AUDREY JOLLY RP, MA, OSRP

 

Audrey is a Canadian landscape and abstract painter, living on Manitoulin Island since July 2021. She is a member of the Manitoulin Fine Arts Association, Muskoka Arts & Crafts and has her work hanging in the Britton Gallery in Bracebridge. 


 

Previously from Saskatchewan, she arrived in Toronto to complete her Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at York University where she taught movement and theatre while completing her degree. She also studied sculpture during her time at York, continuing her art studies with The Toronto School of Art following graduation. She studied privately with many talented artists including Sharon Epstein (mixed media/textiles) and Pat Fairhead (painting).


 

Her paintings have been commissioned by corporations including Edgecombe Properties, Peat-Marwick-Thorne, A.E. Lepage, Z.M. Zysko Professional Corporation, Mikko Bruun Associates, Helsinki, Finland and owned by private collectors across Canada as well as Europe and Beijing.


 

She has exhibited her work in Muskoka at the Muskoka Place Gallery, Port Carling both in solo exhibitions and group shows shared with Pat Fairhead, Gayle Dempsey and others.  The Muskokan is quoted as saying she is “a mature, captivating emotional painter.” The bold form, vibrant colour, and unique layering of her paintings contain a deep contemplative and emotional complexity.

 

As an interdisciplinary artist working in art and theatre, she has performed at Lula Lounge in Toronto as a live painter with storytellers and jazz musicians. She has been a part of Nuit Blanche, the Outdoor Art Exhibition, Cabbagetown Art & Craft Show and a member of the Women’s Art Association, Toronto.



 

Her teaching background includes full time faculty positions with the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Keyano College, AB & The Banff Centre as well as part time positions with York University, Ryerson and the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.  

 

She wrote and published a book in 2021 entitled, On the Back of the Wildebeest, exploring creativity & healing from the perspective of an interdisciplinary artist/teacher/psychotherapist.

 

She offers in-person, creativity retreats at Bird Tree Studio located on her property on Manitoulin Island in summer & fall. Throughout the year she works as an online registered psychotherapist while persuing her career as an interdisciplinary artist.