The Artist
After graduating from the Ontario College of Art in 1978 (OCAD), I worked as a staff artist at the Royal Ontario Museum, followed by a brief sojourn into children's book illustration. However, my primary focus has always been the painting of the figure, in portraiture and as a means of artistic expression. Although I have never been content with the repetition of a formula and have always pushed my own boundaries, it has taken years for me to truly listen to my own voice, to throw off convention and paint with abandon and joy. I am now painting as nature intended me to paint, exalting in the physical qualities of oil, playing with texture, line and colour, and encouraging the interplay between two and three-dimensionality. I encourage and appreciate the happy accident that occurs when paint and canvas meet and thrive on the raw and emotive energy of the physical act of artistic creation. It is the dichotomy of expression between my abstract and figurative work that motivates me most as one discipline nourishes and stimulates the other.
Exhibitions
2008, April, Fab-Stract, Group Show, Main Street Gallery
2008, March, Essence of Spring, Group Show, Main Street Gallery
2007, November - March, Studio Portraits, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria
2006, Summer Exhibition - Fran Willis Gallery
2004, September - Sidney Fine Art Juried Show
2005, August - Sooke Fine Art Juried Show
2003, September - Opening show, Winchester Galleries Victoria
2003, September - Sidney Fine Art Show (Juried, First Prize)
2003, August - Sooke Fine Art Juried Show
2003, April - 'Intimacy: The Human Image' Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists, West Vancouver
2001, April - Winchester Gallery View Street Exhibit, Victoria
1998, December - Artspring Opening Group Show, Saltspring Island
1997, October - New Works, Solo Show, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
1996, July - Canadian Women Artists, Group Show, Winchester Gallery, Victoria
1992, May - Solo Show Barton Leir Gallery, Victoria
1988, November - Opening Group Show, North Park Gallery, Victoria
1979, August - Group Show, Prince Arthur Gallery, Toronto
1978, July - Group Show, Prince Arthur Gallery, Toronto
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