About me and my art
The places I paint have drawn me there for different reasons. However, each provides me with a common appreciation for life and the world around us. Through my paintings I try to transform the connections I make with these places – their special features, the moment, specific vantage points and subjects most captivating to me and my other interests. In creating these, I am reminded of the people I have travelled with and met along the way, and the feelings I came away with from my visits. My paintings help strengthen the connections I have made to the places they are about!
My educational background includes a Master’s Degree in City Planning, a considerable number of courses in visual arts, and a few excellent workshops from some well known artists, including Mr. Zoltan Szabo, I am, however, largely a self-taught watercolour painter, best knwon for my realistic and detailed depictions of Canadian and international landscapes.
My interest in watercolours began in 1994/95. Some of my early works were accepted in a commercial gallery in Banff National Park in 1995. Shortly after, my work was being shown in other galleries in Waterton National Park, Canmore and Regina.
In 1999, I was admiitted into the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and in 2000, one of my works was selected as an addition to the Royal Collection at Winsor Castle. In 2015, another piece was selected for the CSPWC exhibition in Halifax.
In 2018, three pieces were selected for exhibitions: one as part of a France-Canada watercolour societies exchange project; another as an international joint venture of the IWS and CSPWC; and third for the Water Reflections exhibition at the Etobicoke Civic Centre in Ontario.
In 2021, WATERCOLOR ARTIST MAGAZINE included a feature article on me, my art and connections to my other interests and passions.
