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BIRTHPLACE

Lloydminster, Saskatchewan

 

EDUCATION

1979-82 Graduate, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver BC, Fine Arts (Honours)

1975-78 Douglas College (Kwantlen), Surrey & New Westminster BC, Fine Arts & Humanities

Attended Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops as participant

1982 with guest artists Stanley Boxer, James Wolfe, NY

1983 with guest artists Charles Millard, Washington, DC; Larry Zox, NY

1984 with guest artists Tim Scott, London, England; Valentin Tatransky, Brooklyn, NY

1985 with guest artists Karen Wilkin, Toronto ON; Maryann Harmon, Virginia

1986 with guest artists Peter Bradley, NY; Lawrence John Link, Kalamazoo, MI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Elsie Scherle Art Gallery, LMLCC, Regina Beach SK, Shape of Being Revisited, paintings

2001 joe moran gallery, Regina SK, Destinations, the dream-voyage-home, monoprints

1997 Café Browse, Saskatoon SK, Intimacies, paintings

1987 Calories, Saskatoon, SK, Shape of Being, paintings

1984 Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange, Regina SK, Recent Works, paintings/monoprints

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1986 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina SK, Shape of Being, paintings

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Elsie Scherle Art Gallery, LMLCC, Regina Beach SK, Working Mom, paintings

2008 Art Gallery of Regina, Regina SK, House & Home, paintings

2007 Art Gallery of Regina/Cathedral Free House, Regina SK, Intrinsic/Extrinsic Landscapes,

paintings

1999 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina SK, 22nd Annual Salon Show, paintings/drawings

1998 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina SK, All About the Garden, paintings

1998 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina SK, Annual Salon Show, paintings (Also in 1997, 1996)

1987 Articule Gallery, Montreal, QB, Neutral Ground/Articule Exchange Show, paintings

1985 Neutral Ground, Regina SK, Small Matters, multimedia

1984 Neutral Ground, Regina SK, Alternating Currents, paintings

1983 Neutral Ground, Regina SK, October Crisis, collaborative installation, Scarth Street

1983 Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina SK, Group Show, paintings

1982 MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina SK, Works by University of Regina Extension Instructors,

paintings

1982 Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver BC, Graduating Exhibition, paintings

1980 Greater Vancouver Artist’s Gallery, Vancouver BC, Printmaking Exhibition, lithographs

COLLECTIONS

Saskatchewan Arts Board

City of Regina

Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina SK

The Hospitals Art Foundation, Regina SK

Private Collections

SASKATCHEWAN ARTS BOARD GRANTS

1986 Exhibition, Shape of Being, Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina SK

1985 Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop, Christopher Lake SK

1982 Travel/Study to galleries in New York and Washington DC

PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES

2020 Freelance Magazine, Spring 2020, SWG, Regina SK,

4 painting images published:

"Traces Left Behind - Enigmas #1" - Cover and p.3 detail

"The House" - p.16

"Sentinels & & Traces Left Behind - 1" - p.18 detail

2001 Leader Post, ’Show Records A Personal Journey’, review of Destinations, Jack Anderson

1987 Articule/Neutral Ground, Un Echange/An Exchange, catalogue, Linda Dornan and

Joan McNeil, curators

1984 Grain, The Dancer, watercolour, published in Vol. XII, NO. 1, February

OTHER ART RELATED ACTIVITIES

1999 Instructor, Drawing, Artists in Residence Program, Oct-Nov, Regina Beach SK

1997/1998 Instructor, Painting and Drawing, Regina Beach Parks and Recreation

1982-1984 Instructor, Painting and Drawing, Extension Department, University of Regina

Member, Board of Directors, Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina SK, 1999-2003

Member, Board of Directors, Neutral Ground, Regina SK, artist run gallery, 1983-1986