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Rivers, Manitoba, Canada, 1950
Bachelor of Interior Design, University of Manitoba
Master of Facility Management, University of Manitoba
Monotype Printmaking: Red Deer Community College
Monotype Printmaking: Martha Street Studio-Winnipeg
Relief Printmaking: Martha Street Studio-Winnipeg
Etching & Lithography: Martha Street Studio-Winnipeg
Intermediate Watercolour: Winnipeg Art Gallery
Intermediate Acrylic Painting: Winnipeg Art Gallery
Intermediate Pastel Drawing: Winnipeg Art Gallery
2005 Fleet Gallery-Winnipeg
2007 Fleet Gallery-Winnipeg
2007 Birchwood Art Gallery –Winnipeg
2009 Birchwood Art Gallery-Winnipeg
2010 Birchwood Art Gallery
2006 Birchwood Art Gallery
2006 Fleet Gallery-Winnipeg
Millennium Library Young Adult Area, Winnipeg
Canadiana Fund: Four Paintings selected as part of permanent collection to be displayed in Canada’s Official Residences in Ottawa & Quebec City
The Keg Restaurants, Winnipeg
Maclean Electric, Winnipeg
Cardinal Financial Management Services, Winnipeg
Bistro Inferno Restaurant, Winnipeg
First Avenue Office Furnishings, Winnipeg
I am currently interested in creating mainly mixed media monotype prints that are generally abstract, but often include some realistic aspects such as flowers or landscapes. The first part of the print is created on a metal plate using rollers, brushes and other tools to develop and create patterns of all types. Blank and partially blank areas are left on the plate in order to allow for further development once the print is run. Once the print has been run, then it is worked back into with some type of realistic or semi abstract landscape or floral image. Other patterns and metallic embellishments are added as well. I am particularly fond of gold and silver leaf, so a great number of my paintings and prints incorporate the use of this material. Monotype printmaking of this type involving traditional and innovative techniques provides many opportunities for happy accidents as well as the grace to influence the finished product.
My most recent two person show at the Birchwood Art Gallery included fourteen larger acrylic canvasses, which were mainly semi-abstract landscapes and urban landscapes. The canvasses were fairly experimental and the semi abstract landscapes seemed to evoke past memories for places people had visited or lived and allowed people to place themselves into the painting in their own way.
Being an Interior Designer, I am interested in the enhancement of interior spaces. My influences are everything I see, feel and experience in the built and natural environment. My daily life involves architecture and interior spaces, therefore art pieces are created as pieces that enhance, and beautify, as well as provide a focal point for the interior environment in which they are placed, private or commercial. They are not meant to be social statements with deep meaning, or to be controversial. Explanation is generally not required, as it is my hope to evoke visual pleasure for the viewer without a right or wrong message. It is my intent to create paintings that speak for themselves and allow the viewer to receive their own message. Throughout history, art as a means of beautification for our living and working environment has been considered a valid reason for the creation of art. My paintings are meant to delight and gratify the people who display them in their home or work surroundings. I would like to think my art is grounded in pleasure and aesthetics.
Bachelor of Interior Design, University of Manitoba
Master of Facility Management, University of Manitoba
Monotype Printmaking: Red Deer Community College
Monotype Printmaking: Martha Street Studio-Winnipeg
Relief Printmaking: Martha Street Studio-Winnipeg
Etching & Lithography: Martha Street Studio-Winnipeg
Intermediate Watercolour: Winnipeg Art Gallery
Intermediate Acrylic Painting: Winnipeg Art Gallery
Intermediate Pastel Drawing: Winnipeg Art Gallery
2005 Fleet Gallery-Winnipeg
2007 Fleet Gallery-Winnipeg
2007 Birchwood Art Gallery –Winnipeg
2009 Birchwood Art Gallery-Winnipeg
2010 Birchwood Art Gallery
2006 Birchwood Art Gallery
2006 Fleet Gallery-Winnipeg
Millennium Library Young Adult Area, Winnipeg
Canadiana Fund: Four Paintings selected as part of permanent collection to be displayed in Canada’s Official Residences in Ottawa & Quebec City
The Keg Restaurants, Winnipeg
Maclean Electric, Winnipeg
Cardinal Financial Management Services, Winnipeg
Bistro Inferno Restaurant, Winnipeg
First Avenue Office Furnishings, Winnipeg
I am currently interested in creating mainly mixed media monotype prints that are generally abstract, but often include some realistic aspects such as flowers or landscapes. The first part of the print is created on a metal plate using rollers, brushes and other tools to develop and create patterns of all types. Blank and partially blank areas are left on the plate in order to allow for further development once the print is run. Once the print has been run, then it is worked back into with some type of realistic or semi abstract landscape or floral image. Other patterns and metallic embellishments are added as well. I am particularly fond of gold and silver leaf, so a great number of my paintings and prints incorporate the use of this material. Monotype printmaking of this type involving traditional and innovative techniques provides many opportunities for happy accidents as well as the grace to influence the finished product.
My most recent two person show at the Birchwood Art Gallery included fourteen larger acrylic canvasses, which were mainly semi-abstract landscapes and urban landscapes. The canvasses were fairly experimental and the semi abstract landscapes seemed to evoke past memories for places people had visited or lived and allowed people to place themselves into the painting in their own way.
Being an Interior Designer, I am interested in the enhancement of interior spaces. My influences are everything I see, feel and experience in the built and natural environment. My daily life involves architecture and interior spaces, therefore art pieces are created as pieces that enhance, and beautify, as well as provide a focal point for the interior environment in which they are placed, private or commercial. They are not meant to be social statements with deep meaning, or to be controversial. Explanation is generally not required, as it is my hope to evoke visual pleasure for the viewer without a right or wrong message. It is my intent to create paintings that speak for themselves and allow the viewer to receive their own message. Throughout history, art as a means of beautification for our living and working environment has been considered a valid reason for the creation of art. My paintings are meant to delight and gratify the people who display them in their home or work surroundings. I would like to think my art is grounded in pleasure and aesthetics.