Born in Quebec and raised in Ontario, Vicki has had a life long interest in painting. She has painted professionally since 1990 after winning the "Best of Show" award in her first public exhibit with the Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists.
Primarily self-taught, with additional tutoring from top international instructors, Vicki’s inspiration has resulted in her passion for the pastels which has become her preferred medium of choice. Workshops and involvement with local art groups make her education on going.
Vicki has been recognized for her dramatic skies, colourful responses to subtle fluctuations of light that dance across the landscape. Favouring rural settings around the Great Lakes region she paints en plein air as well as from her studio in Guelph, ON. Since 1990 Vicki has been a signature member of the Pastel Artists Canada and she is also a Member of the Central Ont. Art Assoc., Past President of the Guelph Creative Arts Assoc. and active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
Vicki's work has been featured in International Artists & Pastel Artists Magazines and is a regular participant in local art auctions and group exhibits, to her credit she has received over 40 awards, with the most recent being the Best of Show in the International Worldwide Plein Air Painting competition in Niagara Falls, earlier in 2007 she was pleased to receive the Best of Show award in 'Paint Ontario' annual juried show in Lambton Museum, Grand Bend. In May 2007 she had a solo exhibit at the Guelph Civic Museum focused around the century old Jesuit Retreat and Farming Community in Guelph.
Vicki has participated in over 110 Invitational and juried shows since 1990 and has been a plein air instructor for the Wellington Museum of Summer School arts program sharing her experience and knowledge of the pastel medium. Her work is currently represented by Barber Gallery, McDonald Stewart Gallery, Marten Fine Arts Gallery, Glenhyrst Art Gallery and Gallery On the Grand.
