Biography
I am an archaeologist, a mother, a home renovator, a writer, a web designer and Reiki practitioner among many other roles. I have been painting and exhibiting in the Hamilton/Burlington region for 20 years. I am working towards a Level 2 certificate at the Dundas Valley School of Art.
Currently I am studying Classical Realism at the Hamilton Conservatory of Arts with Alexander Dzyubko-Doyle.
In 2008, I was fortunate to move into a real studio space at the Imperial Cotton Centre. Every time I go there, I give myself permission to try whatever appeals to me at that moment.
My first visitor described my work as eclectic - “Did one person paint all these?” Yes, that's me.
In February 2007, my second solo show entitled Domestic Intimacy was held at the Sunrise Gallery, Hamilton. It comprised a series of still life works created in and of my domestic space and figure paintings of my growing children. While many of those images are seen here, the full show can be see online (Sunrise 2007) at the Art-in-Canada.com site
Art-in-Canada.com is a web site that I designed and curate, as an Online Portfolio site for fellow artists.
In January 2009, I was one of Five Painters at the You Me Gallery.
Other group shows include: we @ you me 2006 and we 2005 @ you me; the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (2000, 2003); Transit Gallery Aids Network Charity Auctions (2001-3) and Convergence: 10 Body Contexts at the Main Gallery of the Burlington Art Centre (2000).