I've been drawing and painting for most of my life. As a kid, I only wanted to do my "arts and crafts." I had a crafts corner in the basement with every art and craft under the sun, from weaving to painting to plaster casts, felt, and pipe cleaners. My mother would take me to Lewiscraft in Toronto to stock up on supplies. I looked forward to those outings. My whole body lit up when I went into an art supply store, and it still does. I realize now that my arts and crafts gave me space and ease that I didn't get anywhere else.
I sold my first piece of art at age 10. My mother's interior decorator paid me $300 to duplicate a picture I made at school. By the time I was 16, I was in business selling character drawings to my parent's friends for special occasions. My grandfather was in the manufacturing and importing business and found a supplier for frames that I could put together myself. I made 8"x 8" drawings and framed them in my bedroom. This led me to the Parsons School of Design in New York, The American College in Paris, and the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, where I studied graphic design and photography and went on to a 30-year career as a brand strategist, marketer, creative director, business growth specialist, international speaker, and published author (Know Your Difference, 2011).
In 2023, my niece saw my art on Instagram and asked me to paint something as a wedding gift. This sparked a new creative journey, and I decided to share my art with the world.
With the world's craziness and so many frantic people everywhere, my time doing art does the same for me now as it did back then. I can paint for hours and not notice the time. I feel calm, relaxed, and happy when painting, so I keep painting and painting and painting.
So, welcome to my vibrant world. I invite you to let the energy of my abstract acrylic pieces fill your mind and space with the ease, calm, playful magic, fun, and happiness I've experienced while creating them.
