We are pleased to announce next year’s master painter and instructor is Iosif Derecichei. This is the sixth of a series of workshops hosted by Carole & John Rudderham in association with Leading Edge Art Workshops of Calgary.

IOSIF DERECICHEI

October Date 2026 To Be Announced

Novar Community Hall—(Huntsville, Ontario)

About The Instructor

 IOSIF DERECICHEI

Born in 1962 in Transylvania, Romania, Iosif trained at Ion Andreescu Art University. His early impressionistic landscapes evolved into semi-abstract and abstract impressionist works, reflecting his native region’s rural imagery. After 1989, he exhibited widely across Europe and beyond. Since relocating to Canada in 2004, Iosif continues to explore memory and place through layered abstraction. He is represented by Koyman Galleries in Ottawa.
As a child he found that drawing was something that came naturally and he could sketch with ease anything he saw. His love of visual expression continued from then on and he graduated with a Bachelor of Art degree from the Ion Andreescu Art University in Romania several years later.

His early work was often done outdoors in an impressionistic style but as time passed the work eventually veered toward semi-abstraction and abstract impressionism. Today, his paintings still carry the fingerprint of the places where he was born, of familiar villages between the hills with their poppy fields and sunflowers.

See more of Iosef's wonderful work at https://koymangalleries.com/collections/iosif-derecichei

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Examples Of iosef’s Art