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I strive to capture the mood or atmosphere of a person or place in my pastels. I often work on toned paper, and let the colour
of the paper suggest what subject should go on it. Working on dark colours is particularly fascinating. I had never done much with chalk pastels
until I found them very agreeable to high school students, when I was teaching, as they made a bridge between drawing and painting. I determined
to use them myself when I had time, and they have become quite an obsession.
My art training is from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where I earned a BFA in 1959. I came to Toronto in 1962 and moved to New
Brunswick in 1977. I taught at the Sussex Regional High School from 1980 to 1996 and got involved with the Sussex Artists' Co-Op in the early nineties,
at its inception. Besides pastels, I also work in watercolour, gouache, oil, and acrylic. I am a mother of five and grandmother of nine. |
