Bio

I have always known that I wanted to be an art teacher. I went to U of T in the late seventy's taking the Art Education Program, with studios at Sheridan College. I finished teacher's college but there were no teaching jobs. So I started a family, and drove school bus until we moved our family to Grey County. I worked at a craft store called The Nautilus and Arts and Crafts in Scarborough, Ont. We had started to sell stained glass supplies and wood carving tools, so I learned those skills. I learned to paint decoy ducks with a gentleman customer. He taught me carving skills in his basement and for years we carved together. He was in his forties and I was in my early twenties. I was affectionately known to his friends as the "carving girlfriend". My husband and I would enjoy Christmas parties at their house for several years before we left the area to move to Grey County.

I had three beautiful daughters and once they were old enough and I felt comfortable, I left them at the sitters to start teaching full time. I have taught in various wood shops and classrooms around the county. Eventually I  specialized in Special Education and taught for eight years at Hincks Farm in the Beaver Valley.

I did take some time to establish and run my own business called "Woodwright, Custom Woodworking Done by a Woman", out of a shop in Flesherton, Ontario. I opened a show room in the King's Court in Thornbury for several years in the ninties.

In 2007 I have stared to paint in acrylic with Cynthia Marsh in Clarksburg, Ontario.

Now that I can see the retirement light at the end of the teaching career, I look forward to being a fulltime artist and painting with the morning light.