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The Untamed Artist:
I grew up in Vancouver and have lived in the Comox Valley, BC since 1992. My wonderful life brings a diverse array of experiences to my art-from nursing in child psychiatry, Playworking at various Children’s Festivals, oyster farming, parenting my now grown children and doing what I love best next to creating--teaching Creative Process.
For me, art is an ongoing exploration and process of listening and responding to my inner and outer worlds. I adore colour as well as being drawn to the simplicity of black and white.
I call myself an "Untamed Artist" because, with playful curiosity, I express and explore in many media from acrylics, to mixed media, collage and drawing, depending on what is calling to me the day I create. I love to be open and able to unfold to ALL possibilities in the creative realms.
While living on Cortes Island, BC in my late 20's, I took Emily Carr outreach classes with Gordon Smith, Nora Blank and ongoing drawing classes with Elena Wheeler. Relocating to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, with my family in the early 1990’s, I studied life drawing at NIC. At this time, I worked in an Art Store and began teaching my Pure Process classes. Since then, I have participated in numerous art shows in the Comox Valley and in beyond. I presently live in Courtenay with my husband of 33 years. We have an adult son and daughter.
I am inspired and moved by Giacometti, Betty Goodwin, Alice Neel, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Andy Goldworthy and Angela Grossman, as well as the many people I have been blessed enough to teach over the years.
Awards and Nominations:
Pure Process Facilitator:
I have designed and taught “Pure Process Art” for the past 15 yrs. My passion is to explore and open with others the creative possibilities within. I received my Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of BC. After graduating, I worked in Child Psychiatry at Vancouver Children’s Hospital as well as facilitated Play Workshops for children and adults at festivals throughout Vancouver. Both these encounters inform and give a rich underlay to the work I do now as a creative process facilitator.
I guide my students through connecting to the childlike nature of simplicity, playfulness, tapping into their intuitive sense as well accessing the places within that have no words. I create a safe and non-judgmental environment for students both inexperienced and experienced to open and trust in the wonder of the creative process. My teaching style has developed from personally experiencing the painting process in my own work, my ongoing study of process based art work and all I have learned from my many wonderful students. Helping to instill an accepting and open approach to bringing creativity into the classroom and beyond has been a major focus of my work with teachers and students.
Presentations/ Teaching Activities:
Teacher and facilitator of community based art education including~
Conferences Presented at:
The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust
Pure Process ~ The Art of Creativity
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