BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

MA Fine Art 2011 (with distinction) City and Guilds of London Art School, London, UK
BFA, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
B.Ed, Queen’s University (Artist in the Community Education Program) Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Honours Specialist Visual Art, Queen’s (McArthur College)
2008 Angel Academy of Art Florence Italy – Received a grant to study Old Masters’ Painting materials and techniques.
2000 One year, Self-funded leave from teaching position to paint and to live in NYC (6 months)

SOLO SHOWS

GROUP SHOWS

Kingston Prize Finalist Exhibition (National Portrait Competition) Gananoque, ON Canada. October 6 - October 27, 2023
Figureworks Exhibition, Ottawa Ontario, Canada, November 2019
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam NL – "Long Live Rembrandt" juried exhibition (among selected works from 8,390 submissions from 95 countries) July 15 - September 15, 2019
RAW Artists Ottawa, St. Brigid’s Center for the Arts, March 1, 2019
Red Poppy Gallery, November 1st to December 13, 2018
MA Fine Art Graduation Exhibition 2011, City and Guilds of London Art School, London, UK
The Canadian Portrait: Cube gallery March 4 - April 5, 2009
Stafford Gallery Group Exhibition, Annually 2005 to 2009

AWARDS

People’s Choice Award – The Kingston Prize (National Portrait Award/Exhibition October 2023)
Canada Council for the Arts – Research and Creation Grant. May 2023 - May 2024
Canada Council for the Arts – Research and Creation Grant. March 2022 - March 2023.
People’s Choice Award – Figureworks Exhibition - November 2019
Marjorie Loughery Lifetime Achievement Award, Visual Arts (Ottawa Advisory Committee for the Arts) 2018
Portrait Society of Canada Juried National Portrait Competition – Certificate of Merit 2015
Dr. S.G.B. Robinson Traveling Fellowship Award 2008
Ottawa Advisory Committee for the Arts – Visual Arts Educator Award 2005

DONATIONS

“An Evening with Abigail” Painting sold at auction to raise money to combat women’s cancers

COMMISSIONS