A Milestone Year for the Headwaters Arts Fall Festival!
Our 30th Anniversary Fall Festival Breaks Records!
Headwaters Arts 2026 Fall Festival was truly a milestone celebration, setting new records in artistic recognition, prize money awarded, and artwork sales.
And what a year it was!
MORE AWARDS!
Our distinguished jurors recognized artistic excellence with four top Honour Awards and five Honourable Mentions, complemented by our Curator’s Award. That’s 10 awards celebrating the exceptional talent of our artists!
MORE PRIZE MONEY!
This year, Headwaters Arts awarded almost $5,000 in prize money — more than ever before in the Festival’s 30-year history!
MORE ARTWORK SOLD!
And perhaps our most exciting milestone of all — 14 works of art sold, generating over $20,000 in sales! That’s a new sales record for our Fall Festival and a wonderful endorsement of the remarkable artists we represent.
SOLD OUT RECORD ATTENDANCE AT OUR OPENING SOIREE!
FOUR MILESTONES. ONE EXTRAORDINARY ANNIVERSARY!
AWARD WINNING WORKS
Best in Show
Forest River
36″ x 36 ” , Acrylic
Artist : Iris Raneri
Award sponsored by Spark the Art
2nd Place
What The World Needs Now is Love
36″ x 36 ” , Acrylic and Collage
Artist : Patricia MacDonald
Award sponsored by Maria Britto of Re/Max Realty
3rd Place
Blue Silhouette Reeds
24″ x 30 ” , Acrylic and Collage
Artist : Nancy Lennon
Award sponsored by Sally Mappin
Molesworth Award for 3-dimensional work
Ringmaster
37″ x 36 ” x 17″ , Welded steel
Artist : Courtney Chard
Award sponsored by Hugh Molesworth in memory of Rosemary Molesworth
Curator's Choice
Box From Crumbl
20″ x 30 ” , Oil on canvas
Artist : Haley Marfleet
Award sponsored by the Bhatnagar Family
Honourable Mention
The Blue Kingdom
24″ x 24″ , Mixed Media
Artist : Valeria Kouznetsova
Honourable Mention
Coming of Age
24″ x 40″ , Mixed Media
Artist : Annette Dyon
Honourable Mention
Meet Me Where the Sunflowers Grow
40″ x 26″ , Mixed Media on paper
Artist : Michelle Hudson
Honourable Mention
Fruitful Morning
24″ x 36″ , Oil on Canvas
Artist : Haley Marfleet
Honourable Mention
Wild Flowers
36″ x 48″ , Acrylic on panel
Artist : Judy Willemsma
People's Choice First Place
Red October
24″h x 12″w
Mixed Media
Artist: Reg Lecky
People's Choice: 2nd Place
Where the Crane Keeps Time
26”h x 18”w
Water based markers
Artist: Christine Schubert
People's Choice: 3rd Place
The Calm Before the Falls
30″h x 24″w
Oil
Artist: Mike Shatilla
Fall Festival Sold Works
THE 2025 FALL FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS
Jurors Awards
Best in Show
Crop in the Field
36″ x 48 ” , Acrylic
Artist : Judy Willemsma
2nd Place
Love Binds
48″ x 24 ” , Oil
Artist : Andie Trepanier
3rd Place
Shades of Blue
36″ x 36 ” , Oil
Artist : Margaret Horvat
Honourable Mention
Between Field and Forest
24″ x 30″ , Oil
Artist : Piera Pugliese
Curator’s Award
Curator's Choice
Flight of Fantasy
54″ x 60 ” , Handwoven, hand dyed textile
Artist : Pat Burns-Wendland
Molesworth Award
New this year is the Molesworth Award for 3-dimensional work sponsored by the Molesworth Family in honour of one of
Headwaters outstanding potters, the late Rosemary Molesworth.
Molesworth Award for 3-dimensional work
Water Dragon
24″ x 23 ” x 14″ , Welded carbon and stainless steel
Artist : Courtney Chard
Situated in one of the key destination places in the Headwaters Region, the Headwaters Arts group enriches the artistic and cultural footprint within this extended community.
We acknowledge that the land on which we gather, and on which the Region of Peel operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular we acknowledge the territory of the Ani-shinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.