A former dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Val studied Media Arts at Emily Carr College of Art + Design.
In 1988, she graduated with Honors and received the Helen Pitt Award, for which she was included in a group exhibition at the
Vancouver Art Gallery. The following years she collaborated with dance artists, creating award-winning short videos which were
screened across North America and Europe, and in 1998 she began painting. Singled out by art critic Christopher Brayshaw at
Artropolis 2003, she was a semi-finalist the same year in the Royal Bank Canadian Painting Competition. Val has received Canada
Council, BC Arts Council and Vancouver Foundation grants, and she is included in Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting, a book on the
current state of painting in Canada. In 2011 she was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center, and artist-in-residence at St.
George’s Senior School in Vancouver, Canada.
“The highlight of the show…loose, intelligent brushwork…”
—Christopher Brayshaw, the Georgia Straight
“…intellectually and artistically daring work”
— Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal
“…she crafts the kind of post-photographic painting that does its best to make an eye dulled by electronic
media vibrate anew. I am happy to say she is largely successful.”
— Terence Dick, Akimbo
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