Biographies > Faye Digulla

Faye Digulla is a visual artist working in printmaking, painting and drawing. Her works are frequently enigmatic and highly personal interpretations. She works from her printmaking studio, North Point Press in Haileybury. Her art is becoming widely known both in northern Ontario and further afield, and is presented by the Open Door Studio in Toronto.

Faye has been interested in art since a teenager. She was born and raised in Englehart, moving south after high school. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and later received a Fine Arts degree from the University of Waterloo. She won a scholarship from Open Studio in Toronto and there worked alongside many notable printmaking artists. It was here that she finally had the opportunity to devote her time to the art she loved. Faye also gained valuable experience as an assistant for several years to printer Stu Oxley in Elora.

In describing her recent exhibition shown at TAG and the Kennedy Gallery, Ten Thousand Doors she says, “With these works I have expanded upon the rich symbolism of doors to suggest one’s travel though life. Doors are physical and symbolic barriers or entrances to worlds. Doors both conceal and reveal.” Walk Inside Yourself and Then Listen, comes from this body of work.

Being an artist in northern Ontario. Here I miss not having ready access to galleries and the excitement and stimulus of regularly seeing contemporary artworks that helped evolve my art and created a more natural flow. I find I have to constantly and consciously keep pushing boundaries.