several juried exhibitions such NOAA’s and selected in the Temiskaming Art Gallery annual calendar competition.

Being an artist in northern Ontario. As a true northerner born and bred, I love the wonder of our beautiful north land.  There is not anywhere else that I feel the same joy.