In 1980
I began painting full time in acrylics and selling my pieces privately and at shows. Over the next five
years,
my husband Marty and I created and produced our own unique patterns and wood
pieces.
Because of high quality and customer satisfaction, his wood pieces are
in demand throughout Canada and the United States, and are finding a
growing
market as far away as Japan.
In the early 1980's, we realized
our dream of having a log cabin studio by purchasing an old farmstead
with
the original, but derelict, 1835 settler's cabin. A lot of
blood,
sweat and tears went into disassembling and reconstructing the old
cabin
in a new location on the property. In 1986, I began
teaching art classes, and in 1988, we opened a studio in the basement of
our
home where I taught beginners, intermediate and advanced classes, and
Marty
used the cabin as a woodworking shop.
The cabin progressed from
work shop to classroom, and now functions as a retail store with painting supplies as well as painted and unfinished wood
pieces
in pine and oak. Our modern studio and Marty's woodworking
shop now
adjoin it. It is open to the public by chance or by appointment
In 1997, a long way from
purple bunnies on yellow walls, I found myself halfway around the world
teaching my decorative art patterns to students in Japan, some of
whom
had been among the first students in my basement classes.
I now have over 300 pattern packets which are distributed across Canada and the United
States,
as well as publications in magazines such as Paint Works and Coup de Pinceau. Unfinished
wood
pieces for each packet are available through this web site and our
catalogue.
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