Jo Parrott was raised in Southern Ontario. After
completing a degree at the University of Toronto which included courses in Art
and Archaeology, she travelled to Europe to study the art treasures of its
museums and cathedrals. Returning to Canada, she took evening courses in
life drawing and portraiture at the Ontario College of Art. Later, she studied
at the University of Calgary and the Northwest Coast Institute of the Arts in
Victoria. Parrott completed a Ph.D. with a major in Art Education from
Pacific Western University in Los Angeles. She has studied privately with
Canadian artists Nesta Bowen Horne and Brian Johnson, B.P.A.,F.C.A., and with
one of North America’s foremost portraitists, Daniel Greene, N.A. of New York.
After teaching art seminars at Okanagan College for 15
years, Parrott resumed her career in fine art, portraiture and art consultation
until her retirement. Her paintings have been shown extensively in
numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Western Canada, and in the
Toronto and Ottawa area. Her work is represented in private and company
collections in the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, the
United States, Great Britain, France and Germany.
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