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Shirley Chinneck
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Shirley Chinneck
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Shirley is a retired nurse who started painting again on a fulltime basis in 1986. A wife, mother of 3 sons and grandmother to 5 children she finds the beauty of her surroundings in Alberta's Rocky Mountains a true inspiration for her work. Her medium
of choice is gouache because it allows the luminousity of light to become a feature in her miniatures. A self taught artist, Shirley continues to explore various techniques, sizes and formats within her work in a continuous desire to express her love of
painting.
ARTIST STATEMENT
"I've always liked to draw, but art had to take a back seat to the more practical matters that faced a young nursing graduate and mother in the 1950's. I worked as a nurse, married, raised three sons and did
art when I could. I started going to a nursery school where I lived and began sketching the children. I also sketched at a jazz ballet class. They didn't pose for me; I had to capture them in motion. Often after a shift at the hospital, I would stay
and draw geriatic patients - attention for them and models for me. Drawing is fun, and I still love to do it."
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Shirley Chinneck
Affiliations
1996 The Arts Club, Montreal, Quebec, Lifetime Membership
Society of Canadian Artists, Toronto, ON
Collections
Alliance Mutual Insurance Co, Montreal, Quebec
Canada Cement Lafarge Ltd., Montreal Quebec
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
Government of Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec
Canada Deposit Insurance Co., Ottawa, ON
Luxton Museum, permanent collection, Banff, AB
Education
self taught
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