Art was never considered as separate from the rest of my life. It was there in all that I did for as long as I can remember: not something to be considered as a career to be pursued and become a livelihood. However, it did become an important part of my career when I minored in Art as part of my Bachelor of Education Degree. One memory stands out, of the various classes I had taken: an abstract collage of bottle caps and dissected bottles and line drawing chosen for a special display.
I loved the Arctic landscape where my teaching career began and two commissioned works became my only claim to art sales for a long time. Teach Art became a profound learning tool, inspirational and practical. Elements of every aspect of art including its evaluation for a letter grade in my profession of teaching from 1969 to 2002, became a profound learning tool while Sunday painting at home became my private creative outlet.
My works were inspired by travel, mostly in Ireland and Wales, with a series of castles. I completed a long series of Egyptian works while studying Egyptian mysticism. Touring the Museums of Europe and Russia put a new perspective on my old experience of Art History from slides. Sales in private art shows and commissioned works fueled my continued passion for Art.
I am still mainly an intuitive artist drawing from the depth of my being for inspiration and images, though having taken recent formal classes, and especially the monthly critiquing of my recent works, have helped me discipline my passion into a more refined form.
I study the leading edge Art displays of the Alberta Art Gallery through the work I do as a volunteer, participant in the lectures and background reading related to the works.
An enlightening experience in the Devonian Gardens, painting Irises on Mid-Summers Eve 2004 with Eileen Sutton reconnected me to the Plein Air experience. Painting White Flowers with Willy Wong allowed me to experience floral design in a new way.
A week of water color painting became an exciting adventure in color with Frances Alty-Arscott at GMC last June. Currently, I am delving into the basics of drawing with Joanna Moore, as if seeing for the first time, a class still in progress.
Education:
Johannes Vloothuis : Painting Reflections 2007
B. Ed. U of A, English /Art 1977
Graduate Studies: Ed. Psych 1982-83
Esoteric Studies in Spiritual Disciplines 1983-2007
Volunteer Work in the EAG, not Alberta Museum of the Arts
Membership in the Edmonton Art Club 2003-2007
Art Shows:
Private Show: Northern Bear Club House Dining Room 2008
Critic's Choice City Hall 2008
Milner Library Gallery 2007
2007 Critic’s Choice EAC
2006 Manulife with the EAC
2006 Acrylics Solo show with the Misericordia
2005 Water Color Solo show with the Historical Center in Stony Plain
2005 EAC 84th Birthday and Centennial Show in the Wedgwood Room
2004 EAC Critic’s Choice City Hall
2004 EAC Manulife show in the City Centre
2003 Critic’s Choice City Hall
2002 EAC Johnson’s Gallery
Awards:
2006 Card-Alling Water Color Scholarship
2004 : Three firsts Northern Alberta Seniors Art Competition
2003: Two silver medals in the Seniors Games Art Competition email: enolan@shaw.ca
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