PEDAL WORKS CAFÉ AND STUDIOS
1412 Princess Street, Kingston, Ontario K7M 3E5

HOST SITE FOR THE KINGSTON ART TOUR 2025

OCTOBER 4 & 5 11:00am to 5:00pm

Pedal Works Café & Studios is a warm and inviting stop on the Kingston Art Tour, located at 101C Princess Street at the easily accessible corner of Princess and Portsmouth. We offer free and ample parking in both the front and back of the building, accessible entrances, and barrier-free washrooms. Inside, you’ll find a cozy café and licensed space where you can enjoy a glass of wine or beer while viewing work from local artists and vendors.

Mon, Wed & Fri 8:30-5PM
Tue  CLOSED
Thur 8:30-8 PM
Sat & Sun 8:30-1:30

EXHIBITORS AT PEDAL WORKS CAFÉ & STUDIOS

KINGSTON ART TOUR 2025

The artists and Pedal Works Café & Studios’ staff welcome you to the Kingston Art Tour & hope you enjoy the artwork & a quiet moment in a tranquil and inspiring environment

Charlie is an emerging artist in Kingston Ontario. Originally from Brandon Manitoba, she has made a significant effort in the last year to gain recognition for her art. She volunteers and sells paintings through Kingston Community for Arts and Design (KCAD). She won fifth place on the 2024 Youth Imagine the Future Festival, was featured in the annual Union Gallery “Side by Side” auction, was front page on the Wunderlit magazine, participated at the 2025 Art fest, Art After Dark and Princess Promenade’s, and has displayed her work in the Kingston mall and City Hall. She hopes to teach art one day in the future.

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“Holy Mackerel” oil on canvas

“Irrelevant” acrylic on canvas

“NO TIME FOR CROCODILE TEARS” oil on canvas

“From one messy b*tch to another” acrylic on canvas

“Free Palestine” mixed media

Celebrating the Culinary Landscape of Northumberland County

It’s all about the taste of place at Centre and Main Chocolate Co. Award-winning chocolatier, Angela Roest, combines the flavours of Northumberland County with the finest ethically sourced chocolate from around the world. Experience Angela’s handcrafted small batch chocolate creations in her gallery-style boutique at the corner of Centre and Main Streets in the designated arts village of Warkworth, Ontario.

The Chocolatier

Meet Angela Roest — Award-Winning Chocolatier

A Fresh and Unique Approach to Artisan Chocolate

Angela’s chocolate creations are a celebration of local food. Her unique talent for finding perfectly balanced local flavours is guided by the local growing season and what is currently available at its peak of freshness. This approach has inspired some incredibly diverse chocolate creations that have won both Canadian and International awards.        https://centreandmainchocolate.com/

“Karen’s paintings are a blend of imagination and nature’s quiet beauty. Through colour and rhythm she creates scenes that invite peace, and reflection.

At times Karen explores a whimsical side, painting playful animals simply for the joy they bring”.

After 20 years as a successful fibre artist showing work throughout Ontario and overseas, arthritis forced Robin to give up the needle and pick up a brush. She’s been painting for 8 years, mostly abstract mixed media with on-line help from a pair of British artists.

Notes on the series.

I made my living as a writer, so words matter to me – mine and others. A number of these paintings are painted over a collage of personal letters and memorabilia and sport a visible verbal message.

Robin can’t remember a time when she wasn’t making things from dolls’ clothes to paper dolls dressed in the latest styles from Seventeen magazine to the Christmas cards she flogged to her mother’s friends. During her mothering and working years she designed and made all her own clothes. When she retired she started taking art classes at the Toronto School of Art. But it wasn’t until she moved to Kingston that she made a real effort. For three years she went to an adult class for grades 9,10 and ll art at LaSalle High School. She went in after the kids left – 3pm to 6pm 5 days a week. The teacher, Rose Stewart, was a retired art teacher and a friend. Rose made her students show their work each year and Robin actually sold a drawing! Many of the students from that class started meeting weekly in the summer to sketch and she discovered she could draw trees as long as they had lots of leaves. During that time she spent several weeks in England, and did pen and ink sketches from her photos. She showed these drawings in the Main Library which used to have shows in a large bright room. Sadly no more. She sold most of that show. One of the other students in the class was Hilary Scanlon, a local fibre artists, and she suggested Robin might be interested in joining the Kingston Fibre Artists. She did join and stitched and showed with them annually in Kingston and around Ontario for 18 years. She put together a series based on photos from her many travels and it showed in galleries in Toronto and other venues including the Textile Museum in Almonte. In 2022, arthritis in her hands ended Robin’s stitching days so she pulled out her acrylics and with a lot of help from a couple of on-line teachers from the UK started painting abstracts. These abstracts always have words involved – either they’re painted on a collaged base of letters and memorabilia or they have a pithy or humorous quote. This is left over from her career as a writer when words really mattered.