ARTIST STATEMENT
“Just keep going – no feeling is final.” (Rainer Maria Rilke) Resonant words and images that I collect or stumble across are the starting point for my artworks. I begin by scribing words and transferring found images, and my imagination takes the lead. Layer by layer, I develop an artwork's surface intuitively, leaving room for the unexpected. I'm fascinated by what can be unearthed over time.
BIO
I was born the eldest of eight children in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, where I remember taking my first art lessons in still life drawing and oil pastels. As a young woman, I studied graphic design at Sheridan Collage Institute of Technology. Recently I returned to school at the Vancouver Island School of Art, where I studied painting, printmaking, and art history.
Experiencing visual art - at exhibits, galleries or studios - is vital to human development. I enjoy involving the public through the workshops and classes that I teach, and the listings I post of local art events in my online newsletter. I am also committed to connecting with other artists in the community through art demonstrations, exhibits and studio tours.
I am married with two children, and live in Victoria, BC, Canada.
EDUCATION
2009 Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria BC, Certificate of Visual Art
2008 Island Magic International Calligraphy Conference, Shawnigan Lake, BC
1995 Fairbank Calligraphy Society Summer School, Victoria BC
1992 – 2010 Advanced calligraphy workshops, Fairbank Calligraphy Society, Victoria BC
1992 Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB, Studied Communication Symbols
1992 Okanagan University College, Kelowna BC, Studied Drawing
1990 – 1992 Calligraphy workshops & classes, Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild, Calgary AB, West Coast Calligraphy Society, Vancouver BC
1974 Sheridan College Institute of Technology, Oakville, ON, Studied Graphic Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Oh! What A Life!, Ground Zero Printmakers Studio, Victoria BC
2010 A Toast to the Season, Atelier Studio, Victoria BC
2009 New Prints, Alexander’s, Sidney BC
2007 New Work, Alexander’s, Sidney BC
2003 Revelations, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 CACGV Airport Galleries, Victoria Intertnational Airport, Victoria BC
2011 Art Incognito, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria BC
2011 The Place Where We Live, Cedar Hill Art Centre Gallery, Victoria BC
2011 Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke BC
2011 TD Art Gallery Paint-In, Victoria BC
2011 Artishow Artist-in-Residence Program, Victoria BC
2011 Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2010 Small Works (Summer & Christmas), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2010 New Original Work, Ground Zero Printmakers Society, Burnaby Public Library, Burnaby BC
2010 Ground Zero Printmakers Society Exhibition, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria BC
2010 Sidney Fine Art Show, Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney BC
2010 TD Art Gallery Paint-In, Victoria BC
2010 Fernwood Art Stroll, Victoria BC
2010 Colour 3, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2010 Fairbank Calligraphy Society Exhibit, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2010 Universe Inspired Art, National Research Council Canada, Victoria BC
2010 Artists in the Schools Program Exhibit, Monterey School, Victoria BC
2010 Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney BC
2010 LOOK Show, The Bay Centre, Victoria BC
2009 Monterey Art Gala (Artists in the Schools Fundraiser), Monterey Middle School, Victoria BC
2009 Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2009 LOOK Show, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2008 Anatomy of Grays, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria BC
2008 S.P.A.C. Selected Members Exhibit, Gallery on Beacon, Sidney BC
2008 Monterey Art Gala (Artists in the Schools Fundraiser), Monterey Middle School, Victoria BC
2008 Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2007 Monterey Art Gala (Artists in the Schools Fundraiser), Monterey Middle School, Victoria BC
2007 Lifelines Life Drawing Show, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria BC
2007 Art in Cognito, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria BC
2007 Along the Way, A Journey of Two Artists, Roberto-Ostberg Gallery, Calgary AB
2007 Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney BC
2007 It Just Keeps Getting Better, Goward House Gallery, Victoria, BC
2006 artsPeak Canmore Art Festival, Canmore AB
2006 A Breath of Spring Fundraiser, Calgary AB
2006 The Art of Letters, Calgary AB
2006 Places I’ve Been, Art & Soul Gallery, High River AB
2006 Fairbank Calligraphy Society Members Show, Sidney BC
2005 Out of the Blue 2, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2005 Night of Artists, University of Calgary, Calgary AB
2005 A Breath of Spring Fundraiser, Calgary AB
2004 Fairbank Calligraphy Society Members Show, Victoria BC
2003 Gallery at Mattick’s Farm (representation), Victoria BC
2003 Art of the Book, Travelling Exhibition across Canada
2003 Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2003 Artists’ Studio Tour, CACSP, Brentwood Bay BC
2002 Artists’ Studio Tour, CACSP, Brentwood Bay BC
2002 Fine Arts & Crafts, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2001 Fine Arts & Crafts, S.P.A.C., Brentwood Bay BC
2001 Artists’ Studio Tour, CACSP, Brentwood Bay BC
2001 Art in Bloom, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2000 Fine Arts & Crafts, S.P.A.C., Brentwood Bay BC
1999 Fine Arts & Crafts, S.P.A.C., Brentwood Bay BC
1998 Fine Arts & Crafts, S.P.A.C., Brentwood Bay BC
1995 West Coast Calligraphy Society Members Show, Vancouver BC
1993 Annual Spring Exhibit, Kelowna Arts Council, Kelowna BC
AWARDS
2011 Juror's Choice Award, Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2010 Jurors’ Choice Award, Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2009 Jurors’ Choice Award, Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2009 Sponsors’ Choice Award, LOOK Show, Victoria BC
2007 Jurors’ Choice Award, Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Sidney BC
2002 Jurors’ Choice Award, Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Brentwood Bay BC
2001 Jurors’ Choice Award, Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Brentwood Bay BC
2000 Jurors’ Choice Award, Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Brentwood Bay BC
1999 Jurors’ Choice Award, Fine Arts & Crafts Show, S.P.A.C., Brentwood Bay BC
SCHOLARSHIPS/BURSERIES
2009 Member Scholarship, S.P.A.C. (Saanich Peninsula Arts & Crafts Society)
2001 Member Bursurary, Fairbank Calligraphy Society
CURATORIAL
2010 Colour 3, AGGV, Victoria BC
2009 Proof of Identification, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria BC