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I was born in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), and lived there up until 2004. It is a beautiful and inspiring city to live in, for the two and a half months of summer it gets. The rest of the year is cold, colder and coldest. I am enjoying Tucson, a city that goes to other extremes of the temperature scale.
When I left Montreal, and followed my new husband to Tucson, one of the things I missed was working with inner-city children, bringing them art and creativity. So, I started to volunteer as an art teacher at an elementary school in a financially disadvantaged area here in my new adopted city. Working with kids is challenging, but I found I got more back than I could ever give out.
Artist, illustrator, art teacher for more than 25 years. I have worked in hospitals as a medical illustrator, switched to being a graphic artist, a fashion illustrator, a private art teacher, a self-taught calligrapher and oil/water-color painter. Through it all, I wrote books and illustrated some of them. As a driven and hopefully inspired artist, it has been easier to create the work than it has been to find the courage to bring it to market. My life’s partner is no longer allowing me to be content with hiding in the shadows, and allowing my life’s work to pile up.
The book, “Cannelle in Her New Home”, was created during a time I was a single mother, working full-time, and I squeezed out time for my art during evenings and weekends, when I found a few moments to myself. Art and creating are more of an obsession, in that if I don’t do it I can’t eat or sleep. It was never a question of “Someday I will find the time to do it.” It was more, “Someday I will find the time to catch up on the dusting!” Housework can wait, art can’t! Art is my passion, which I turn to express my joy and my sorrows. It is simply what I NEED to do in order to be the real me, and is my filter through which I see life.
There are many ways to express the creative spirit, and I am one who loves to try to learn many things and to have a few different projects going all at the same time, to rotate my time not to become oversaturated with just one thing. I don’t believe an artist needs to choose only one medium or one style; rather, life is much more exciting to have a selection to choose from!
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS
GROUP MUSEUM EXHIBITS, Juried
• “Museum Without Walls”, New York City, Bryant Park, 2007
“Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
• “Museum Without Walls”, New York City, Lower Manhattan,
South Street Seaport, 2006
“Rhapsody in Art” – Exhibited “The Muse Trilogy” - A Healing Journey
Response from the people: Unanimously declared that this artwork
must go out to help the people.
GROUP EXHIBITS, Juried
• Art Rocks Show, Beaconsfield, Quebec, 1999
3 day festival, featuring artists and musicians
• Ville Saint Laurent Municipal Show, Ville Saint Laurent, Quebec, 1998
3 day show, honorable mention
GALLERIES
• Enchanted Earthworks Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, 2004-2008
Artwork displayed and sold on a regular basis
WORKSHOPS
• Sunstone Cancer Centers, Tucson, Arizona, June 2, 2007
Created a one-day art workshop to assist participants in the Eli Lilly –
“Lilly Oncology on Canvas”, an international art competition culminating
in a book that includes original works by cancer survivors, their families
and friends, as well as “The Muse Trilogy”
• Professional Women’s Lunch Group, Beaconsfield, Quebec, 1998
Calligraphy, basics of, to a group of 125 women
FILM WORK
• 3rd Assistant Director in WATER PARK, National Commercial, 2006
On Slot Creative
Ben Patterson - Director
• 2nd Unit, Assistant Wardrobe in THE DECOY, Feature, 2005
Justin Kreinbrink - Director
ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS
• Bilingual children's book - Cannelle's New Life
Created: 2000
Published: 2008, Edico Oy, Finland
• Encouraging quotes calligraphy books, 2005
• Encouraging scripture calligraphy books, 2002
• Calligraphy book – Ingrid Miller's account of her trip to China, 1985
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