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Painting brings me delight. My interest in art began at a young age with encouragement from parents and teachers. By my late teens and twenties, the artist in me flourished. After graduating high school in a visual & performing arts program, I studied music (classical guitar) at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and was tutored by Victoria artist Glen Hawkins. His influence birthed my interest in realism.Â
In the mid to late 70’s I sold oil paintings to people in and around Duncan. However, marriage, family, further education, and career took me away from painting but for a few brief sojourns back to the easel. Throughout the years I traveled and taught two-week undergraduate and graduate-level practical theological modules in Ukraine, Armenia, and the Netherlands. Subjects included courses on missions, leadership, cross-cultural evangelism, and church planting.
Now retired, I have returned with the intent to do acrylic painting and take great pleasure in painting landscapes, old buildings, historical scenes and villages enjoying colour and design. I continue to develop my style and medium, rhythm and design, and fresh thinking about the creative process. Canada’s Group of Seven as well as artists like Robert Genn, and E.J. Hughes inspire me.
