Ursula McDermid

I call myself an artist much more comfortably and confidently than I used to.

Living in Milton for over twenty years plus my association with so many gifted artists helped define myself. 

Coming to Canada as an immigrant from Germany in my early years (a few years after WW2 ended) had a part in shaping who I am. My formative years were spent in Northern Ontario and in my early twenties I relocated to Southern Ontario. Art in my family was not looked upon as a lucrative profession so I meandered along different paths and ended up in the Public Sector until my retirement a few years ago.

Since my teen years, I played with various mediums and most recently fell in love with alcohol ink.

I have had no formal art training; my intuitive creativity extends beyond painting into artistic food preparation and crafts of every description. 

Abstract to impressionism to realism covers the gamut of themes I work with and are all represented in my work in private collections, book covers and corporate greeting cards.

As Secretary, Past President and President of the Fine Arts Society of Milton I led numerous special projects such as the 9’x 9’ Pan Am Mural (2015) which hangs in the local Velodrome; a 33’ x 8’ mural for the Milton District Hospital (2017); FASM ART on the hospital walls; business art galleries; the Youth Visual Arts Mentoring Program; management of a retail art space. 

Contact:

Phone – 905 299 1429

Email – umcdermid@gmail.com

You can find me on Facebook, Instagram

and Etsy at http://etsy.com/ca/shop/MillsideArt