Artist Statement
Art is Caryn’s calling.
After graduating from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, highlights included niche art jobs in New York City, scenic painting for the National Ballet of Canada, founding watercolour workshops on the Bruce Peninsula, and teaching at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Marriage and motherhood bore a tourism lodge in Temagami, Ontario, which promoted the arts. Despite the pulls between her artist’s drive, feminism, and business, Caryn always kept up a studio practice.
Now living in Meaford and retired, she is happily painting and giving full allegiance to her calling.
Education
1980 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax
1981 Commercial Art Diploma, George Brown College
Awards
2012 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
1997 Northern Ontario Artists Association, Katherine Burgman Memorial Award for watercolour: Indian Graveyard, Cape Crocker, 1995
Exhibitions
2024 Grey Gallery, Owen Sound, August
Walter’s Falls Group of Artists, Annual Show, August
Craig Gallery, Meaford 150, June
2013 RBC Dominion Securities “Art Impact”, Finalist
Temiskaming Art Gallery, Spiritual Paintings
2012 Lake Temagami Artists’ Exhibition, Bear Island, Temagami
2007 Gallery on the Grand, Agriculture & Art
1997 Northern Ontario Artists' Association, Annual Exhibition
1992 Lion’s Head Art Show, Lion’s Head, Ontario
Grand Trunk Railway Station, Wiarton, Ontario
National Ballet of Canada, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto
1991 The Royal Winter Fair, Tanbark Club, Toronto, Ontario
1990 The National Ballet of Canada, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto
1979 Gallery 76, Toronto, Ontario
Teaching
1994–2012 Watercolour workshops, Smoothwater of Temagami, Ontario
2000-07 Temagami Public School, art teacher volunteer
1992-93 The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg, Ontario
1992 Mooredale House, Toronto, Ontario
1991-93 The Traveling Studio, Wiarton, Ontario
Community Arts/Advocacy
2024 Moving Water Performance for Save Georgian Bay, Meaford, Ontario
1995-2013 Arts Presenter/House Concerts, Smoothwater of Temagami, Ontario
2012 Masterclass/workshop, Silver Birch String Quartet, Smoothwater of Temagami, Ontario
2009-10 Board member, Temagami Artistic Collective
2008 Iceworks conception/execution with Temagami Public School
2007 Set designer/painter, The Pied Piper, Temagami Public School
Books
Wild Ontario: An Artist's And Photographer's Guide
By Rob Stimpson and Craig Thompson
The Flavours of Canada: A Celebration of the finest regional foods
By Anita Stewart
Selected Press
Girls Getaway To Canada Becomes Experimental in Art
By Judy Babcock Wylie, 2007
Canada's Temagami Region: Where Legends Have Sought Inspiration
By Priscilla Lister, 2007, Copley News Service
A Brush with Greatness In Canada: A Trip To Northern Ontario Brings Out Artist In Everyone
By Patti Nickell, 2007
Wild Canada Landscape Inspires Amateur Painters
By Verna Gates, 2007, Reuters
Artists Drawn To Nature's Inspiration
By Ann Kerr, 2003, Globe And Mail
