The challenge to capture the beautiful northern landscape let me travel the art pass for the last 30 years. Painting to me is not simply producing a good picture, but rather allowing the feeling I have for my subject to inspire the colour and brushwork that portray a mood.
Interested in art since childhood, I taught myself primarily by reading books and magazines, studying the work of other artists and spending time honing my skills. My subject matters include animals, flowers, landscape and the human form. To keep my work fresh I love to use whatever medium will suit the subject. I’m constantly learning and exited by the next great painting that awaits me. The joy of painting, being persistent and believing in myself even if other people told me differently, made me the artist I am today.
I found inspirations in the northern landscape and began painting in watercolours. While largely self-taught in this medium, during the 1990s, I attended FCA workshops on Saltspring Island and Victoria and outdoor sketching and figure drawing at the Summer School in Wells, BC. Although I enjoy many mediums, I now work primarily with my gouache and ink washout technique, pushing boundaries with it.
Since 1989 my works have been included in numerous juried exhibitions including the BC Festival of the Arts, CSPW - Open Water Exhibit - in Toronto, Museum of Northern British Columbia and at the Prince George Two Rivers Gallery. I have been juried into, shown with and won a number of awards with FCA, in Vancouver, Kelowna and Kamloops.
I pass on my knowledge by teaching seniors sketching and painting the outdoors. I live
in Burns Lake, BC with my husband, my dog and three cats.
Interested in art since childhood, I taught myself primarily by reading books and magazines, studying the work of other artists and spending time honing my skills. My subject matters include animals, flowers, landscape and the human form. To keep my work fresh I love to use whatever medium will suit the subject. I’m constantly learning and exited by the next great painting that awaits me. The joy of painting, being persistent and believing in myself even if other people told me differently, made me the artist I am today.
I found inspirations in the northern landscape and began painting in watercolours. While largely self-taught in this medium, during the 1990s, I attended FCA workshops on Saltspring Island and Victoria and outdoor sketching and figure drawing at the Summer School in Wells, BC. Although I enjoy many mediums, I now work primarily with my gouache and ink washout technique, pushing boundaries with it.
Since 1989 my works have been included in numerous juried exhibitions including the BC Festival of the Arts, CSPW - Open Water Exhibit - in Toronto, Museum of Northern British Columbia and at the Prince George Two Rivers Gallery. I have been juried into, shown with and won a number of awards with FCA, in Vancouver, Kelowna and Kamloops.
I pass on my knowledge by teaching seniors sketching and painting the outdoors. I live
in Burns Lake, BC with my husband, my dog and three cats.