A community for Catholic creators

Hugh Edmund is a Catholic singer-songwriter living and working in Ontario. He has a passion for music, art, and writing and was introduced to the liberal arts during his teenage years. Inspired by the idea of sharing the faith through the good, the true, and the beautiful, Hugh has since taught, performed, and written music as a Catholic artist. Although his work is not always explicitly religious, it seeks to reveal the goodness of God within the world.

Hugh Edmund, Musician

Julia Krikorian studied Media and Communications at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College and Redeemer University. She is a photographer and visual artist whose work has taken her across Europe and North America. Based in Toronto, Julia works with clients and collaborators worldwide.

Julia Krikorian, Photographer and Visual Artist

Sonia Laposi studied English Literature and Drama at the University of Waterloo, followed by Rhetoric and Experimental Digital Media. She also holds an MLitt in Playwriting and Screenwriting from the University of St Andrews. Sonia is a writer, songwriter, and visual artist. She recently wrote and directed a vampire musical and is currently working on her first EP.

Sonia Laposi, Writer and Visual Artist

Hannah O’Brien is a visual artist working primarily in watercolour and oil paint. She is also a novice violinist. After studying at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, she pursued classical sacred art at the Sacred Art School of Florence. Her interests include art history, curation, and the preservation of sacred art.

Hannah O’Brien, Visual Artist

Joseph Ferrant is a freelance illustrator and painter with more than fifteen years of experience in commissioned work. He attended Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College before earning a bachelor’s degree in English and Theatre from Redeemer University in 2015. He later studied at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto. His work includes religious commissions, short-film storyboards, and book illustrations. Although he primarily works in oils, he also uses watercolour, acrylic, graphite, pen and ink, pastel, and digital media. Joseph lives in the Madawaska Valley, Ontario.

Joseph Ferrant, Illustrator and Painter

Nicholas De Castro is a Catholic visual artist, youth minister, and singer-songwriter based in North York, Toronto. He is completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Education at York University while serving in parish and chaplaincy ministry. A profound encounter with Christ in the Eucharist during a high school retreat shaped his understanding of beauty as not merely an idea, but a person: Jesus Christ. Rooted in prayer and his experience in ministry, Nicholas’s artwork reflects the movements of his heart and the ways he encounters God at work in his life. Although trained as a painter, he has recently developed a strong interest in printmaking. Through his art, Nicholas seeks to glorify God and draw others toward heaven.

Nicholas De Castro, Visual Artist

Ikranrin (IJ) Makan is a Catholic iconographer based in Ottawa. He creates oil paintings on canvas and wood panels for private devotion and religious communities. He holds a master’s degree in Philosophy and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Biblical Studies, and Theology. A convert to Catholicism, IJ was drawn to the Church in part through icons, in which he encountered philosophy, theology, and art united as a single vocation. He began painting icons in 2024 and is largely self-taught, having immersed himself in the history, theology, and techniques of the tradition. His work reflects the mystery of the Incarnation and explores the icon as a threshold between the visible and the invisible.

Ikranrin (IJ) Makan, Iconographer

Joshua Terpstra is a Catholic visual artist and teacher based in Ottawa. Inspired by the traditions of iconography and Art Nouveau, his work explores the beauty of Christ and the saints, sacred symbolism, and, more recently, narrative scenes drawn from popular stories. Although he works primarily in digital media, Joshua also enjoys pastels and other traditional media.

Joshua Terpstra, Visual Artist