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Paddy Gunn O'Brien
Paddy Gunn O’Brien was born in England in 1929. During World War Two she was evacuated to Canada and would spend five years (1940-1945) at Ovenden Ladies College, a boarding school in Barrie, Ontario ...P
Bonnie Parkinson
Bonnie Parkinson was born in December 1941 in London, Ontario. Her father, Harry Cluff, had shown promise as a young art student at H. B. Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario, but had unfortunately had to leave school to help his family financially. Parkinson’s father took a great interest in her early artistic talent and was very supportive when she entered the Special Art Programme at Beal, where she showed an innate artistic ability ...R
Tracy Root
Tracy Root was born in Shropshire, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1966 at the age of two. Root attended the University of Windsor where she studied Fine Arts, and now lives in London, Ontario. Tracy Root was among four London artists commissioned in 2012 to paint murals to combat graffiti in the city ...S
Gillian Saward
Born in England in 1934, Saward and her sister came to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan during World War Two, where they lived with a Canadian foster family from 1940 to 1945. While interested in art from childhood, it was not until return to England ...Dorothy (Betts) Seely-Smith
Dorothy Seely-Smith (née Betts) was born in 1890 in London, Ontario. She began her training in art with private lessons from local artists Caroline Farncomb and Florence Carlyle. Betts and fellow London artist Eva Bradshaw (another one of Carlyle’s students, who may have been her chaperone), travelled to New York City, to study at the New York School of Art ...V
Clémence van den Broeck
Clémence van den Broeck was born into an artistic family – her father, Pierre van den Broeck, was a well-known sculptor and the Inspector and Commissioner General of the Fine Arts in the Belgian government. Her love and talent for art from an early age and the connection to the arts community through her family led her to be able to study under the Flemish master painter Adolph Dellens (she was the only pupil he ever took on) and Edmond de Schampheleer ...Margarethe Vanderpas
Margarethe Vanderpas is a Dutch-born professional artist, graphic designer, and educator who studied Fine Arts at Western University from 1983 to 1985 under the instruction of Professors William Dale, Madeline Lennon, William Hart, Jose Barrio-Garay, Helmut Becker, Greg Ludlow, and Roly Fenwick ...W
