Almost Heaven Painting

I started painting and drawing with my sisters to pass rainy days at the family cottage in the 60s Drawing and painting saw me through teenage-hood, after which I landed in Toronto’s art scene in the early 80s. Working in artist-run spaces to support myself, I created paintings with my artist contemporaries as subjects. A 1987 trip to Australia and Indonesia to learn about different ‘artviews’ took a year of wonderfully spent time and led to my volunteering to teach art in Sierra Leone, Africa in 1990. I liked teaching art and so returned to university to get a B.A. in Studio Arts and Bachelor of Education in Art from the University of British Columbia. In order to allow for more painting time, after many years teaching and painting in Vancouver, she moved to the Comox Valley where she paints, teaches painting and spends time with her animals. She donates paintings and prints to raise money for animals who need it. My paintings are one-of-a-kind originals. They are very expressive, colourful and evocative as I paint the feeling associated with the subject.