I paint as a response to my surroundings. A wide range of subject matter interests me, but there is always a search for visual rhythms and connections between the disparate. The still-life work balances between material sensuality and sheer playfulness, involving a setting of actual objects in studio alongside the imaginary ones.
The landscape elements move between perception and memory. Studio work again, as opposed to painting on site, it involves reflection after the fact -- finding a language for the emotional impact of place and weather and season.
How to convey all this to a viewer is the ongoing puzzle of deconstructing an experience or a feeling, and then reconstructing it in paint on canvas. Marcel Duchamp is quoted as saying that "art is making the invisible, visible"; it's also making the fleeting glimpse into contemplation.
CURRICULUM VITAE
| BACKGROUND | Studied at Bealart (London, Ontario) and the Dundas Valley School of Art
(Ontario) Concentrated on watercolour techniques 1975 - 1995; acrylics from 1996 to present |
| current studio and home in Toronto, Canada | |
JURIED EXHIBITIONS prior to 2005 (please see "SHOWS" page for recent & upcoming): |
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| 2004: | Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery Autumn Juried Art Show |
| 2000: | Etobicoke
Civic Centre Art Gallery Autumn Juried Art Show Women’s Art Association Of Canada, Open Juried Art Exhibition |
| 1991, 1990, 1989: | Juried Miniature Show, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario |
| 1977: | Hamilton
& Region Juried Watercolour Exhibition, Honourable Mention
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| SOLO
EXHIBITIONS |
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| 1990: | Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario |
| 1987: | Blyth
Festival, Blyth, Ontario Artisan's Alley, London, Ontario |
| 1983 - 1986 incl: | Artisan's Alley, London, Ontario |
| 1982: | Dassk
Dimensions, St. Catharines, Ontario I still wonder if anyone reads this crap Artisan's Alley, London, Ontario |
| 1981: | Dassk
Dimensions, St. Catharines, Ontario Galerie Manfred, Dundas, Ontario |
| 1980: | Dassk
Dimensions, St. Catharines, Ontario Galerie Manfred, Dundas, Ontario |
| 1979, 1978: | Galerie
Manfred, Dundas, Ontario
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2002 and 1999: | Bloor West Village Studio Tour |
| 1992: | Women's
Art Festival, Kingston, Ontario "Deviations On A Theme", Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario works in coloured pencil by K. Naylor, textile works by Lorraine Roy |
| 1992, 1991, 1990: | "Sins And Lovers" show, Michael Gibson Gallery, London |
| 1989, 1985 -1987: | Chamber Of Commerce Show, Kincardine, Ontario |
| 1989, 1986,1977 - 1979: | Janrielle
Gallery, Niagara Falls, Ontario
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| ILLUSTRATION: | CHILDREN'S BOOKS |
| 1996: | SnowPaws by Mary Alice Downie, Stoddart Publishing |
| 1995: | Blown Away by Julie Lawson, Red Deer College Press |
| 1994: | The
Many Hats Of Mr. Minches by Paulette Bourgeois, Stoddart Publishing |
| 1993 | The
Cat Park by Mary Alice Downie, Quarry Press
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| TEACHING | |
| 2009 - current | Working with private students in acrylics and coloured pencil. Lunchtime Drawing classes at the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon |
| 1996 - 2000: | Art Works Art School, Toronto, Ontario: Assistant Administrator. Instructor in watercolours, coloured pencil techniques, introductory acrylics, drawing, and colour theory. |
| June 2000: | Toronto Watercolour Society, techniques lecture and demonstration |
| 1998, 1997: | Kingston Regional Arts Centre, Ontario, spring watercolours workshops |
| 1996: | Kingston School Of Art, watercolours workshop |
| 1992: | Queen’s
University, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario watercolours workshops |
| 1991: | University
Of Western Ontario, watercolours course for special-interest program City of London, Ontario, oil painting City of London, Ontario, watercolours |
| 1990: | Fanshawe
College, Ontario introductory and intermediate watercolours courses Kincardine, Ontario, beginners' watercolours |
| 1989: | Kincardine, Ontario, intermediate watercolour workshops |
| 1986: | Visual Arts Kincardine, intermediate watercolour workshops |
| 1982: | The Gallery Group, London, watercolours course |
