Awards, Exhibitions, Education & Special Projects

Awards

2026 -Honorable Mention, Reflections Mt Edith Cavell, FCA National Artists Choice Show, Federation Gallery Vancouver

2024 – 2d Place, Rosebud Plein Air Paintout , Acrylic, Rosebud Country

2022 – 1st Place,  Plus Beaux Village, Acrylic, FCA Peace River Chapter

2022 – Honorable Mention, Early Morning, Acrylic, FCA National Signature Show, Federation Gallery Vancouver

2021 – 1st Place, Rosebud Plein Air Paint Out,  Acrylic, Rosebud Country

2021 – Honorable Mention, Twilight, Acrylic,  FCA National Show, Federation Gallery Vancouver, Landscapes Show

2021 – 1st Place, Heading Home, Acrylic, FCA Peace River Chapter, Northern Lives Show

2020 – 1st Place, Cabin Trail, Saddle Hills, Acrylic, FCA National Show, Federation Gallery Vancouver, Landscapes Show

2020 – 1st Place, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, Acrylic, FCA, Peace River Chapter, Fleeting Moments Show

2019 – 1st Place, “Sundown” Acrylic, FCA, Peace River Chapter, A World of Contrast Show

2019 – 1st Place, “Bouquet”, Acrylic, FCA, Peace River Chapter, A Spring Fling Show

2018 – Honorable Mention, “Momma” Acrylic FCA, Federation Gallery Vancouver, Go Figure Show

2018 – 3d Place, “Chicken Coup”, Acrylic, FCA Peace River Chapter, Greening Up Show

2016 – 2d Place, “Homestead” Watercolor, FCA, Peace River Chapter, the Short & The Long of It Show

2015 – Honorable Mention, “Peas & Carrots”, Acrylic, FCA, Peace River Chapter, Artists Choice Show

2015 – 1st Place and People’s Choice, “Five Old Hoes”, Acrylic, FCA, Peace River Chapter, Permission to Dance Show

2014 – Honorable Mention, “Midnight Rider”, Watercolor, Art of the Peace, Home is Where the Art is Show

2013 – 2d Place, “Sunrise”, Watercolor, FCA, Peace River Chapter, Peace Landscapes Show

2013 – People’s Choice, “Morning Flight”, Watercolor, FCA Peace River Chapter, Peace Without Borders Show

1995 – Artists Choice, Canada Winter Games Show

1990 – Weyerhaeuser Christmas Card Contest Winner

1986 – Program Cover, Fairview Summer School of Landscape Art

Special Projects

2025 – Mural Project, WG McFarlane Survey Crew 5 Paintings 1909-1910, Beaverlodge Mural Society Project

2025 – Frocks & Fashions, a show of vintage dresses & fashions from the 1950’s to 1970’s, Sexsmith Museum Society

2024 – Mural Project, WG McFarlane Surveyor 1909-1910, Beaverlodge Mural Society Project

2023 – Mural Project, Rutebaga Johnson,  Beaverlodge Mural Society Project

2022 – Joined Mountain Galleries At Fairmont Hotels, Jasper, Banff, Whistler & Victoria

2021 – Painting Fundraiser Donation Project of 8 Acrylic Paintings to  Sexsmith Museum Society

2020 – Fly In Trip to Cariboo Mountains -Mike Svob Paint&Create

2019 Trip to Alaska collecting images for future work

2017 Trip to Italy collecting images for Travel With Me Show Dawson Creek 2018

2017 Painting Trip to Newfoundland for Show Images for Where Ya To Images Of The East Coast

2016 Painting Trip to Vancouver Island West Coast for Show Images Float Your Boat – Images Of The West Coast

2016 Joined Grant Berg Gallery

2014 Sketches for fictional Novel written by Historian David Leonard called Trail to Assumption

2013 Mural Project Points West Living

2013 Mural Project – Peace Wapiti School Division – 2 Kinuso Falls Images

2011 Presentation of Pipestone Creek Watercolor at Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum Ball to Dan & Donna Ackroyd

2011 to Date County of Grande Prairie – Farm Family Presentation Paintings

2010 to 2022 Catholic Education Services – Long Term Service Awards

2010 Sexsmith Rainier Baseball Team – 25th Year Reunion Project

2009 to 2021 Peace Wapiti School Division – Long-Term Service Award Series

2004 – 2014 QE II Hospital Foundation Festival Of Trees Set Design & Painting

– Set 2 –  2009-2014 Festival of Trees over 10000 sq ft Set Design & Painting with a North Pole Theme

