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Barbara Landstreet
Barbara Landstreet (née Keenan) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the period after the Second World War. She was the third of four children. She attended the local Finiston Primary School, and then the Belfast Model School for Girls. After finishing school, she spent a year learning secretarial and office skills, including Pitman shorthand ...Sigrid Lochner
Sigrid Lochner (née Koenig) was born in Dresden, Germany (at that time, East Germany or the German Democratic Republic). Lochner was influenced by her paternal grandmother who bestowed upon her an appreciation of nature ...M
Johnnene Maddison
Johnnene Maddison was born in 1943 in Detroit, Michigan. At the time of her birth, her father, John, was serving overseas in World War Two and, sadly, would not return. When her father left home in 1942, her expectant mother Delphine went to live with her parents, three unmarried sisters, and young brother ...Doris Murray
Doris Murray was born in Princeton, New Jersey. She graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts with a BA in Zoology with a minor in Art. Despite this multidisciplinary background, Murray did not devote herself to painting until over a decade after graduating ...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
Wanda Sawicki
Wanda Sawicki was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In 1960, her family moved to Southern Ontario, and then to London, Ontario a few years later. Sawicki’s mother used drawing as an aid to teach young Wanda to read and write Polish ...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 ...W
