Artist
United States
Born in 1959
Joined Artisor: February 2024
Her roadmap to success avoids highways, and that’s the way she likes it.
Art Education
Plein Air Convention – Demonstrations by various artists, assistance at paint out locations –
April 24-April 29, 2019
Gold Leaf Workshop with Guennadi Kalinine – November 2016
Oil Painting Workshop with Donald Jurney – September 2015
Oil Painting Workshop at MISA with Marc Hanson September 2015
Oil Painting Workshop with Donald Jurney – October 2014
Hudson River School Landscape Workshop – Erik Koeppel – July 2014
Academy of Realist Art, Toronto – August 2011 – July 2014
Fanshawe College – Advertising Art with 1 year Fine Arts
Continuing Education – Acrylics, Watercolours, Chalk Pastels, Life Drawing and Art History
Exhibitions
2023 NOAPS Fall Online Show
2023 International Guild of Realism Online Show
2023 NOAPS Best of America Show – Aug. 2023
2023 17th Annual International Guild of Realism Show – June 2023
2023 NOAPS Best of America Small Works National Juried Exhibition – May
2023 OPA National – Jan. 2023
S2022 Salmagundi Club Thumb Box show – Dec. – Jan. 2023
2022 Mountain Oyster Club 2022 Show – Nov. 2022
2022 IGOR Fall Online Salon Exhibition – Oct – Dec 2022
2022 OPA Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils – Oct 2022
2022 Brush-off Competition – June – Oct. 2022
2022 Paint Ontario – Sept 2022
2022 NOAPS 32nd Best of America National Juried Exhibition – Sept. 2022
2022 NOAPS Best of America Small Works National Juried Exhibition – Apr 2022
2022 Salmagundi Club – Drawing and Print Show – July 2022
2022 IGOR 16th Annual Juried Exhibition – July 2022
2022 Plein Air Show – Westland Gallery – June 2022
2022 OPA 31st Annual National Juried Exhibition – May – Aug 2022
2022 NOAPS Best of America Small Works Show – Apr 2022
2021 Faded but Beautiful, Art of Emotions – York, ON – Oct. 2021
2021 Group Show Westland Gallery – Sept 2021
2021 NOAPS 31th Best of America National Juried Exhibition – Sept. 2021
2021 OPA Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils – Oct 2021
2021 NOAPS Associate Member Online Exhibition
2021 NOAPS Spring International Online Exhibition
2021 OPA Salon Show Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils – June 2021
2021 OPA 30th Annual National Juried Exhibition – June 2021
2020 NOAPS Fall International Online Exhibition
2020 OPA Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils – Nov. 2020
2020 NOAPS 30th Best of America National Juried Exhibition – Sept. 2020
2020 OPA Salon Show Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils – Aug 2020
2020 Paint Ontario – September 2020
2020 OPA 29th Annual National Juried Exhibition- Aug 2020
2020 IGOR 15th Annual Juried Exhibition – July 2020
2020 Realism Show Westland Gallery – July 2020
2020 NOAPS Spring International Online Exhibition
2020 NOAPS Best of America Small Works Show – Apr 2020
2020 AWA Spring Online – Mar 2020
2020 Group Show Westland Gallery – Jan 2020
2019 International Guild of Realism – Sept. 2019
2019 NOAPS Fall International Online Exhibition
2019 NOAPS Spring International Online Exhibition
2019 The Square Foot Show – Westland Gallery July 10-August 9, 2019
2019 Paint Ontario – March 26-April 20, 2019
2019 Realism Exhibition – Westland Gallery – March 26-April 13, 2019
2019 Women’s Day Exhibition – Westland Gallery – Mar 5 – Mar 23, 2019
2019 International Guild of Realism Winter Salon Online Exhibition – Mar 20 – May 20, 2019
2019 Best of America Small Painting National Juried Exhibition – Mar. 2019
2019 Westland Gallery Group Show – Jan. 2019
2018 Salmagundi Thumb Box Exhibition, Dec. – Jan 1
