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Bernadette McCormack was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She began painting with watercolours in 1992 while travelling and working in Mexico. She returned home with a style that is prevalent in her work today. In 2003, while living in Calgary, she was introduced to acrylic paints and now works in both mediums.

Bernadette moved to Vancouver Island in 2007 and currently resides in Duncan, BC with her husband and children. She is a member of the Cowichan Valley Arts Council (CVAC) and at recent CVAC SassE Shows, her paintings received awards for merit in 2008 and 2009. She was accepted into the Filberg Festival in Comox, BC in the summer of 2008, which enabled her to further establish herself as an artist on the island.

In January of 2009, Bernadette painted on a seven and a half foot fiberglass eagle sculpture for the BC Lions Society. Her eagle was installed in the tourist zone of Victoria and remained there until April of 2010, at which point it was auctioned off to raise funds for the BC Easter Seals Society. (www.eaglesinthecity.com)

In April of 2009, Bernadette’s painting “In One Boat Together” was chosen to be a part of a public art exhibition in Sarasota, Florida. Embracing Our Differences, an international art exhibition that promotes unity, tolerance, acceptance and love, installs billboard sized paintings in Island Park for the public to consider, as we reach for a better understanding of the diversities of the human race. (www.embracingourdifferences.org)

Thank you Bernadette for sharing your creative spirit with our readers, you bring life to colour and colour to life!