About Us — Artedea-Bohemiarte School

Our history

Artedea-Bohemiarte School was born in 2015 from the merger of Artedea (founded in 2015) and Bohemiarte (founded in 2000), created by artists Irena Korosec and Jane Arnot Kavanagh. In 2020, Artedea-Bohemiarte decided to specialise in the individual apprenticeship program for traditional painting techniques by Old Masters, including gilding and restoration for advanced students only, while entering a reference partnership with Académie des Beaux-Arts de Montréal — ACADEM for the basic classical academic painting instructions. Moreover, Irena Korosec joined the ACADEM team of teachers, dividing her time between the two schools.

Faculty

Irena Korosec

Painting · Gilding · Restoration

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts (Painting and Restoration department) — Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1987. Recipient of many International Awards and Grants.

Art Renewal Center — International Salon (ARC, USA)

2004 — Honorable Mention for Figurative Work
2004 — ARC Staff Award for Figurative Work
2004 — Purchase Award for Figurative Work
2004, 2006, 2007, 2020, 2024 — Finalist, Figurative Category

Portrait Society of Canada

2011, 2014 — First Prize, Best Portrait
2016 — Winner of People's Choice Award
2012, 2018, 2019, 2020 — Certificate of Excellence

Grants & Memberships

Elizabeth Greenshields International Foundation Grant
Member of Portrait Society of Canada
Member of Portrait Society of America
2022 onward — Permanent jury member for the Annual Canadian Portrait Society Competition

Teacher of classical art for over thirty years — Saidye Bronfman School of Arts, Dawson College, Bohemiarte School of Arts Montréal, Artedea Online School of Arts, Académie des Beaux-Arts — ACADEM.

Details of artwork (oil paintings and drawings) shown on her page.

Marie-Annebelle Hébert

Technical assistant

Painting · Sculpting · Restoration

Formation

2025 — Restoration supervised by Iréna Korosec and Jane Arnot Kavanagh
2015 to 2026 — Studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Montréal — ACADEM
2012 to 2015 — Studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal — EBAMA
2013 — Graduated in Arts and New Technologies from the Cégep of Bois-de-Boulogne — BdeB

Teaching

Assistant teacher and assistant logistics — Académie des Beaux-Arts — ACADEM
Teacher of classical art for 6 years — Académie des Beaux-Arts — ACADEM, RUBIKA
Guest teacher — Académie des Beaux-Arts — ACADEM, Cégep de Bois-de-Boulogne — BdeB

Co-founder · Retired

Jane Arnot Kavanagh

Jane Arnot Kavanagh co-founded Bohemiarte in 2000 and spent two decades teaching classical drawing, gilding, and restoration with extraordinary dedication and grace. Her warmth, precision, and deep love for the craft left a lasting impression on every student she guided. She was not only a gifted teacher but a true artist — and a generous soul who helped shape this school into what it is today. We are profoundly grateful for everything she brought to Artedea-Bohemiarte. Her legacy lives on in the work of all who had the privilege of learning from her.

Her new site will be linked here soon