Audna has been painting for nine years. Although she took a drawing
course while at Concordia University, recently took a workshop at the
MMFA, a course at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount, and has received
a little instruction from Gisele Lapalme and Hilary Ravenscroft Ford as
well as very helpful advice from retired Corcordia art professor Mervyn
Dewes, she is largely self-taught.
She enjoys, to date, painting
landscapes with a water theme, perhaps influenced by fond memories of
childhood summers spent in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She also
enjoys painting portraits.
Nee a Montreal, Audna H.
Smith a habite a Beaconsfield pendant vingt-huit ans, pres du Lac St.
Louis, et puis a Como et Hudson pour dix-huit ans.
Audna
peingnait neuf ans; elle a pris un cours en dessin quand elle etait au
Universite Concordia, recemment aux MMFA et au Visual Arts Centre a
Westmount. Elle a aussi recu instructions des artistes d'Hudson, Gisele
Lapalme et Hilary Ravenscroft Ford, et Professor Mervyn Dewes, qui
enseignait a Universite Concordia, lui a donne du conseil apprecie. Mais
vraiement, elle est une artiste autodidacte.
Elle aime, a
present, peindre des paysages au sujet de l'eau, peut-etre a cause des
souvenirs d'etes passe en enfance au Cantons de l'Est. Elle aime, aussi,
peindre des portraits.




Audna Smith
Telephone: 450-458-3387
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