Biographies > Myra McCarthy

Myra McCarthy’s TAG collection work, Spring Thaw, Montreal River is a landscape of swirling shapes and soft watercolours. Myra works in a variety of media but prefers watercolours. She says she likes to paint realism rather than abstract, and she loves to experiment with colours seeing how they blend or push away each other. She loves to paint flowers and scenery (mostly from her imagination).

Myra was born and raised in Larder Lake. She studied art with Helen O’Neil and Sheila Langlois. In 1975 she moved to Haileybury and continued her art and art education including regularly attending the Cobalt Artists’ Colony. Myra has received her NOAA letters and her work was chosen for the Northern Telephone’s Phone Book in 2000 and several TAG calendars. Her work is in the Ontario Northland and Northern Telephone collections as well as many private collections.