– Set 1 – 2004 – Festival of Trees over 3000 sq ft Set Design & Painting with a Winter Wonderland Theme

2004 QEII Hospital Foundation Christmas Card Design Project

2003 Sexsmith Museum Society – License Plate Sculpting & Historical Sign Project

2002 La Glace Cairn Society – Chief La Glace Cairn Sculpting Project

2001 QEII Hospital Foundation – Artist’s Rendering Selection – QE II Hospital Image

1988 Town of Sexsmith – Outdoor Mural Project – Sexsmith Railway Scene

Education

2025 – Artist In Residence, Mountain Galleries, Mont Tremblant                   Quebec

2025 – Workshop – Brent Lynch – Calgary

2024 – Artist In Residence, Mountain Galleries, Jasper Park Lodge

2019 – Plein Air in the Cariboo Mountains – Mike Svob

2019 – Acrylic Abstracts – Susan Woolgar – Grande Prairie

2019 – Watercolor Florals – Marney Rose Edge – Grande Prairie

2017 – Acrylic Workshop – Mike Svob – Calgary

2016 – Acrylic workshop – David Langevin

2014 – Paint & Create – Paris & South of France with Mike Svob

2011 – FCA Gabriola Island Workshops – Alan Wylie, Stan Miller, Neil Patterson, Mark Hobson and mentoring with Robert Genn

2009 – Designing with Color – Mike Svob – Northern Lights College, Ft. St. John

2008 – McNaught Workshop – Watercolor – Jerry Heine

2007 – McNaught Workshop – Watercolor – Brent Laycock

2006 – CSPWC – Art Symposium Watercolor Workshops – Robert Sinclair, Ray Cattall, Larry Cromwell, Tim Packer and Marianne Hunt

2003 – Watercolor/Mixed Media workshop – Jean Pederson, Calgary, AB

2002 – A Glance at Glazes with Cheryl Brown, Grande Prairie, AB

2001 – Wheel Throwing – Susan Williams, Centre for Creative Arts, Grande Prairie

2000 – Wheel Throwing – Bibi Clement, Centre for Creative Arts, Grande Prairie

1999 – Pottery with Yasuo Tirada of Japan and Bibi Clement, BICWA Anigama International Workshop, Hythe, AB

1998 – Wheel Throwing with Cheryl Brown, Grande Prairie, AB

1992 – Prairie North Workshop – Open Studio – Grande Prairie Regional College

1990 – Watercolor with Jim Adrain, Grande Prairie, AB

1990 – Watercolor with Dave More – Red Deer College of Arts, Series Course

1989 – Wheel throwing with Tim Scott & Arthur Huette – Grande Prairie Creative Arts

1988 – Wheel throwing with Niboro Kubo – Red Deer College of Arts, Series course

1990 Mentorship with Euphemia McNaught thru the Peace Watercolor Society

1986 – Drawing with Robert Guest – Fairview College Summer Art Program

1981/82 – Landscape oil painting with Robert Guest – Grande Prairie Regional College

Exhibitions

2026 – Juried FCA Vancouver National Show, Artists Choice 2026

2025 – Frocks & Fashions, a Show of Vintage Dresses & Fashions from 1950’s to 1970’s, Sexsmith Museum Society

2024 – Prairie Soul’s Label Wine Launch Grant Berg Gallery, Grande Prairie

2022 – Juried FCA Peace River Chapter Show, Beauty Defined

2022 – Juried FCA Vancouver National Show, Limitless

2022 –  Group Exhibition, Sandboe, Haakstad, Heimdal, Stokes , Ten Dollars & A Dream, Heritage Discovery Centre, Kin Gallery, Grande Prairie

2021 – Solo Exhibition, BACS Gallery, Beaverlodge, AB, Where Ya To? – Images of the East Coast revisited

2021 – Juried FCA National Landscape Show Federation Gallery Vancouver BC

2021 – Juried FCA Peace River Chapter, Northern Lives Show, Ft. St. John BC and Online

2020 – Juried FCA Signature Medal Show, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC and Online

2020 – Solo Exhibition-2020 Collection, Grant Berg Gallery,  Grande Prairie

2020 – Juried FCA National Show, Landscapes,  Federation Gallery Vancouver, BC and Online

