May 13, 2009 7:30pm
“Green Solutions to Pests”
by Julie Boudreau
Julie is a graduate in ornamental horticulture from the ITA St. Hyacinthe. She participated in the construction of the Grands Jardins de Normandin and was the horticulturist at the Casino de Montreal. She was a magazine columnist for Flowers, Plants and Gardens for several years and the author of several books including A Guide to Gardens of Quebec. She has also participated in several TV shows, as well as Radio Canada and TVA.
Born in South Africa in 1936, Jennifer Dickson trained as a painter and printmaker at Goldsmith’s College School of Art from 1954 to 1959, and her graduate studies in etching were under Stanley William Hayter at the Atelier 17, Paris, from 1960 to 1965. She went on to found and direct the Graduate Printmaking programme at the Brighton College of Art (now Brighton University), and was instrumental in integrating photography into the programme in the early 1960s. She moved to Canada in 1969 where she taught at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal. her first exhibition in London in 1962 was rapidly followed by a string of annual solo exhibitions in the UK, Belgium, South Africa, Jamaica, the USA and Canada, and many international group exhibitions. Her work is in the Collections of more than 40 Museums and Public Galleries.
