Along with nine brother and sisters, I was born and raised at Oxbow. After graduating from high school I went to Winnipeg, Man. where I obtained my RN certification. During my first posting back home in Oxbow, I met and married my husband Ed. He was transferred to North Battleford and we have resided here ever since raising our three girls, Brenda, Darlene and Patricia.
We presently reside outside of Battleford, on Leo Mitchell road, in a self-designed log home.
Following 45 years in the medical/hospital community I retired and then joined the Battlefords Art Club. I have always been able to sketch, but painting was new to me. Mainly self taught, I have taken workshops from such notables as Graham Flatt, Kevin Quinlin, Bonnie Macnab and Dean Bauche.
I work mainly in watercolour because of the transparency and purity of color. I am particularly attracted to portraiture, human and animal. I am excited about painting on silk, a technique I learned from a class with Bonnie Macnab.
The art club members are like family. They are very supportive and dispense of their knowledge freely.
Living in the country stimulates my senses, as beauty is all around. Picasso once said "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
Art Notes
"If you hear a voice within you say 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh.
Glorious weather with the harvest proceeding rapidly, and friends and colleagues gathered to paint in various media Tuesday at the Don Ross Centre. What more could you ask for?
There were discussions and finalizing of plans for our art show and sale Oct. 24 from 4 to 8 p.m. and Oct. 25 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Hopefully we will be joined by the quilters and woodworkers. So, mark your calendars and come, visit and buy some Christmas gifts. Watch this space for upcoming workshops.
