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Sandy McMullen, Toronto, Ontario

Ideas excite me. Our complex world can grind us down. Staying connected to beauty, imaginative thinking, and authentic conversation inspires us and fosters resilience. My work now focuses on these central themes. I see my paintings as metaphors that allow the viewer to build their own story.

Although my personal inspiration comes from an idea that I want to consider and explore, the work itself invites others to engage in making it their own. I had this experience standing in front of a Jack Bush painting at the AGO and was hooked for life. In the spring of 2007, my show Inner Landscapes II was inspired from sketches that people did expressing aspects of their own Myers Briggs personality profile. I interpreted their sketches to capture the essence of what they were expressing. The show became theatre as people engaged in animated conversation about the paintings and what they meant from their world stance.

Education, Selected Courses and Workshops:
1964 – 1967 University of Western Ontario, Bachelor of Arts, Major English, London Ontario
1988 – 1992 Art Gallery of Ontario – Drawing, Life Drawing, Watercolour, Oil
Susan Low-Beer, Barry Coombs, Doug Stratford
1992 – 2007 Toronto School of Art, Haliburton School of the Arts, Art Retreats
Tina Poplawski, Percy Gardiner, Ed Cronk, John Leonard, Lila Lewis Irving, Margaret Roseman, David Wright, John Bennett, Ruth Read, Harold Klunder, Casey McGlynn, Claudia Jean McCabe, Don Cavin, Didi Gadjanski

Group Exhibitions:
1992 – 1995 Don Valley Art Club
1993 Hummingbird Centre
1994 Scarborough Civic Centre
1995 Sunnybrook Hospital
1996 The Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts
1998 The World of Picture Frames Gallery
2002 The Magic Door Gallery (Sunderland )“Rural Reflections”
2004 The Magic Door Gallery (with Arthur Schilling, Bewabon and Travis Schilling)
2008 Loft Gallery (Collingwood)
2007 – 2009 Covent Garden Gallery (Bloomfield)
2006 – 2008 The Grocer’s Gallery (Fenelon Falls)
2008 Kohl Gallery (Toronto)
2008 “Just for Us Originals” The Old Mill Toronto
2008 “Inner Landscapes” Show Psychometrics MBTI Conference (Ottawa)
2007 – 2009 Funktional Art Gallery (Bloomfield)
2008 Verity Members Show (Queen – Toronto)
2009 The Grange (Prince Edward County – Hillier Estate Winery)

Online Galleries
Rothwell Gallery (Ottawa), Mary Martin Gallery (Charleston),
Cortile Gallery ( Provincetown), Orangefish

Founding Partner “RedEye Studio Gallery” Historic Distillery District
2003 – 2007 Continuous Group Shows
2005 Solo Show “Inner Landscape I” part of International Coaching Awareness Month
2007 Solo Show “Inner Landscapes II”
Founding Member “The Bayview Art Tour”
1999 – 2008 Annual Solo Show of 30 New Paintings

Print and Publications
Cornerstone 52 Foundation – limited edition greeting card programme
Author of “Inner Landscapes II: A Visual Guide to the MBTI”
Co-Author and Illustrations “Upping the Downside: 64 Strategies for Creating Professional Resilience By Design” Mike Jay, Lesley Parrott et al
Cover art:
Imaging Leadership – Mary Stacey and Micheal Jones
Artful Leadership:Awakening the Commons of the Imagination – Michael Jones
Creating an Imaginative Life – Musician and Leadership Consultant Michael Jones

Artist in Residence at Context Management Consulting
Coach and Artist “Present and Accounted For” Art in the Workplace
Wellspring (Odette House, Sunnybrook, Oakville)
Care for Nurses
Ontario College of Pharmacists
Canadian Tire (Intact teams and cross-functional teams)
Context Consulting
Partners in Performance
Sara Thompson and Associates
Canadian Association of Family Enterprise

Paintings in private collections across Canada and the U.S. and in Europe, Great Britain and Japan.
Commission by the Board of Yee Hong Center for Florence Wong YWCA Women of Distinction Award winner
LMS Prolink Ltd Insurance
Jones Collins Law
Rubin Thomlinson LLP
CTI Working Environments
Envirotech Office Systems

Online

http://www.sandymcmullen.com

http://sandymcmullenfineart.com

http://personalityplusinbusiness.com

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