Honours Bachelor of Arts Individualized Studies, York University
Toronto, 1999
Thesis: Anxiety and the Artist
ISIS Canada, Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program & Practice
Toronto, 1992 - 1994
Therapy practice: Suthland Chan Schools, Women
Our Lady of Lords School, Toronto, Children
Mentor Training, Ontological Studies, the work of Dr. Richard Moss
Port Townsend, Washington, and France, 1990 - 1992
Richardson began experimenting in water colour, charcoal, clay and other media in her training as an Expressive Arts Therapist. Since 1999 she has been painting with oils and is largely self-taught.
Born: 1956, Winnipeg, Manitoba";
var mem = "Arts Society King, King Township
Art Gallery of Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Varley Art Gallery, Unionville, Ontario
Towns of York Toastmasters Club, Aurora, Ontario
The Community Association for Riding for the Disabled
Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club, Kenora, Ontario";
var pubs = "Maiden Voyage, 63 pages of stories, art and photo images of remote Canadian journeys, self-published, 2009
2009 Desk Calendar, features Kelly Lake and On A Country Hill, published by Rebecca and John Horwood, Toronto.
Connecting with Nature: Oak Ridges Moraine, features Kelly Lake, published by Herbert Pryke, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9811195-0-2
The Art of Beverley Richardson 2007 Calendar published by The Community Association for Riding for the Disabled, Toronto
Tapestry Magazine, King Township, cover & feature article, Fall, 2006
Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, cover & article, Summer, 2006
Nobleton Schomberg District Chamber of Commerce, Brochure cover, July 2006"; var coll = "Stronach Regional Cancer Centre, Newmarket, Ontario" var inter = 'Helen Lucas, painter and friend in conversation with Beverley Richardson, March, 2006
Helen: I am so excited by what you are doing in your studio. It has been wonderful to watch the evolution of your work. For me, your landscapes are the most powerful. Tell me about Motherland.
Beverley: I grew up with the golden grain fields, rich black earth and wide open blue skies of the Canadian Prairies all around me. Walking through frosted winter forests to school, skating along frozen country streams, riding horse back along miles of power line; these are rich memories that are with me still.
Helen: Did you paint as a child?
Beverley: I adored Presto Paints and Spirographs! My passion for colour and texture grew when I began creating doll clothes on a toy sewing machine. I continued creating and working with fashion up until having children. When I was a mother of three, living in Toronto, I returned to university. Peter Kolysnyk’s creativity course, Line & Form, captivated me and I began training as an Expressive Arts Therapist at ISIS Canada while I concurrently continued university studies. Although I was able to take several studio courses at York University, I am largely self taught as an artist. I carried on to complete a Masters in Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
Helen: Did you start out working in oils?
Beverley: My fist painting, In the Light, was done with latex house paint and a roller. My earlier works are abstracts in watercolor and charcoal, a few acrylics, and some sculptural and installation pieces. I have been working with oils for the past eight years.
Helen: What do you hope most to communicate with your work?
Beverley: My love affair with nature! Throughout my life, nature has been my sanctuary. Outdoors, time slows down and I draw closer to my own inner nature. I enjoy feeling the warm sun, or the sharpness of a windy rain on my cheeks. My paintings are meditations. I love spending time with them and contemplating them as I create them. The need to rush and the worries of daily life fall away. I hope the sense of wonder and comfort I feel comes through my brush and onto the canvas.
Helen: What’s next?
Beverley: I have been experimenting with gicleé reproduction which I hope will make my work more widely available. For the first time, I will do a showing of original works that will be available for purchase. The show will be held in July at Sunset Gallery in Kenora, Ontario and proceeds will benefit Saakaate House Women's Shelter, also of Kenora. And more painting! I want to continue to build a body of work that can inspire us to cherish and protect our natural world and wide open spaces.
The work of Helen Lucas can be viewed at www.helenlucas.com'; var exh = '2010 - Soul and Space, Rosedale United Church Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2010 - Prairie Voices, Sunset Gallery, Kenora, Ontario
2008 - Lake Spirit, Sunset Gallery, Kenora, Ontario
2007 - Annual York Region Juried Exhibition, Unionville, Ontario
2005 - Schools Without Borders Benefit Show, Toronto, Ontario'; var bio = 'Richardson began experimenting in water colour, charcoal, clay and other media in her training as an Expressive Arts Therapist.
Since 1999 she has been painting with oils and is largely self-taught.';