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Kick off of "Glad Days" campaign
for York Region Epilepsy which Valerie actively supports. From left to right:
Lee Tregwin (former program director), Frank Klees (MPP for the region), Erica
deGroot, Amanda deGroot, Jaclyn Clarke (all active campaigners), and Valerie.
August, 2002 |
Art
Education
Ecole des Beaux Arts Montreal, Quebec 1966-67
Concordia
University Montreal, Quebec B.F.A. 1965-70
University of Iowa Iowa City,
Iowa M.F.A. 1970-72
University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario B.Ed. 1991-92
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Published Articles
The Watercolour Gazette May/June
06 A Love Affair – an artist and a field kit.
The
Watercolour Gazette Jan/Feb 2006
Freeze Your Way to Beautiful
Watercolours
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Plein Air
Magazine
Valerie Kent Canada Regional Editor 2005
FineArtConnoisseur
Valerie Kent Canada Regional Editor 2006
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The Watercolour Gazette March/April 02
North South East West,
Four Ways to Watercolour and Ink
The Watercolour Gazette May/June
02
Introducing - The Roadside Painters
Surface and Symbol
Twenty-five Candles |
Awards
Graduate School
Scholarship
Ministry of Education, Quebec, 1970-72
Percy H. Tacon Arts
Bursary, University of Toronto 1991-92
Canada Council Awards (2)
Toronto
Arts Award (1)
Professional Memberships
Scarborough Arts
Council
Society of York Region Artists
Toronto Watercolour
Society
Richmond Hill Group of Artists (President)
Arts & Letters
Club
Federation of Canadian Artists |
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Valerie Kent was born in Hungary and has
lived in Canada and the United States.
She studied at the Ecole des
Beaux Arts in Montreal, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia
University in Montreal, a Bachelor of Education at the University of Toronto
majoring in Visual Arts, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. She
has taken courses and workshops throughout her career with many well known art
instructors.
She paints in watercolours, acrylics, oils and mixed media
and gives workshops to art societies and at colleges throughout Ontario as well
as offering regular courses in watercolour and oil painting at the Mill Pond
Gallery in Richmond Hill, ON and at her studio. She does art therapy at
hospitals in the GTA.
Her work is in many collections worldwide and she
has shown her work in solo, juried, and group shows for many years as well as
being represented by commercial galleries.
An award winning artist, she
is President of the Richmond Hill Group of Artists, and an Active Member of the
Federation of Canadian Artists, Toronto Watercolour Society, Society of York
Region Artists, the Scarborough Arts Council, Arts & Letters Club, among
others.
Valerie has written articles for the Watercolour
Gazette, and Surface and Symbol. |
Artist's Statement
To
capture through art a fragment of our collective experience. To experience deep
meaning and deep thought, the joy of creative expression. We move through life
with grace, ethics and spirituality, and relearn daily through our art to
cherish humanity and our natural world. |
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Stephane Dion, current Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada,
Bryon Wilfret, M.P. Parliamentary Secretary, Michael Jolliffe,
Past President of the Oak Ridges Moraine Liberal Association, Valerie Kent,
Artist, Norma McCullough, and Kelly at the presentation of the Kent painting of
Port Severn to Stephan Dion, former Minister of the Environment. |
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