Carole Finn works professionally in Ontario as a painter and printmaker. She has developed her artistic vision over years of training at Ontario Collage of Art & Design, York University Fine Arts and The Haliburton School of The Arts.
Carole continues to paint major works of Vancouver Island’s West Coast. Over the next 2 years she will continue to show new works at Black Rock Resort, Ucluelet and at the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino. In 2012 Carole hopes to publish the paintings in a book about the Pacific Rim’s Trails and Beaches.
Posts tagged Carole FinnArt Education:
As a teenager in Peterborough chosen to be part of special extramural art courses for training High School students of exceptional talent under the patronage of Robertson Davies then editor of the Peterborough examiner
- 1960: Became a teacher, won scholarship to attend OCA for 4 summers Courses of 8 weeks to become Teacher Art Specialist.
- 1960-1965: Queens University for extramural Courses in English /History
- 1965-1979: The Haliburton School of the Arts, Sir Sandford Fleming College, Con. Ed. Courses – Pottery, Wood Sculpture, Drawing and Painting
- 1982-1985: York University, Fine Arts
Graphic Artist Training:
- 1995-1998: Durham College-Certificate in Graphic Design
- 1999-2001: Sir Sandford Fleming College-Certificate in Web Design
- 2001-2003- Web Design-Lynda.Com Ojai California
Return to the Arts:
- 2006: Haliburton School of the Arts, SSFC, 10 wks Summer Program¬Drawing, Painting, Stone Lithography
- 2007: Haliburton School of the Arts, Advanced Painting for Professional Artists.4wk Course- (entry on the approval of selection committee of Professors), Stone Lithography
- 2009- Haliburton School of the Arts, 4 weeks – Silkscreen, Watercolour Monoprinting
Professional Media:
- Painting in Acrylics, Mixed Media, Stone Lithography, Silkscreens
Juried Shows
- 2006-Lindsay Art Gallery, Stone Lithograph, Honourable mention
- 2009- Lindsay Art Gallery- Stone Lithograph, Honourable mention
Grants:
- 2010- Exhibition Grant- Ontario Arts Council
Exhibitions:
- 2006-Solo Exhibition “Emergence”, Oakville Studio, Ontario
- 2007-”Making Marks-New works”, The Carole Finn Art Gallery, Minden Ontario
- 2008- Works shown on an ongoing basis at the Carole Finn Art Gallery
- 2009-Solo Exhibition , Minden Public Art Gallery- Acrylics of the “The WildPacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, B.C.
- 2009- Silkscreens and Linocuts – Scenes from a Garden, Rhubarb Restaurant, Eagle Lake
- 2009- July August September- Solo Exhibit, Black Rock Hotel, Ucluelet,Vancouver Island
- 2010- June/July- Solo Exhibit, Black Rock Hotel, Ucluelet,Vancouver Island
Reviews:
- Oakville Snap Newspaper, January 2007- Interview with the Artist.
- Radio Interviews on the Arts- Canoe FM, Haliburton , Minden Times;
- Haliburton Echo; Tofino Times
Professional Affiliations:
- Founding partner in Haliburton School of The Arts now the Sir Sandford Fleming Campus in Haliburton
- Founder and first curator of Rails End Gallery, Public Art Gallery in Haliburton
- Founder Haliburton Highlands Guild of Fine Arts
- Member of Board Of Governors, Sir Sandford Fleming College and Sandford Fleming Friends Fundraising Foundation Board
- Chair of Haliburton Campus Fundraising Committee
and Member of the Fundraising Cabinet to build the Haliburton Campus - Chair of Superbuild Committee for Rails’ End Gallery Expansion
- Founding member for the Arts Council, Haliburton County
- Director of Dysart et Al Sculpture Forest Committee
- Founder- The Carole Finn Art Gallery; Member-Visual Arts; Ontario
- Member-Art Gallery of Ontario
Community Awards:
- Chamber of Commerce, Haliburton County- ” Highlander of the Year”
- Sir Sandford Fleming College- ” Fellowship in Applied Education”
- “Founders Award” voted by members of Haliburton Arts Council
Member of; the Haliburton Arts Council, Visual Arts Ontario and Tour de Forest Studio Tour
