Wendy Hatala Foley

Wendy Hatala Foley can’t remember a time when she was not pursuing art. She is a professional opera singer and more recently, a painter, who has spent much of her life studying and performing classical music. Wendy has a Masters Degree in Music and has sung across Canada, from Victoria to St. John’s, and she currently sings with The Canadian Opera Company. Opera is a combination of all the arts and she has loved being surrounded by every conceivable expression of beauty, love, and life. Wendy has always been challenged by the fact that music only lives in the moment it is being performed, and those moments are extremely choreographed and rehearsed. The same cannot be said of visual art. There is a freedom in visual art that is not negated by its permanency. Through her use of bright acrylic paints, thick textures, and abstract visualizations, Wendy has transferred her love of music onto the canvas to illustrate her joy of life. It is her profound hope that those who experience her paintings will likewise feel the same. 

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