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.