Shirley Turgeon
160 Quaker Road 
Welland , Ontario
Canada  L3C 3G5
905-735-7409
turgeon@iaw.on.ca

I started painting lessons approximately five years ago because I wanted to paint pansies on my pine dining room table.  Two years later I discovered “pen & ink & oil rouging” when I took a seminar with Mary at the Paint in Niagara show.    Needless to say, I was hooked.

I took Mary’s certification course in October, 2001 and became certified in June, 2002 after assisting Mary at a seminar here in Canada.

My fervent wish is to design my own patterns.  I am also a quilter and would like to develop patterns along this line.  

I am the treasurer of the Niagara Association of Decorative Artists (NADA) and membership chairman of The Quilting Friends.

I would not have come this far without the support and encouragement of my husband Ray.  Special thanks also to Kim Bokma of Heart & Home, my first decorative  artist “instructor”.