Biography

Kerry was born in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Sociology) in 1991 and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Visual Communications Design in 1996. Kerry worked with Environmental Protection as a Visual Communications Designer and assisted a local artist run a fine art and graphics company. She has since worked on various Desktop Publishing / Braille publishing / Illustration projects for the Alberta Government. 

Recently her landscape paintings were shown at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Rental and Sales. Kerry has previously exhibited her work at the Johnson Gallery, Edmonton City Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Manulife Place, the Edmonton City Hall, and the Solaris Gallery in New Jersey. She also participated in the city "Art Walks", exhibiting work at the St.Thomas Cafe and The Coffee Cup Cafe in St.Albert, Alberta.

 In 2001, Kerry's floral paintings were published by the "Romantic Card Company". Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin has purchased two oil landscape paintings for their collection. In 2006, Kerry exhibited her work at the St. Albert Profiles Public Gallery in a group exhibition called "Colorscapes".

"I enjoy the spontaneity and the expressionistic process involved in creating abstract images and the freedom to experiment with color and various mediums. My influences are Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Helen Frankenthaler, Wassily Kandinsky, and Emily Carr."

Kerry has also donated her work for various charity auctions over the years such as the Ottawa Humane Society, Laugh for Life, Funds to End Breast Cancer, Voices for Hospices Singing Event, and Canadian Red Cross RespectED.

"I paint both landscape and botanical themes alternating between abstract and representational images. My work is inspired by nature’s endless arrangements of line, color and form. I also enjoy exploring different ways of portraying landscapes through creative compositions and color combinations. The prairie landscapes, the mountain valley, and the colorful southwest landscape in New Mexico are some of  the locations that have inspired my series of simplified, colorful and flowing compositions. "

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