Dennise Taylor-Gilhen
Painter
About Dennise
Dennise is an expressive landscape painter shaped by Eastern Ontario, Algoma, Georgian Bay, and the long horizons of her childhood along the North Saskatchewan River. Influences include Dorothy Knowles, David Milne, and Allen Sapp; her time at the University of Saskatchewan in the early 1980s was a period of expansive creative growth. Dennise paints thresholds: ice becoming water, a sea wall slowly eroding, a child’s stillness at a tidal pool—movement, light, and a breath held before change. Her work is a counterweight to her career in social justice, offering a practice of attention, care, and quiet repair.
Committed to lifelong learning, she regularly takes classes and workshops to expand her practice, and has studied under artists such as Gayle Kells, Ottawa; Mark Hope, Wasaga Beach and the late Ivan Wheale, Manitoulin Island.
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