Hi, I'm Serena,
...let me tell you about my mission to paint your stories!
I remember drawing my first "good" sketch around 7 years old. It was on a chalkboard, and I don't think I wiped it away for months. Later, I began creating art for friends, and that eventually turned into a full time mural painting business.
When I became a mother I put down my brush for a while, to focus on raising my children. Now that they're older, I've traded murals for canvas, and my focus is on painting the stories of incredible people, like yourself! I strive to portray moods, from exhilaration to the deepest sadness, expressing these with the dance between light, shadow and colour.
As a figure and portrait painter I was so excited when I was accepted to show my work at The Chapel Gallery in a solo show called Passages. The theme was a woman's healing journey when faced with illness, loss or abuse. You can see a few of these pieces in my shop, and read about the emotions behind them in my blog.
Most days you can find me painting in my studio in the quaint town of Bracebridge, Canada - my stereo turned up - LOUD!
As minutes turn into hours, I get lost in the texture and colours of the oil paints and forget the challenges that hustling hard as a single mom to two young boys can bring. When I'm not painting, you can find me and my two boys enjoying nature. We love to sled, hike, bike and ski.
I love connecting with you and hearing about your wins, your struggles, your accomplishments and your future goals. I use these conversations to create moving portraits and figure paintings that convey epic moments in your life. The struggles, dreams, fears and victories of being human are woven into each of my pieces. Follow me on my journey, painting the stories of incredible people...like you!!
When I became a mother I put down my brush for a while, to focus on raising my children. Now that they're older, I've traded murals for canvas, and my focus is on painting the stories of incredible people, like yourself! I strive to portray moods, from exhilaration to the deepest sadness, expressing these with the dance between light, shadow and colour.
As a figure and portrait painter I was so excited when I was accepted to show my work at The Chapel Gallery in a solo show called Passages. The theme was a woman's healing journey when faced with illness, loss or abuse. You can see a few of these pieces in my shop, and read about the emotions behind them in my blog.
Most days you can find me painting in my studio in the quaint town of Bracebridge, Canada - my stereo turned up - LOUD!
As minutes turn into hours, I get lost in the texture and colours of the oil paints and forget the challenges that hustling hard as a single mom to two young boys can bring. When I'm not painting, you can find me and my two boys enjoying nature. We love to sled, hike, bike and ski.
I love connecting with you and hearing about your wins, your struggles, your accomplishments and your future goals. I use these conversations to create moving portraits and figure paintings that convey epic moments in your life. The struggles, dreams, fears and victories of being human are woven into each of my pieces. Follow me on my journey, painting the stories of incredible people...like you!!
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Listen to my Radio Podcast Interviews below...
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Tune in here where I speak about the recent show Through Her Eyes, In Her Hands with over 20 women artists from Muskoka and area - myself included - who joined together to celebrate Women in the Arts, just in time for International Women's Day 2019
Tune in here where I speak about the recent show Through Her Eyes, In Her Hands with over 20 women artists from Muskoka and area - myself included - who joined together to celebrate Women in the Arts, just in time for International Women's Day 2019
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Listen to this podcast episode where I discuss my solo show Passages. Held last year with the theme of surviving and thriving through emotional and physical loss, grief and abuse.