About Us
Muskoka Printmaker Collective
Our Story
The Muskoka Printmaker Collective was founded by Karen Gray, Dawn Huddlestone, Christina MacBean, and Elise Muller in 2024. One of their first Collective undertakings was the first Big Muskoka Print, a large-scale printmaking event where they print extra-large woodcuts that take months to carve. Instead of a traditional printing press, they use a lawn roller weighing approximately 900 pounds! They have since demonstrated this process at Nuit Blanche North in 2024.
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In 2025, the Muskoka Printmaker Collective expanded to welcome other local printmakers to the group. An Open House event was held at Elise's studio, Stone Tree Studio, in Lake of Bays where some of the members met to share their work and do some printmaking. The debut show featuring these artists is at the Huntsville Public Library from December 2, 2025 until February 2, 2026. The "Roll with it" show will also include a talk featuring four of the artists, Dana Aubrey, Andrea McCallum, Elise Muller, and Sasha Rae Pringle on January 12, 2026 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm and anyone is welcome to attend.
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While each of the artists in the Collective has their own individual art practice, printmaking is meant to be a community medium. Having other artists to share ideas for processes, materials, and resources is a wonderful thing to have here in Muskoka!
Meet the Artists
The Muskoka Printmaker Collective is a group of artists from various backgrounds who have connected through the medium of printmaking here in Muskoka.
Founding Member
Elise Muller
Elise Muller creates with Ink/Stone/Metal at Stone Tree Studio near Dorset. She works part-time at Haliburton School of Art + Design as an instructor and technician. Her prints are primarily Relief Prints carved in wood or lino.
Founding Member
Dawn Huddlestone
Dawn Huddlestone is a printmaker with a particular interest in alternative processes, historical techniques, and the ways in which art and nature can interact. A writer, editor, and biologist by training, Dawn extends her love for storytelling, science, and the natural world to her artwork. Her practice includes cyanotype, lumen prints, foil lithography, linocut, and woodcut relief printmaking.
Collective Member
Dana Aubrey
Dana Aubrey is a letterpress artist, stationery designer, and decorative printer based in Muskoka, Canada. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts era of letterpress, she aspires to rekindle the unique gift of intimate connection and illuminate the timeless artistry of letterpress printing. Her imagery comprises early 20th-century metal and wood type, ornamental border elements, flourishes, and block art. She is a graduate of the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly ACAD) with a bachelor’s degree in design. She also studied illustration and printmaking in Scotland at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Before creating Penships, Dana worked as a graphic designer and art director for over two decades. She is a member of the Huntsville Art Society, the Letterpress League of Canada, and the Muskoka Printmaker Collective.
Collective Member
Sasha Rae Pringle
Sasha is a mixed media artist and book-binder. She enjoys teaching creative workshops for all ages. She makes her art and her home with her family near Silver Lake in Gravenhurst.
Collective Member
Pat Whittle
Pat Whittle is a mixed media artist in Muskoka favouring encaustic painting and printmaking.
Founding Member
Christina MacBean
Printmaker and oil painter Christina MacBean draws inspiration from the natural world, creating work that challenges how we see and invites discovery. Her practice blends concept and exploration to open new ways of looking
Founding Member
Karen Gray
​Karen currently operates The Potter’s Studio & Gallery in downtown Huntsville and creates pottery using a carving technique called Sgraffito. It is often said, Sgraffito is the ceramic version of wood block carving. This technique expanded Karen’s artistic expression to wood block carving in the winter of 2023. With assistance from Muskoka Printmakers Collective, Karen has created limited quantity of prints from her carved wood blocks.
Collective Member
Christa Boothby-Raisbeck
Christa Boothby-Raisbeck is a painter as well as a printmaker. Much of Christa’s images explore an inner landscape, where relationship with the natural world is an essential reflection. Christa will donate 50% of the proceeds from her prints to Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, as giving back to nature provides impetus for her work.
Collective Member
Andrea McCallum
Andrea McCallum is a printmaker working primarily in drypoint, linocut, and mezzotint processes. She explores the intersection of place, memory, and the natural world by choosing the medium that best reflects the character of the landscape or inspired vignette.
Collective Member
Paul Ferris
Paul Ferris is a local artist and retired art teacher working in a number of different media.
See Paul's work on Instagram