Biography

Dreams & Meditations

Vickie Martin is a long time resident of Guelph, Ontario and an active member of her community.

After many years in the mainstream workforce, art has become her soul purpose. Her paintings reflect landscapes, abstracts and florals using paint mediums: oil, watercolour, acrylic and mixed media.

The adult onset of visual impairment has awakened her ability to express the emotion and the atmosphere of the place in which she finds her self through her paintings. Her work expresses the inner soul of her being, giving each painting its own special colour and dimension. Each painting reflects a piece of her self. As such, the greatest gift is achieving the moment of connection that a person experiences, when they communicate with one of her paintings. That connection between an individual and the inner soul of Vickie Martin is the essence of why her art is created. Vickie often says that her work is a gift from God because this talent was not shown to her until she lost her sight. However, in retrospect, she does say that she can see better now than she ever could.

Vickie has shown her work in many art venues: Kloepfer's Gallery, University of Guelph – University Club, Art-in-Guelph Gallery, Creative Arts Association exhibits – Expressions and Painting-on-the-Green, Kaleidoscope Café, Guelph Community Arts Tour, Guelph Arts Festival Studio Tour, Oakville Art in the Park Show, Credit Village Outdoor Art Show, Guelph Art in the Street Show, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph Civic Museum, Guelph Studio Tour, Gift of Art at Cambridge Galleries, and the Toronto Art Expo.

Her belief in giving back to society is sustained with the many donations of her work she has offered to such organisations as: