I was born in Quebec and grew up in an art-rich environment in the Laurentians and Montreal. At 22 I moved to British Columbia’s West Coast to go to graduate school and stayed on.
For more than 25 years I’ve been pursuing formal art studies to add to a lifetime of informal study. I also hold a BA and MA.
Before turning to a full-time art practice, I was a professional writer and editor, in effect working with language the way I now work with visual art forms: as a way to see, experience and better understand the world and my own small part in it. In many studio projects, I merge the two pursuits, devising ways to turn quoted passages—poetic, scientific, philosophic, salty—into 2D and 3D visual form.
I work from my light-filled home studio near the ocean and mountains in the Cowichan Valley, outside Victoria, British Columbia.
Select Education and Skills Development
Art school: Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria BC (since 2005): abstract colour and form, art history, collage and composition, colour theory, design principles, series development, painting (landscape, figure, still life, portrait, abstraction). Currently enrolled in VISA’s Certificate of Visual Arts.
Workshops, mentorships, art residencies/retreats, etc:
- Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts (since 2003): contemporary and abstract art concepts, 3D assemblage/sculpture, series development, hot glass sandcasting
- Vancouver Island Art Workshops (since 2006): abstract mixed media, abstract painting, abstract design, abstract design masterclass
- Collaborative Artist’s Mentorship Program (CAMP), Victoria BC (Connie Michele Morey)
- Group coaching program, The Artist’s Mindset (Cheryl Taves, Insight Creative)
- Joya arte + ecologia Art Residency, Almeria, Spain, June 2024
- Isla Mujeres, Mexico, self-directed group art retreat, 2020 and 2023
- Photojournalism course, Western Academy of Photography, Victoria BC (Ted Grant)
- MA, University of Victoria, Victoria BC; BA (Honours), Concordia University, Montreal QC
Memberships Current and Past
- Art Critique Program with contemporary artist Sara Robichaud
- co-LAB-orate Art Crit group, Victoria BC
- Cowichan Valley Arts Council
- Ladysmith & District Arts Council
- Victoria Arts Council
- Zebra Arts Collective, Victoria BC
Solo Exhibitions
- 2025: Featured artist, Ladysmith & District Arts Council satellite venue, Royal-LePage, Ladysmith BC
- 2023: Caustic Optimism, Victoria Arts Council satellite venue, Oak Bay Public Library, Victoria BC (juried)
- 2022: Room for Not Knowing, Chapel Gallery, Victoria BC
Collaborative Group Exhibitions
- 2025: Writ Large: Contemporary works on paper, three-person show, Arc.hive Gallery, Victoria BC
- 2023: Trifolia, three-person show, Gage Gallery, Victoria BC
- 2022: 6 x 6 x 6, co-LAB-orate group show, Errant artSpace, Victoria BC
- 2021: Seen | Together, exhibition with Louise Oborne, Errant artSpace, Victoria BC
- 2021: Interlude, five-member group show, Errant artSpace, Victoria BC
- 2019: In Light of Winter, Zebra Art Collective group show, Chapel Gallery, Victoria BC
Select Additional Group Exhibitions
- 2025: Light & Shadow: InFocus 11th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, Edmonton AB (juried)
- 2024: Illuminate, Arts Council of Ladysmith & District show, Ladysmith BC (juried)
- 2023–2024: Black and White: EJ Hughes Gallery, Duncan BC (juried)
- 2023: December Members Show, Victoria Arts Council, VAC Gallery, Victoria BC
- 2023: Look Again: Photographic Art Show, ArtPod Gallery, Metchosin BC (juried)
- 2023: 53rd Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC
- 2022: Ekphrasis, ArtPod Gallery, Metchosin BC (juried)
- 2022: 52nd Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC
- 2021: 35th Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke BC (juried)
- 2021: 51st Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC
- 2021: 9th biennial Ladysmith Fine Arts Show, Ladysmith BC (juried)
- 2020: Summer Show, Victoria Arts Council, VAC Gallery, Victoria BC (juried)
- 2020: 50th Annual Fine Arts Show, Portals Gallery, Duncan BC (Hon. Mention award)
- 2020: UNTIL online gallery (Issue 4), Victoria Arts Council, Victoria BC (juried)