I have always drawn pictures, then Mom gave me a paint by number set when I was sixteen.  So fun.  And with the paint I had left over I painted a bear in a forest setting.   My Dad bought me a set of paints, brushes, canvases and a case. I have painted ever since.    I took a water colour course with Cecile Derkatch and loved it.  I paint with acrylic but my real love is oil.  I painted Jesus and the children in a Church, have done lots of wall murals, painted Easter, Christmas, Halloween, etc on windows.  So fun.  I retired and have taught children and adults  to paint with oil for the last twenty years.  So much fun to see people do such good work.  I have taken classes with Derek Wicks, Jerry Markham, Willie Wong, Doug Downey, Gene Prokop.  Classes with Doug Downey was knife painting in Newfoundland and it was wonderful.  I took only a knife and paint and wondered why I didn’t take my brushes.  But after a couple of days I found I loved the knife and I love sitting out in the wilderness using the knife.  I illustrated a book “The Fort Nelson Storey” by Gerry Young.  My heart and soul live for painting, drawing and anything in the Arts.