Conservation Dinner Feature Artists
Over 34 years of Conservation Dinners, the Dinner Committee has been honoured to select 25 different, talented featured artists.
The Conservation Dinner gala charitable auction, in support of projects in local communities, by Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation and Exeter Lions Club, has been pleased to feature a noted artist each year in media ranging from hand-crafted woodwork, to metal, to ice, to culinary arts, to wine-making, to painting, to floral design and other visual arts.
Distinguished featured artists in the history of the Conservation Dinner have included:
- 2024 – Stephanie Denomme, Blush and Blossom Floral
- 2023 – Dark Horse Estate Winery Inc.
- 2022 – Diane Carson, The Electric Quilter, Exeter
- 2019 – Past feature artists honoured and acknowledged at 30th Dinner
- 2018 – David Loerchner, D. L. Creations, Bayfield – Hand-crafted wooden table
- 2017 – Iceculture Inc. of Hensall – Ice Wall Sculpture Display and Feature Package with guided tour; hands-on ice carving for 25; Six-Foot Ice Bar; entrance for 15 to Chill Ice House in Toronto
- 2016 – Jim Dawe, Murals in Metal – Flying Geese Sculpture
- 2015 – James Eddington – Culinary Feature Artist – A Watershed Culinary Experience
- 2014 – Tammy Laye – Mallards at Morrison
- 2013 – Madeleine Roske – Between Seasons
- 2012 – Martin Zimmer – Morning on the River
- 2011 – Catherine Weber – Morrison Trail
- 2010 – Fran Roelands – Along the Banks of Mud Creek
- 2009 – Bill Nieuwland – My Back Yard
- 2008 – David Bannister – Morning, Ausable
- 2007 – Tim Clark – Mystery Path of the Ausable
- 2006 – Teresa Marie – Big Red
- 2005 – Rae Ann Ladouceur – Water Wall
- 2004 – Elisabeth Tonner-Keats – Radiant Beginning
- 2003 – Randy Jones – Nature’s Tapestry
- 2002 – Fred Negrijn – Carving- Silent Vigil
- 2001 – Ken Jackson – Artist’s Perspective
- 2000 – Kent Wilkens – Evening Glory
- 1999 – Barry Richman – Silent Passage
- 1998 – Flora Doerr – One More on the Ausable
- 1997 – Tim Clark – Huron Summer Past
- 1996 – Peter Etril Snyder – Sharing
- 1995 – Tammy Laye – Bannockburn Bridge
- 1994 – Tammy Laye – Nature’s Harvest
- 1993 – Tammy Laye – Wetland Steward
- 1992 – Tammy Laye – Watershed Scene
- 1991 – Tammy Laye – Fisher in Flight
- 1990 – Tammy Laye – The Cedar Waxwing