Education

1991  Graduated from OCAD

1990  Studied off campus in Florence Italy with Gerrald Lazar

Awards

2021 Salt Spring National Art Prize Jury Choice Award

2020 Mary Pratt Award -Society of Canadian Artist 52nd Open International Juried Exhibition

“Maire Kearns”

Paint Ontario-Art Competition-2nd prize “A Day in a Life of a Boy”

Colour and Form 68th Annual Open Juried Exhibition 3rd Prize for “Portrait of Ung Yol Park”

1996 Ontario Arts Council Grant with Greenthumb Arts Collective

1996 Ontario Arts Council Grant with Plural Arts Collective

1992 Elizabeth Greenshield Grant

1990 Elizabeth Forsyth Award

Solo Exhibition

2021   “A Graphic Nature” with Anne Randeraad, Headwaters Arts Gallery,

Alton Mill Arts Center, Alton

2020  “Cape Breton Highlands” Headwaters Arts Gallery. Alton Mill Art Center, Alton

Group Exhibitions

2021 SSNAP Finalist Salt Spring National Art Prize, BC

2021  Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (virtual)

          Visual Arts Mississauga 43rd Annual Juried Show-Mississauga, Ontario

          Society of Canadian Artist Online Juried Exhibition

          Ontario Society of Artist 148th Open Juried Virtual Exhibition

 2020  Colour and Form 68th Annual Open Juried Exhibition – Online

           Society of Canadian Artist 52d Open International Juried Exhibition-Online

           Visual Arts Mississauga 42nd Annual Juried Show -Mississauga, Ontario

           OSA Emerging Artists Exhibition – Milton, Ontario

 2019  Paint Ontario Juried show , Grand Bend, Ontario           

 2018  Colour and Form Biannual Members Juried show- Assembly Hall Toronto

           Visual Arts Mississauga 40th Juried Show

           SCA 50th Juried show – Todmorden Mills Toronto

          Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour  94th Annual Open Water Juried show  – John B Aird Gallery                    

 2017  Ontario Society of Artists 144th Juried Exhibition -John B. Aird Gallery Toronto

           SCA 49th Juried show – Todmorden Mills Toronto

           Portraits and Landscapes Group show at Beaux Arts Brampton

        Colour and Form 65thJuried Show  -Honourable Mention -Etobicoke Civic Center

           North Brampton Water Colour Society Annual Show at Alton Mills

2016   North Brampton Water Colour Society Annual Show at Alton Mills.

           Beaux-Arts Brampton Annual Members Show

Artist Residency

Cape Breton Highlands National Park Artist in Residence in Nova Scotia,

September to October 2019