2020 – Juried FCA Peace River Chapter, Fleeting Moments Show, eace Gallery  North Ft. St. John and Online

2019 – Juried FCA Peace River Chapter, A World of Contrast, Centre for Creative Arts Grande Prairie, AB

2019 – Solo Exhibition, Mountain High, Berg Gallery Kananaskis AB

2019 – Juried FCA Peace River Chapter Show, Spring Fling, Dawson Creek Art Gallery, BC

2018 – Solo Exhibition, Travel With Me, Dawson Creek Art Gallery, BC

2018 – Juried FCA, Go Figure Show, Federation Gallery Vancouver, BC

2018 – Juried FCA, Peace River Chapter, Greening Up, Peace Gallery North, Ft St John BC

2018 – Juried FCA, POTE International Show, Federation Gallery Vancouver, BC

2018 – Juried FCA, Artists Choice Show, Federation Gallery Vancouver, BC

2017 – Solo Exhibition, Where Ya To? – Images of the East Coast, Grant Berg Gallery, Grande Prairie

2017 – Solo Exhibition, A Little Bit of Country, Art Gallery of Grande

2016 – Solo Exhibition, – Float Your Boat–Images of the West Coast, Grant Berg Gallery, Grande Prairie

2016 – Juried FCA,Peace River Chapter, The Long & The Short of It, Peace Gallery North, Ft St John BC

2015 – Juried FCA, Peace River Chapter, Artists Choice Show, Beaverlodge, AB

2015 – Juried FCA, Peace River Chapter – Permission to Dance, CCA Grande Prairie, AB

2015 – Juried AFA, TREX Travelling Exhibition, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie Art – Sunrise

2014 – Juried Art of the Peace – Home Is Where the Art Is – Art Gallery of Grande Prairie

2004 – 2013 – QEII Hospital Foundation Festival of Trees +8000 sq ft set design & painting.

2013 – Juried FCA, Peace River Chapter, Peace Landscapes Show, Dawson Creek

2013 – Juried FCA, Peace River Chapter, Peace Without Borders Show, Beaverlodge, AB

2013 – Mural Projects – Points West Living and Mirage Holistic Spa, Grande Prairie

2012 – Juried FCA, Peace River Chapter, Peace Squared Show, CCA Grande Prairie

2012 – Juried FCA, Peace River Chapter, Peace Connections, Peace Gallery North, Ft St John BC

2012 – Art of the Peace Magazine Cover and Featured Artist Articles & Images

2011 – Juried Show, Art of the Peace Travelling Exhibition – On Dry Dock

2011 – Guest Artist, Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum Inaugeral Dino Ball, presentation of “Pipestone Creek” Watercolor to Dan Ackroyd and Donna Dixon Ackroyd

2011 – Juried FCA, Peace River Chapter, New Beginnings, Dawson Creek Art Gallery, BC

2009 – Juried Show, CSPWC, Open Water ‘09”, Leighton Art Centre , Calgary, AB

2009 – Juried Show, Art of the Peace, 2009 Governor General Fine Arts Awards/Iskoteo Arts Festival, Grande Prairie, AB

2004 – Solo Exhibition, Journey, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB

2003 – Solo Exhibition, Wilderness Trail, Front Gallery, Edmonton, AB

2003 – Juried Show, Alberta Society of Artist, What We Do Best, Edmonton City Hall, AB

2002 – Juried Show, Alberta Society of Artists, Leighton Art Centre, Calgary, AB

2000 – Solo Exhibition, Retrospect & Beyond, BACS Gallery, Beaverlodge, AB

1997 – Featured with Alberta Artists by Artist/Potter Bibi Clements on Lecture in Seto and Tokaname Japan

1997 – Solo Exhibition, Roundup, Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB

1995 – Juried Exhibition, 1995 Canada Winter Games, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie

1993 -1995 – AFA, When the North Freezes, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie TREX

1993 – Solo Exhibition,,Harvest of Gold, Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB

1993 – Solo Exhibition, BACS Gallery, Beaverlodge, AB

1991 – Juried Exhibition, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB

1991 – Solo Exhibition,Touring the Peace, Unique Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB

1991 to 2014 Peace Watercolor Society Bi-Annual Regional Exhibitions, Grande

Prairie, Dawson Creek, Ft St John, Grande Cache, Fairview, Beaverlodge

1989 – Juried Exhibition, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB

1976 – Juried Exhibition, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB