Life

Dawna spent her childhood and youth in Ontario, starting out in Stoney Creek (outside Hamilton) and moving on to Ottawa and Toronto.

In her late twenties she migrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she discovered a community of like-minded artists and agitators. Dawna jumped head-first into the Maritime cultural scene at a time of social and political ferment and nascent Canadian consciousness.

Two decades later, she moved back to Ottawa to find work that was a little more stable (with the federal government) and to augment her academic credentials.

Now retired, Dawna found a resurgence of artistic inspiration in the isolation wrought by the global pandemic, which spurred her to post cartoons and sketches to a Facebook page for the amusement of all who were similarly cut off from communities. The series of drawings posted on social media has gained a new audience for her.


Photo: The artist outside family home in Stoney Creek with furry friends.