For as long as I can remember, life seemed magical to me. I have always had a vivid imagination and would spend ours creating little things out of anything I could find. When my parents had company over I would run around asking them to scribble on pages and I would run off to create something from nothing. I began selling my work and doing commission work by the age of 14.
When I was 16, I was featured in Dateline Arts magazine as one of the Artists of the year 2000.
At 19 I was accepted at Mount Allison University to attend their Fine Arts program which was quite an honor. They get thousands of applications a year and I was one of 25 selected. I was so young, homesick, it was clear across the country from home. I unfortunately did not complete my degree, oh the things you do when you are young. I kind of lost my artistic path, I guess I just wasn't ready for a creative awakening, yet.
Fast forward to married with a baby and my artistic fire came back. I don't know if motherhood rekindled the need to create in me or what but I needed it, like I needed air to breathe. I began painting in Watercolors and bought book after book learning new techniques and evolved into a more artistic, colorful, somewhat less realistic way of painting. I made a good friend from South Africa and she is an artistic and very colorful woman, I loved her raw appreciation for vibrant colors and I began to think outside the box, somewhat.
Fast forward again to the early-mid 2000's, another baby, and a branch off back into Acrylics. I started to become aware of all these wonderful mediums to add to them, fluid acrylics.... oh the fun! I also found computers! Hence my branch off into illustration, and resulting in my digital stamp shop. I still have my shop with my images in it but soon it will become my store, a bit of everything me.
Last but not least my latest proud moment was being selected last year to do a public art installation at the Library Allard in St. Georges Manitoba. The project was funded by Heritage Canada and I am so grateful to have been a part of it. There are more details of it here on the blog.
In a nutshell, I am a small town girl. Not overly fancy but I know how to gussy myself up and be cultured when needed. I love the simple things in life, I love to joke around, and I love to create.
XO
When I was 16, I was featured in Dateline Arts magazine as one of the Artists of the year 2000.
At 19 I was accepted at Mount Allison University to attend their Fine Arts program which was quite an honor. They get thousands of applications a year and I was one of 25 selected. I was so young, homesick, it was clear across the country from home. I unfortunately did not complete my degree, oh the things you do when you are young. I kind of lost my artistic path, I guess I just wasn't ready for a creative awakening, yet.
Fast forward to married with a baby and my artistic fire came back. I don't know if motherhood rekindled the need to create in me or what but I needed it, like I needed air to breathe. I began painting in Watercolors and bought book after book learning new techniques and evolved into a more artistic, colorful, somewhat less realistic way of painting. I made a good friend from South Africa and she is an artistic and very colorful woman, I loved her raw appreciation for vibrant colors and I began to think outside the box, somewhat.
Fast forward again to the early-mid 2000's, another baby, and a branch off back into Acrylics. I started to become aware of all these wonderful mediums to add to them, fluid acrylics.... oh the fun! I also found computers! Hence my branch off into illustration, and resulting in my digital stamp shop. I still have my shop with my images in it but soon it will become my store, a bit of everything me.
Last but not least my latest proud moment was being selected last year to do a public art installation at the Library Allard in St. Georges Manitoba. The project was funded by Heritage Canada and I am so grateful to have been a part of it. There are more details of it here on the blog.
In a nutshell, I am a small town girl. Not overly fancy but I know how to gussy myself up and be cultured when needed. I love the simple things in life, I love to joke around, and I love to create.
XO
