Mavis Penney
Biography.

After a career of teaching painting, drawing, photography and visual design to school age children and college students, Mavis Penney’s work has come full circle. Mavis Penney has returned to the painting that earned her thirty years of participating in provincial and national group shows, two solo exhibitions in the province’s Arts and Culture Centers Art Galleries, as well as a one-year Canada Council Artist-in-Residence Grant.

Merging diverse applications of conventional art techniques, heritage crafts and multimedia design that characterized the instruction she gave, Mavis Penney's most recent paintings explore landscape and the environment by combining digital imagery and traditional painting methods.

A graduate of Memorial University, Concordia University and Sheridan College, Mavis Penney is a long time proponent of the development and strengthening of visual arts in the province. She has written art commentaries for community newspapers and has served on regional and national Canada Council juries. She currently represents Central Labrador on the board of VANL (Visual Artists of Newfoundland and Labrador), and is an active member of two community-based arts advocacy groups in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

Mavis Penney's work is represented in public collections of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and in numerous private Canadian and international collections.