I am a local Artist born in Hamilton, but I spent most of my childhood and youth in northern Ontario, living and working at our family-owned fishing lodge on Sandy Island, Lake Nipissing.

After graduating from Sheridan College from the Classical Animation and Fine Arts program, I did some printing work before getting married shortly after. As my family quickly grew, raising four children became my main focus. I happily worked for many years at a local Garden Centre-Nursery, and later became an award-winning Floral Designer, and loved working in this field immensely.

In 2006, a serious spinal injury and subsequent surgery left me with some physical limitations that made it impossible to return to this kind of physically demanding work. After a lengthy recovery period and with great encouragement from my wonderful family, in 2008, I returned to my passion for art and started painting. I am self-taught in Acrylics and Soft Pastels, and I also work in Encaustic Mixed Media as well. Over the years, I have been teaching these creative art forms at the Art Gallery of Burlington, Capitol Arts Market, The Artists Workshop, The Cotton Factory, Back Alley Gallery, and in my home studio as well.

I have had a great response to my work, and my art can be found in various parts of Canada, the United States, and Europe. My work has also been showcased in the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Dingham Gallery, Toronto, Fieldcote Museum, Ancaster, and the Carnegie Gallery, Dundas. In 2024, I had a 4-month solo exhibition at Lynwood Arts Centre in Simcoe, Ontario.

In June of 2015, I spent a month in Italy and was Artist in Residence for 3 weeks at Palazzo Rinaldi, in the Village of Noepoli, Basilicata Region, Southern Italy. It was an amazing experience! I have also participated in several Art Shows and Studio Tours in the area. Oakville Art in the Park, Pelham Art Festival, Norfolk Studio Tour, and the Dundas Studio Tour, to name a few.

I am the past president of the Women’s Art Association of Hamilton, of which I have been a member since 2008. In 2014-2015, I was awarded the Hamilton Wentworth Heritage Award and the Ontario Volunteer Award, both for ongoing work in the arts community, and I have been awarded 5 People’s Choice Awards in the past 10 years. I have been a Co-facilitator of “Two Creative Art Retreats” since 2021.

My work can also be found at ART SPACE 106 GALLERY in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Woodstock Art Gallery Gift Shop.

We live in beautiful Norfolk County, and I am looking forward to many more years of painting and creating, teaching and learning, and finding inspiration everywhere I go.