2018 Art Emporium by the River, The Great Art Contest – Nov-Dec. 2018
2018 NOAPS Fall 2018 International Online Exhibition – Fall 2018
2018 NOAPS Spring International Online Exhibition – Spring 2018
2018 OPA 27th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils – June 1 – Sept. 3
2018 Salmagundi Club Centennial Show – Jan. 2018
2018 Westland Gallery two man show – Jan. 12 – 27
2017 Mystery Palette Show, Salmagundi Club, NY, November 3
2017 International Guild of Realism (IGOR), Winfield Gallery, Carmel by the Sea, CA, September 23 – October 23
2017 ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI September 20 – October 8
2017 Post Art Prize Exhibit, Grand Rapids, MI October 16 – November 26
2017 Square Foot Show, Westland Gallery, London, ON, July 12 – August 11
2017 Canadian Landscape Show, Westland Gallery, London, ON June 20 – July 8
2017 A Journey into Realism, Westland Gallery, London, ON March 28 – April 15
2017 Paint Ontario, Lambton Heritage Museum, March 11 – April 2
2016 GetReal Artists premiere Exhibition, Visual Arts Mississauga, September 26 – October 27
2016 Root to Bloom, Places Artists Call Home Exhibition, Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA November – December
2016 The New Masters Art Exhibition, Carrier Gallery, Toronto, ON November 3 – December 5
2016 The Windjammer Autumn Salon, Port Stanley, ON, September 30 – November 20
2016 The Square Foot Show, Westland Gallery, London, ON July 13 – August 12
2016 5th Annual Plein Air Salon Online Juried Show, February, March
Awards and Acknowledgements
2023 Art & Color 365 Oils Competition – 3rd Place, Front Cover
2023 Five to Watch Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine Feb/Mar.
2023 September Plein Air Salon – Top 100 finalist
2023 The Great Migration Paint Out – Honourable Mention
2023 Perch n Paint Plein Air event – 3rd place
2023 Finalist for 3 pieces in the Almanara Art Prize online show.
2022 16th Annual Art Renewal Centre Finalist for 2 pieces.
2022 Salmagundi Club, “D. Wu and Elsie Ject-Ket Memorial Award” in SCNY’s 114th annual thumb-box exhibition
2022 Paint Ontario – Grand Prize
2022 Salmagundi Club – Certificate of Merit, Drawing and Print Show
2021 Signature Status Oil Painters of America – Dec. 2021
2021 IGOR Pioneer of Realism Award – Oct. 2021
2021 Perch n Paint Plein Air event – Grand Prize – Sept 2021
2021 Signature Status – National Oil and Acrylic Painter Society – Sept 2021
2020 Great Migration Paint Out – Grand Prize – Oct 2020
2020 Paint Ontario – Sponsor Choice Award
2020 Gateway International Painting Competition – Finalist – Mar 2020
2019 Art Renewal Center Salon – Honourable Mention
2019 Landscape Artist of the Year Canada – finalist
2019 Canvas Pontiac – Tangled displayed as 8’x10’ billboard in Pontiac, MI for 1 year
2018 NOAPS Fall 2018 International Online Exhibition – Award of Excellence
2018 LaNapoule Residency in France for two weeks (through GCA and LNAF) – Aug. 2018
2018 Art Renewal Centre – 13th International ARC Salon – Finalist for two paintings – February
2018 ArtMuse Finalist – January
2017 – Artwork Archive Online Competition – Editor Choice Award – November
2017 Art Renewal Centre Associate Living Master – September
2017 International Guild of Realism Show – Best Landscape – September
2017 ArtMuse Finalist – March
2017 Dacia Gallery, NY – finalist open call for submissions – September
2017 Paint Ontario, RoseMary Crosswell Award
2017 Member of the Salmagundi Club in New York, NY
2016 Art Renewal 12th International ARC Salon – finalist for two paintings – November
2016 BoldBrush Art Competition by FASO – 15% Juried FAV – September
2016 Paint Ontario – Grand Prize