Biography
2010 – MOVE TO ONTARIO, CANADA: The recent move to Southern Ontario in Canada places Bending closer to her North American markets and a major international airport with its shipping infrastructure. She is continuing with a full schedule of international shows in Tokyo, Istanbul, New York, Beijing, Shanghai and the Cayman Islands. (Please see Exhibitions)
2009 – FLORENCE BIENNALE: Invited by the selection committee of the Florence Biennale to participate.
2005 – EXHIBITING AGAIN: Persuing her own artwork after many years of fundraising and working with others, Bending, a prolific artist, focused on exhibiting again.
2001 – MOVE TO GRAND CAYMAN: As well as teaching at the University College of the Cayman Islands, she founded art classes at the prisons and developed classes for troubled teens. Influenced by the tropical surroundings and lives of her students, her abstracted works became more representational.
1990 – FIRST SOLO SHOW - TOKYO AND YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: Her abstract landscapes, with their subtle layers of texture, appealed to the Japanese sensibility.
1978 – MOVE TO VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA: Active in promoting the arts, she served on the Board of Directors for the Vancouver Island Illustrators' Society and the Community Arts Council of Victoria, chairing the Awards and Grants Committee for the latter. Her work continued to explore abstract expression.
1970 – BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS DEGREE: Born in Vancouver, Canada, Bending, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta, on the Canadian prairies. The curriculum emphasised many traditional, classical art forms with emphasis on realism. When abstraction was encouraged she developed what would be a life long passion for texturing paint.