Co-Chair: Esmé Boone

Esmé studied art for three years full time at the National Art School in Sydney and Newcastle, Australia, before coming to Canada in 1970.  She completed an honours degree in Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba majoring in painting with second major in photography.

Esmé works mainly with acrylics on canvas.  Her work, often quite large, includes realistically rendered figures in a mystical, dream-like, often musical melieu.  While appearing illustrative, her paintings are, in fact, metaphors for deeply personal issues.
She recently won the Grand Prize and an honourable mention in the Dryden Miniature Art Show.

Esmé’s other passion is as a musician especially the Celtic harp, both playing and accompanying herself singing Celtic and Gaelic songs.  She also runs harp-making workshops for tiny lap harps. These workshops combine music and art, as the participants paint their own designs so, as she jokes, they get and art lesson as well as a harp!

Esmé planned and coordinated tourist development of a Provincial Heritage Park in Manitoba [Old Pinawa].  She also happens to be a Nurse Practitioner, but has almost retired from this now.