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Solo Shows
2016 The Joy Diary, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC (an interactive art show)
2014 Coyotes, Cheshires, Angels, and other Complications, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
2013 Recent Work, Cariboo-Chilcotin Teachers Association Office, Williams Lake, BC, ongoing
rotating exhibit
2012 Recent Work, Cariboo-Chilcotin Teachers Association Office, Williams Lake, BC, ongoing
rotating exhibit
2011 Recent Work, Cariboo-Chilcotin Teachers Association Office, Williams Lake, BC, ongoing
rotating exhibit
2011 Drawing Home, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, BC
2010 Crazy Wisdom, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
2008 Dancing the Ghosts, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, Aboriginal Arts Week,
Victoria, BC
2004 Everything I Know About the Human Heart 2, Demitasse Coffee Bar, Victoria, BC
2003 Everything I Know About the Human Heart, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria
(CACGV), Victoria, BC
2000 Series for Anna 2, Demitasse Coffee Bar, Victoria, BC
1999 Series for Anna, Demitasse Coffee Bar, Victoria, BC
Group Shows
2022 CNIB Eye Appeal Art Event 2022, Victoria, BC
2021 The Multifaith Action Society of BC, online calendar for 2021, Vancouver, BC
2019 The Secret Garden Sketchbook, in the collection of the Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY, USA
CNIB Eye Appeal Art Event 2019, Victoria, BC
2018 The Joy Diary Sketchbook, in the collection of the Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY, USA
How I Spent My Summer Evacuation: dedicated to the Wildfire Summer of 2017, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
2017 Expectations of Character: Dorothy Alice and Ann, Station House Gallery , Williams Lake, BC
CNIB Eye Appeal Art Event 2017, Victoria, BC
2015 In Cahoots (Synergy), Slide Room Gallery, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC
Gallery Artist, Groop Gallery, Prince George, BC
Spruce Kings Show Home, Prince George, BC
Central Cariboo ArtRoute 2015
CNIB Eye Appeal Art Event 2015, Victoria, BC
2014 Gallery Artist, Groop Gallery, Prince George, BC, ongoing
The Multifaith Action Society of BC, online calendar for 2014, Vancouver, BC
Spruce Kings Show Home, Prince George, BC
Earthly, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
Ekphrasis II, Groop Gallery, Prince George, BC
The Art of Reconciliation, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
Central Cariboo ArtRoute 2014, ongoing
2013 Sooke Fine Arts 2013, Sooke, BC
Laundry, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
Gallery Artist, Groop Gallery, Prince George, BC
CNIB Eye Appeal Event, Victoria, BC
Ringtone-Can you hear me know?, www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org
Central Cariboo ArtRoute 2013
2012 Ringtone-Can you hear me know?, www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org
2011 Ringtone-Can you hear me know?, www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org
Devastating Beauty: Curator’s Invitational Exhibit, Campbell River Art Gallery,
Campbell River, BC
ArtWalk 2011, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
Fine Arts 2011, Sooke, BC
2010 Fine Arts 2010, Sooke, BC
DRAWN, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2009 A(r)t 35, University Canada West, Victoria, BC
Fine Arts 2009, Sooke, BC
Fiction Residency Online Exhibition, www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org
2008 Fiction Residency Exhibition, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
Bits and Pieces, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
2007 Fine Arts 2007, Sooke, BC
Elements: Shambhala Arts, Shambhala Meditation Centre, Victoria, BC
Stillness: Art as Contemplative Practice, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC
2005 Even Crow Girls Get the Blues, CACGV, Victoria, BC
Even Crow Girls Get the Blues, Blackberry Gallery, Port Moody, BC
2004 Fine Arts 2004, Sooke, BC
Arts Revue Fundraiser, CACGV, Victoria, BC
2003 Evolution, Maltwood Art Museum, Victoria, BC
The Apple Show, CACGV, Victoria, BC
Surrealist Picnique, Victoria College of Art (VCA), Victoria, BC
Fine Arts 2003, Sooke, BC
Moss Street Paint-In, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2002 VCA Alumni Exhibit, Gallery at the Mac, Victoria, BC
Fine Arts 2002, Sooke, BC
Here’s Looking At Us, CACGV, Victoria, BC
LOOK 2002, Mahon Hall, Saltspring Island, BC,
2001 VCA Alumni Exhibit, Gallery at the Mac, Victoria, BC
Fine Arts 2001, Sooke, BC
Gallery Artists Group Show, Staub Gallery, Victoria, BC
Cavities: Salon de Refuses, Victoria, BC
1999 Fine Arts 1999, Sooke, BC
ArtWORK ’99, BC Festival of the Arts, Victoria, BC
VCA Graduates – Class of ’99, Blanshard Building, Victoria, BC
VCA Graduates – Class of ’99, Gallery at the Mac, Victoria, BC
Grants, Awards & Residencies
2016 Artist in Residence, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
2008 ‘Fiction’ Visual Arts Residency and Financial Award, Aboriginal Arts Program, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
2007 Patron’s Purchase, Fine Arts 2007, Sooke, BC
2004 Purchase Award, Fine Arts 2004, Sooke, BC
2002 Juror’s Choice Award, Fine Arts 2002, Sooke, BC
2000 Education Grant, Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation, New Brunswick
