60” x 36” Charcoal and Oil on Canvas

A working artist for over 20 years, Shana has a unique background that allows her to share her. artistic voice in an impactful manner. A University of Alberta Bachelor of Commerce grad (Marketing), Shana has years of experience in the corporate world as both a manager and a business owner. In order to follow her true passion, Shana started art training at 33 and is now blazing a trail for mature women in the arts. Discovered in 2020 by TIME Magazine after a global search, Shana was bestowed the incredible honour of painting Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Jackie Kennedy for TIME covers. She has since done work for other major publications, and is represented by Elevation Gallery in Canmore, AB and Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton, AB. Recently her portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was selected by The Evening Standard to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee, appearing on merchandise available worldwide.

Among other painting genres, Shana’s legacy project is to paint portraits of inspirational women from all walks of life, inclusive of all cultures and orientations. The subjects all have one thing in common; the ability to inspire and create social change. She pays tribute to them on canvas, painting a long overdue celebration of trail blazing women. In 2019 Shana launched the “For Women Who Roar” portrait exhibition, where she painted 15 five foot tall portraits of game-changing women. Following that, she painted another 15 portraits for an exhibition titled “Presenting HERstory”.

Visit any major gallery or museum in the world and it is saturated with oppressive paintings of women. Contrast this with the paintings of clothed men in states of strength and power. These are the images school children see on their field trips. We MUST flip this artistic marginalization on its head. The art world must work diligently to right the balance of how women are portrayed on canvas, and increase the numbers of us behind the canvas, on museum and gallery walls.

Shana EMPOWERS changemakers on canvas. Loudly.