Titania Michniewicz - Artist Bio



Titania was born second of five children, into a family of artists in Ottawa.

Both of her parents are artistic people. Her mother, Doris Lemire, is an accomplished watercolourist and oil painter in Ottawa. Her father is continually exploring and creating in many different media. There were always art supplies around the house, and making art was encouraged.

Her early artistic influences include her mother’s older sister, Diana Lemire-Savidant, a well-known Prince Edward Island artist and art teacher, and her father's eldest sister: Sr. Collette, also an accomplished artist and teacher. Both of these women opened her to a life of creative possibility.

At 13 she auditioned for and was accepted into the Arts Visuelles program at l'Ecole Secondaire De La Salle in Ottawa, where she studied with Claire Guillemette-Lamirande, Marc Charlebois and Miguel Berlingua.

Her Visual Arts studies continued at the Ottawa School of Art with Ken Finch and John Sadler. and at Ottawa University in the Visual Arts department. She studied drawing, painting, photography and sculpture with professors: Philip Fry, Leslie Reid, Roland Poulin, Suzanne Pasquin and Carla Whiteside. Midway through her degree she transferred to the University of Victoria, where she graduated with her B.F.A. in June of 1996 after studying sculpture with Roland Brenner and Mowry Baden and painting with Robert Youds and Joseph Ho.

In the years since her graduation, she has lived in Whistler and Vancouver, and has independently studied and applied her many media interests ranging from acrylic and oil painting, gilding, tile and glass mosaics, gardening, wearable art and jewellery to web design and the graphic arts. Her current focus is on her Gemscapes and pushing that medium into new directions and on her rendering of landscapes into luminous acrylic-on-mylar paintings.

Titania currently makes her home on Bowen Island, BC, where she enjoys being part of a wonderful community in the midst of incredible natural beauty.

Her work is found in private and corporate collections across Canada.





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