Articles & Publications
2021 Multifaith Calendar, Multifaith Action Society of BC, calendar in print and online, inset image, 2021
Hoffman, Brandon, ‘Workshop explores creativity in various arts', Williams Lake Tribune, January 5, 2017
Farrar, Gaeil, ‘The Joy Diary to end 2016 gallery season', Williams Lake Tribune, November 9, 2016, and 'More than 40 art pieces from the public contributed to gallery show', November 25, 2016
McDonough, Kate, 'Morning Meditation', The Green Gazette print and online editions, February 2016, and Lived Experience Literary Journal Number 15, 2016, illustrations
2014 Multifaith Calendar, Multifaith Action Society of BC, calendar and online, month image, 2014
Farrar, Gaeil, ‘Artist Shares Her Creative Search', Williams Lake Tribune, February 19, 2014
‘Artists Tackle BC’s Devastating Beauty’, Campbell River Mirror, September 21, 2011
‘Opening Reception for Major New Exhibition’, Campbell River Courier-Islander, September 21, 2011
Brennan, Katie, ‘On the Recent Work of Cat Fink’, Drawing Home Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, BC, 2011
Shebageget, Frank, ‘Ringtone-Can you hear me know?’, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org, 2011-2012
Farrar, Gaeil, ‘Exploring Life Through Art’, Williams Lake Tribune, February 18, 2010
FOCUS, October 2005, Vol. 18, No. 1, Victoria, BC, Cover image & page 3
‘Crow Girls Have the Blues’, Tri-City News, Port Moody, BC, July 27, 2005
Terry Dodd and Jennifer King eds., How did you paint that?: 100 ways to paint Still Life and Florals, International Artist Publishing Inc., USA, 2004, page 61
Devlin, Mike, ‘Sooke Offers Fine Display of Art’, Times Colonist, Victoria, BC, August 8, 2002
Teaching
2019 'Imagination Station', Cowichan Lake Arts & Culture, Lake Cowichan, BC
2017 Creativity Coaching
'Creativity Playground', Central Cariboo Arts Centre, Williams Lake, BC
2016 Creativity Coaching
'Telling Your Story: Writing Memoir', Cariboo Chilcotin Teachers Association, Professional
Development, Williams Lake, BC
2015 Creativity Coaching
2014 'Stepping Onto the Artist's Way', Cariboo Chilcotin Teachers Association,
Professional Development, Williams Lake, BC
2013 'Cracking Open Your Creativity', Thompson Rivers University, Williams Lake, BC
'Pastels: Drawing With the Rainbow', Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
'Pastels: Playing in the Biggest Crayon Box', Cariboo Chilcotin Teachers
Association, Professional Development, Williams Lake, BC
2012 ‘Pastels: Materials and Techniques’, Grade 9 Drawing
and Painting, Columneetza Secondary School, Williams Lake, BC
‘Building an Artist Portfolio’, Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society, Williams Lake, BC
‘Creating Artist Proposals’, Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society, Williams Lake, BC
Memberships and Volunteering
CARFAC--Canadian Artist Representation/Le Front Des Artistes Canadiens, 1999 - 2018
Charter Member, The Resonance Project, online, 2016
Donating Artist for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Eye Appeal Art Event 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022
Director, Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society, Williams Lake, BC, 2013 and 2014
Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, 2012 - 2018
Education
2024 Autumn Writing Circle (Daniel David Wallace)
The Residency (Daniel David Wallace)
2023 Book Camp (Chad R. Allen)
Writers Guild (Jerry Jenkins)
2022 Book Camp (Chad R. Allen)
Writers Guild (Jerry Jenkins)
2021 Writers Guild (Jerry Jenkins)
Your Novel Blueprint (Jerry Jenkins)
Way of Writing (Natalie Goldberg)
2020 Comics For Writers, Sequential Artists Workshop (Tom Hart)
Your Novel Blueprint (Jerry Jenkins)
2019 Book Beast (Carrie Frye)
2016 Graduate, Success Signature/Peak Performers Mastermind (Jennifer McLean, Linda Caducoy),
Los Angeles, CA, and online (heart-based business creation and practice)
Certified Level 2 Spontaneous Transformation Technique Practitioner (Jennifer McLean),
Los Angeles, CA, and online
The Resonance Project (Jayne Warrilow), online (international coaches mastermind)
2015 Success Signature/Peak Performers Mastermind (Jennifer McLean, Linda Caducoy),
Los Angeles, CA, and online (heart-based business creation and practice)
2014 Comic Course (Jazmyn Douillard), Station House Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
2001 Writing and Meditation Retreat (Natalie Goldberg), Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC
Intensive Life Drawing (Heather Spears), Metchosin International Summer School of the
Arts, Metchosin, BC
Abstract Expressionism (Bill Porteous), Victoria, BC
2000 Pastels (Nancy Slaght), Victoria College of Art (VCA) Extension, Victoria, BC
1999 Graduate, 3-year Studio Arts Diploma Program, VCA, Victoria, BC
Figure Drawing: The London School (Joseph Ho), VCA Extension, Victoria, BC
Human Anatomy & Drawing (Dr. S. Drabbitt), University of Victoria, Extension Courses,
Victoria, BC
1998 Pastels (Nancy Slaght), VCA Extension, Victoria, BC
Focus on the Figure (John Greffen), VCA Extension, Victoria, BC
1991 Graduate, Public Sector Management, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
1979 Graduate, Business Administration, Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University),
Nanaimo, BC