Maureen Walton’s Biography of Artistic Life

MURALS

1998 to 2012

Full Time, Sole Income, Mural Painting for Community venues, Public schools, Colleges, Museums, Seniors homes, Business & Private Homes in Hastings, Frontenac, Squamish B.C., Brazil

TEACHING

2009-2012

Owner of Wyldwood Sojourn Retreat Center, Lonsdale Ontario
- Host of the global movement of the Red Tent (a monthly Moon Lodge)
- Sessions in storytelling & lifedrawing

Facilitator For:

- Earthways retreats with Karen Holmes (4 per year)
- Seven Waves Womb Dance with Roula Said (1 per year)
- Acapella chanting & mantras with Evemarie Brunelle

1980-1996

Education & Development of Amber Walton-Amar & Elia Walton-Amar

PAST WORK IN THE ARTS

Illustration

- Southam Newspaper Syndicate; The Bed Time Story
- Ginn & Gage Publishers
- Sydney Aust. Education Dept. Layout & Design Position
- Fashion Illustrator: Toronto (Freelance & Advertising Studio Positions)

Animation

- Rainbow Animation (Layout & Character Design)
- Nelvana Animation (Layout Artist)
- Tower Graphics (Cleanup Artist)

Self Employment

- Wooden Toy Design, Scallywag Toys with M. Amar
- Educational Design Kit of the Inuit Traditional Life, Klienburg Art Gallery with M. Amar
- Teaching Contracts with OAC Artists in the Schools Program

ARTS & CULTURE EDUCATION

Formal

- Banff School of Fine Arts; Arts Sake, Toronto; Life Drawing Courses
- Storytelling Workshops with the Toronto Storytellers Association
- Study of the Inca Traditions of the Womb Chakra & Blood Masteries
- Biodynamic Farming Course,& Waldorf Child Education workshops, Rudolf Stiener

Experiential

- Emersion in Shamanic culture & Art of of PNG (House Tamaran,Yam Festivals etc.)1975
- Air Travel to Remote PNG Tribes
- Emersion in Balineese Hindu Culture 1975
- Emersion in Australian Shamanic culture & art (Arnhemland) 1974
- Emersion in Shamanic Netsilingmiut Culture of Nunavut (Birth Daughter) 1983 Kugarruk

FINE ARTS GRANTS & EXHIBITS

OAC

Short Term Grants & Artists in the Schools

Toronto Galleries

Gallery 1313, Illuminary Gallery, Blizzmax, Blue Dot Gallery,Freedom Within, Factory77,Edward Day Gallery

Kingston Galleries

Agnes Etherington,Queens U., Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston Women Artists Association,Parrot Center Library.