b. 1871, Victoria, British Columbia d. 1945, Victoria, British Columbia Landscape painter. Studied at California School of Design, San Francisco, 1891-93. Attended Westminster School of Art, London, 1899-1901. Outdoor painting classes with J. Olsson and A. Talmage, St. Ives, Cornwall, 1901-02. Studied with J. Whiteley, Bushy, Eng., 1902, 1904. Taught art in Victoria, 1894-circa 1899, 1905, 1936, and in Vancouver, 1906-10, 1912-13. Studied at Académie Colarossi, Paris, and privately with J.D. Fergusson, 1910. Outdoor classes with P. Gibb in Crécy-en-Brie and St. Efflam, May-Aug. 1911, and with F. Hodgkins in concarneau, late 1911. Painted views of forests and Indian villages on Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, and elsewhere in British Columbia, 1895-1942. Work influenced by Impressionism and Fauvism; however, after meeting the Group of Seven in 1927, her style became increasingly expressionistic. Author of Klee Wyck (1941), The Book of Small (1942), Growing Pains (1946), and other writings. (Source: Carol Lowrey, Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism, 1885-1920. Americas Society Art Galley, New York: 1995. p. 142.) Featured Work: Yan, Queen Charlotte Islands 1912 Oil on canvas 98.8 x 152.5 cm Art Gallery of Hamilton, Gift of Roy G. Cole, 1992