Indigenous Artist Bio
Wendy Cain holds an Honours Degree in Fine Art from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario and is an AOCA Honours (Associate of the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario). Since 1972, she has had nineteen solo exhibitions, the most recent, Shipwreck Dreaming, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, Ontario; MVS Gallery, Brockville, Ontario, Out in the Sticks Cultural Association, Yarker, Ontario and John M. Parrott Gallery, Belleville, Ontario and Growing Up and Living in the Landscape, L & A Museum and Archives, Napanee, Ontario.
Wendy has participated in over three hundred group exhibitions, most as a Canadian printmaker and papermaker, and she has established a paper studio in Newburgh, Ontario. She retired from teaching printmaking and papermaking at OCAD University in Toronto as Associate Professor of Art and Past Chair of Printmaking.
Artist Statement
I have an art practice spanning decades that uses printmaking and papermaking techniques separately and sometimes in combination. I have developed paper pulp painting effects which I have called Fluid Paper because the images develop with finely beaten and pigmented paper pulp that has painterly qualities. Screen Printing has the capacity to provide both bold colour effects and fine detail. All of these elements have technical challenges, but this is what probably draws me back again and again to the studio.
