Biography

Denna was born in Edmonton, Alberta. She studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and has also attained a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Victoria in 1997. She has been teaching and working as an artist on the West Coast for the past 30 years.

Denna specializes in using oil and cold wax on wood. Her paintings consist of personal symbols and organic shapes layered in glazes of luminescent color. Shapes and forms are transcended through transparent layers of paint. Each painting has a personal meaning or memory in time. The colors represent the emotion evoked by each piece. Denna plans her pieces by vivid thoughts of color. The focus of the painting is then added and the color and the imagery combined transcend into meaning.

Currently, Denna is represented by two galleries, The Avenue Gallery in Victoria BC, Effusion Gallery in Invermere BC. She also participates in the East side Culture Crawl every year in Vancouver from 1000 Parker Street. She is very active in the Parker street arts community where she had a studio there for 24 years. Recently she has moved to Vancouver Island in Brentwood Bay , where she works from a home studio.