Biographies > Valerie Hostetler

Valere Hostetler said she is drawn to painting wild spaces, to creating elemental landscapes that express the vitality of the land.  She wants to pull the viewer in with an abundance of colour and form, as she does in the TAG collection watercolour, Waterfall Near Lost Lake.  Originally she worked on location to capture the fleeting movement of nature and life. Later she began working from photographs and this she feels has helped increase the range of detail and dimensions.  One year she lived on Lake Temagami and painted the landscape in all four seasons.  She says this environment has played a major role in the development of her identity as a painter and a person.

Valerie got her BA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1981 and an Artist in the Community/Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University in 1984.  She has had many solo and group exhibitions in Alberta, Ontario and New York.