Artistic Background, Exhibitions & Awards

ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE:

  • Watercolours
  • Painting
  • Life Drawing
  • Oil Pastels
  • Printmaking
  • Acrylics 

ARTISTIC EDUCATION:

Mexico:

  • Bellas Artes, San Miguel, Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Instituto Allende, San Miguel, Guanajuato, Mexico

Canada:

  • Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario
  • Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario
  • Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario
  • The Print Studio, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Gage Park, Hamilton, Ontario

 

PRIVATE INSTRUCTION:

 

San Miguel, Guanajuato, Mexico

  • Gerardo Ruiz, Printmaker
  • Henry Vermillion, Life Drawing
  • Britt Zaist, Painter
  • Mitzi Bidner, Painter
  • Carolina Parra, Printmaker
  • Maria del Carmen Urbina, Acrylics
  • Jose Antonio Elias Huerta, Watercolourist
  • Juan Carlos Cázares, Painter
  • Felipe López Licea, Printmaker
  • Gilberto Guerrero Sanchez, Printmaker
  • Angelas Couch, Painter and Colour Theorist
  • Oscar (Calle Mesones), Sculptor 
  • Assorted private studios of artists residing in San Miguel, Mexico

Hamilton and Waterdown, Ontario, Canada

  • Annamaria Pulley, Watercolourist, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Ronald Bruce, Watercolourist, Waterdown, Ontario
  • Patricia Koswik, Landscape Painter, Waterdown, Ontario
  • Katherine Zarull, Printmaker, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Allison Judd, Printmaker, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Colin Lyons, Copper etching in Printmaking, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Kathryn Bourbonniere ,Watercolourist, Burlington, Ontario
  • Kristina Kirkwood, Mixed Media Artist, Dundas, Ontario
  • Alison Sawatsky, Printmaker: Dundas, Ontario
  • Sandee Ewasiuk, Artist, Art Teacher, Painter, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Suzi Dwor, Fibre Artist, Collage,  Port Colborne, Ontario
  • Assorted private studios of artists residing in Canada

Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada

  • Richard Calver, Printmaker, Quadra Island, British Columbia
  • Nanci Cook, Life drawing, Quadra Island, British Columbia 

JURIED EXHIBITIONS:

  • John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Awarded: 2nd prize (2009)
  • City Playhouse Theatre, Vaughan, Ontario May-June (2010)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August  – November (2010)
  • City Playhouse Theatre, Vaughan, Ontario May-June (2011)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August –November (2011)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August-November(2012)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August-November(2013)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August-November(2014)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August-November(2015)
  • Art Gallery of Hamilton, COAA, Rhapsody in Colour, January-March (2016)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August-November(2016)
  • Art Gallery of Hamilton, COAA, Artistic Meanderings, June-August (2017)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August-November (2017)
  • Art Gallery of Hamilton, COAA, February-April (2018)
  • Dundas Museum and Archive, Dundas Ontario (COAA), April-June (2018)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August-October (2018)
  • Dundas Museum and Archive, Dundas Ontario (COAA), April-June (2019)
  • McMaster University, McMaster Innovation Park, August-October (2019)
  • Innovation Park, Hamilton, Ontario. June-August (2022)
  • Central Ontario Art Association, Dundas Museum, Dundas, Ontario ( Fall, 2022)
  • Central Ontario art Association, Dundas Museum, Dundas, Ontario (February – April, 2023)

SHOWS and SALES:

  • Private Venue: (Residential) Hamilton, Ontario, November 2009
  • Public Venue: “UNIQUE DESIGNS”: The Ancaster Town Hall, Ancaster, Ontario, June 2010 (Show envisaged and coordinated by Diane Maranger)
  •   Sunrise Gallery: Hamilton Ontario, October – November 2010
  •   Public Venue: “ART IN THE CHURCH”, programmed and designed cooperatively between Westdale United Church and the School of the Arts, McMaster University. Hamilton, Ontario, November-December, 2010
  •   Hamilton Art Gallery, Fall Art Sale, Hamilton, Ontario, October 31-November 3, 2013
  • Private Venue: (Residential) Hamilton, Ontario, September 2014
  • Public Venue: WHAT – West Hamilton Artist Tour, Hamilton, Ontario, May 2015
  • Public Venue: Gooderham Gallery, January-June 2016
  • Private Venue: (Residential) Hamilton, Ontario, September 2016