Information and Biography “I have been painting as long as I can remember. I paint with oils, acrylics, inks and encaustics. My mission, quite simply, is to find a way to paint the world I live in with beauty, truth and a little mystery.” My latest work consists of landscape paintings. My subject is the bush and land at my doorstep, my mediums are acrylics and the ancient wax based encaustic paints, and the results are richly layered paintings of sensual and mysterious fragments of country side. The series of paintings now hanging at the Cambridge Gallery are the result of an attempt to really see the land at my feet, to pare this picture down to an essence of the elements involved and to produce a semi abstracted version of my reality. I am dedicated to painting and been involved in the arts in Eastern Ontario for the past 25 years. I was a member of the inaugural company at the Thousand Islands Playhouse and have designed numerous productions at the Playhouse including “Blessings in Disguise“, “My Fair Lady“ and “Quarry“. I had the pleasure of coordinating the Gallery at the Playhouse for several years, teach drawing, adjudicate art exhibitions and produced the juried exhibition “Bones of the Mother” at St. Lawrence Island National Park in 2005. My paintings have been accepted in juried shows in Canada and the US. My work hangs in private and corporate collections across Canada, in the US and Denmark. I am represented by the Eldon Gallery in Waterloo, Cracker Crumbs Studio in Gananoque and am a member of the Organization of Kingston Women Artists. My studio is on Marble Rock Road, north of Gananoque, which truly is in the heart of the Thousand Islands.
Cambridge Design Gallery Show June 2008
Although I am not teaching at this time, impromptu sessions breakout at my studio on a regular basis.... 
Jeanette and Hannah painting
in front of the studio
Hannah and Jean with their encaustic creations....woo hoo!!!
BIOGRAPHY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Cambridge Design Gallery, Ottawa, July 2008
The Verb Gallery, Kingston, ON, May 2007
Nuttall Gallery, Gananoque, ON, January 2003
Eldon Gallery, Waterloo, ON, November 2002
Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque, ON, July 2008May 1999, June 2000,
and June/July 2001, June 2003
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
North Country Regional Juried art Show, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, New York, July/August 2002, 2003 and 2006
Kingston Regional Arts Council Juried Exhibition Spring 2002, Kingston Public Library, May 2002
Third regional juried exhibit, ‘Year One’, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, January 2001;
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Organization of Kingston Women Artists, Kingston:
Groups shows in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 Kingston Public Library and the Kingston Arts Council
Thousand Islands Parkway invitational studio tour, guest artist,October 2002, October 2003
Exhibition with Michele LaRose at the Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque, August 2002
Exhibition with Donna Brown, Grand Theatre, Kingston, August 2000
Brave Art - New Visions
- Brockville Arts Centre, Brockville, January 2002
- Cornwall Regional Art Gallery, Cornwall, August 2002
- Brockville Arts Centre, Brockville, January, 2000
Ongoing at The Eldon Gallery, Waterloo
OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES
Coordinator of the Gallery at the Playhouse, selecting and organizing
exhibits for 30 plus artists annually for 2003 and 2004
Represented by the Eldon Gallery, 14 King St., Waterloo, ON
Teaching life drawing class in Gananoque since 1998
Juror and keynote speaker for ‘Paint and Palette’ juried exhibit at the
Nuttall Gallery, January 2004
Juror and organizer for juried art exhibit celebrating the 100th
anniversary of the St. Lawrence Islands National Park, summer 2004
AFFILIATIONS
Organization of Kingston Women Artists
Kingston Regional Arts Council
Kingston Artists' Association Inc.
Artworks in Progress, Gananoque
THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
A graduate of the National Theatre School (Design 1979), I have work extensively in theatres across Canada as a designer, scenic artist, and marketer as well as assisting in most other areas of the theatre as needed. I have toured shows in both Saskatchewan and Ontario, am a founding member of the Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, and adapted and developed plays for youngsters at the public school level.
THEATRICAL SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque
“Love & Larceny” Set Design - August 2004
"Blessings In Disguise" Set Design - September 2003
"My Fair Lady" Set Design -July 2003
"The Drawer Boy" Set & Costume Design - Sept 2002
also at Gravenhurst, 2002 & Lighthouse Festival, 2003)
"Quarry" Set Design - September 2001
"For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again"
Set & Costume Design - October 2000
Kingston Symphony, Grand Kingston
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Set & Costume Design - January 2005
Theatre Kingston, Kingston
“The Dressing Room” Set & Costume Design - January 2004
"How I Learned to Drive" Set & Costume Design - November 2002
"Perfect Pie" Set & Costume Design - February 2001
Queen's University Drama Department, Kingston
"Les Belle Soeurs" Set Design - January 2003
Various lectures and demos on set design and scenic painting - 2002 - 2005
Set & Costume Designer in theatres throughout Canada(1979- 1985)
Globe Theatre, Regina;
Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg;
Magnus Theatre, Thunder Bay;
Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque
(Founding member of the Thousand Islands Playhouse, 1981)
EDUCATION
1997-2002 St.Lawrence College Summer School of the Arts, Brockville
Painting & Drawing
1989 Queens University
Enrolled in a BA program (Drama)
1987 The Banff Centre for the Arts (Toronto seminars)
Marketing for the Arts
Fundraising for the Arts
1984 -1985 Ontario College of Art, Toronto
Communications & Design
1978 - 1980 National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal
Design: Degree 1980
1976 - 1977 College of New Caledonia, Prince George. B.C.
Theatre and Fine Arts
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Worked to help establish the inaugural Festival of the Islands in Gananoque
Taught art classes to children and adults
Taught and developed Shakespearean plays at the elementary school level
Re-established the Gananoque Nursery School
President and coach with the Gananoque Ringette Association
Coach and trainer with the Gananoque Girls Hockey Association
Coach and sponsor of the Leeds & Lansdowne Minor Ball Association
