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For Toby Jaxon, art is instinctive and natural but not always effortless!

Toby’s public artistic career began early, at age six, winning a poster design contest. From pencil crayons and poster paints, she moved to oils and acrylics while attending high school inPrince Georgewhere she affected a hyperrealist technique that eventually taxed her patience — Toby was longing to develop a more expressive style. Later, while attending Art + Design college inAlberta, she experimented with other media and styles finally settling on acrylics and eventually gravitating toward impressionistic landscapes. Since moving back to the West Coast in 1990, after spending five years inToronto, Toby’s art has appeared in galleries and public venues, solo exhibits, frequent café shows as well as private and corporate collections.

Along with a strong passion for colour, Toby’s artistic inspiration springs from omnipresent nature and movement, elements that often enlighten her contemporary florals or portrait commissions.

Surrounded by the tranquil coastal mountains, she resides in Garibaldi Estates along the ‘Sea to Sky’ corridor – mountain biking, kayaking, skiing and pursuing her innate love of painting.

Toby Jaxon is the Curator of the Foyer Gallery in the Squamish Public

Library, a member of the North Shore Artists’ Guild and Whistler Arts Council and Past President of VISUALS Squamish Valley Artists Society. As a dedicated volunteer, Toby has directed ArtWalk events, instructed art workshops and performed live painting demonstrations.

Awards

• Recently voted Best Local Artist, for the second time, in “The Chief” newspaper Reader’s Choice 2008 & 2010 Awards.
• People’s Choice Awards: “Girl’s Best Friend” & “Tulip Daydream”, VISUALS Art at the Market
• Six interior design awards, Interior Designers’InstituteofBCand Northwest Design Awards
• Outstanding Achievement scholarship, Art and Design
• Rotary Club Citizenship Award

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