NEWS: Brenda is giving a 2 day intensive watercolour workshop at the Franklin Carmichael Art Centre (Etobicoke) Saturday. Feb. 26 & Sunday, Feb. 27th, 2011.
Recent Honours:
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"Best Watercolour in Show" for "On the Oxtongue River". Franklin Carmichael Art Centre, Etobicoke. October, 2011.
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"Best Acrylic in Show" for the triptych, "Return to the Land of the Silver Birch". Franklin Carmichael Art Centre, Etobicoke. October, 2011.
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"Best Pen & Ink in Show" for "Yorkville Firehall". Franklin Carmichael Art Centre, Etobicoke. October, 2011.
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"First Place" in the People's Choice Category for the watercolour, " Wonderland Revisited". Toronto Watercolour Society. November, 2011.
Cambridge and Dorset artist,
Brenda Behan Turnour began studying art at the age of eight, in a church
basement in Orillia, where she was taught by Arthur Shilling of Rama, one of
Canada's premier aboriginal artists. She subsequently sold her first oil
painting at age twelve. Through her teen and early adult years, Brenda
designed student council and Cancer Society posters, cards, party
invitations, etc. but discovered that she preferred to paint/draw when the
mood came upon her, rather than according to demand.
Brenda holds degrees from the University of Toronto and University of Caen,
France where she won her first major art competition with pen and ink sketch
of a 'manoir'.
In 1993, watercolours beckoned and since this time, Brenda has been
painting, teaching and entering juried shows on a full-time basis.
In 2003, Brenda was nominated for the K-W Regional Artist of the Year; in
the spring of 2004, she was awarded the "Bernice Adams Award" as Cambridge's
Artist of the Year and in September, 2004, won an "Honourable Mention" Award
at the COAA Annual Juried Show in Etobicoke.
"Any talent that I have is a gift from God and my inspiration is received from the joys and beauty of life, which constantly surprise and surround me."
Dorset Phone : 705 766-2357
e-mail address:
brenda.turnour@live.ca
Here are some samples of Brenda's work. Click on a picture to view more samples.
Acrylics & Mixed Media Watercolours
