The Great Garden Party Cake Competition with the Sirens : oil on canvas 40 x 30”
Meeting the Boat: oil on linen: 36 x 24”
Après Matisse: the Fig Tree Garden: oil on canvas : 36 x 24”
Great Aunt Amy helps me sew an outfit to come to Canada : oil on canvas: 36 x 24”
1946 : oil on canvas : 12 x 16”
We don’t Speak to Melanie Carr: from the Ackender Road Childhood memoir 1951-1954: oil on Arches oil paper: 30 x 22”
The Girls Playground: from the Ackender Road Childhood Memoir 1951-1954: oil on Arches oil paper: 30 x 22”
The Factory Girls : from the Green Front Door 1947-1951 series: watercolour and ink, text on paper: 17 x 14”
Farm Week: from the Green Front Door 1947-1951 series: watercolour, ink, text on paper 17 x 14”
Arrival : The Boarding School Series : watercolour, ink, text on paper: 12 x 9”
Paintings and Memoirs
Artist Biography:
Antoinette is a British Canadian artist with roots in the Channel Island of Jersey. She grew up in the UK and moved to Saskatchewan in 1967. During 44 years of living on the prairies, Antoinette was engaged in building her art career and a variety of arts related occupations in education and the arts community. She moved to Gabriola BC in 2012 where she maintained a studio practice until 2025. She is newly located in Vancouver and is presently planning new work. Antoinette describes herself as a “visual storyteller” . Her work has always been inspired by lived experience including personal narrative, family history and domestic interests through observation, memory and imagination.
Drawing and painting are both integral aspects of Antoinette’s work. She paints with oils, gouache, watercolour and occasionally egg tempera. Her drawings incorporate a variety of media and painted paper collage.
Antoinette holds several degrees in Fine Arts and Arts Education. She is the recipient of Saskatchewan Arts Board grants and took part in a mentored residency in Wells BC and a study program in Italy and Greece with the “Aegean Center for the Fine Arts”. Antoinette’s work has been exhibited across Canada and occasionally in the US. She has exhibited in public and private galleries and is represented in public and private collections in Canada and the UK. Work in public collections include: The Saskatchwan Arts Board; Canada Council Art Bank; The City of Regina; The Regina Hospitals Foundation: Universities of Saskatchewan and Regina; Sony Music and H.R. H. Prince Edward’s Royal collection, UK.
Following a large autobiographical series of oil paintings on paper about her experiences as a pre-teen in the early 1950’s, begun in 2011, and a series of still life paintings based on women’s clothing , Antoinette is continuing to explore a series’ of narrative “diary” like drawings with text on paper depicting incidences from the artist’s life within it’s larger social and historical context.
Her most recent work consists of a series of paintings in tandem with the memoir drawings based on family, old photos and anecdotes, often with a humourous twist, presented as real or remembered incidents interpreted in a “folk tale” manner. She has recently begun writing about her lived experiences and observations as an artist through a newsletter which she is planning to reformat as a blog, both available through her website.
