JOAN McILWAIN (SIOBHAN)

Group Exhibitions:
2003 ………..Cinema 379 Visual Poetry Group
2003-11 …..Annual Kawartha Artists' Gallery Visual Poetry Group
2007 ………..Kent Farndale Gallery, Port Perry
2007 ………..Rebecca Gallery, Toronto
2008 ………..Upstairs Gallery, Port Hope
2008…………Town Hall Gallery, Clarington

Solo Exhibitions:
2009 ………..Natas Café, Peterborough
2009 ………..Splice Restaurant, Peterborough

Joan's work is in private collections in Oregon, Michigan, Ottawa, Kingston and Peterborough as well as corporate offices in Burlington, Ontario.

Joan’s paintings, mainly acrylic on canvas and in some cases mixed media, are signed Siobhan, Gaelic for Joan.

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My artistic journey began in 2003 when I attended a visual poetry class to fulfill a long-held dream of learning how to paint. With no background in the arts, I was starting from square one and, although rather intimidated by my inexperience, I was hooked from the very beginning. I've discovered I can use colour to work spontaneously in an intuitive way … allowing me to communicate who I am without words. I paint for the total pleasure it gives me to pour my passions, impossible to verbalize but instantly viewable, onto a canvas and to share that experience with others.

I feel pride in witnessing a piece of my art speak to someone…..to reach inside them. That allows me to take comfort in letting a piece of myself go.

……………….……………..Siobhan
2012