Carol Wainio

Her work, known for its visual complexity and monochrome color palette, has been exhibited in major art galleries in Canada, the U.S., Europe and China.

Wainio studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and at the University of Toronto and later completed a Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

Her paintings often reference a variety of sources from fairy tales, medieval manuscripts to the 2008 financial collapse.

[5] Wainio's canvases have been described by art critic Emily Falvey as "fairy-tale landscapes littered with the detritus of contemporary consumerism.

This exhibition displays Wainio's interest in the evolution of fairy-tales, the art of the copyist, industrialization, and the narrative power of images.

Wainio's Season's End (2012) on display at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery as part of the 2016 exhibition Stilled Lives: Works from the Permanent Collection.