She then started painting at her first art studio in downtown Toronto, her work at that time was very naive and was inspired by the English artist Beryl Cook, around that time she got accepted by the Ontario College of Art and Design she studied under famous Canadian artists such as Graham Coughtry and Ian Carr-Harris, she graduated in 1988 in Experimental Arts at OCAD.
It provides programming and events for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University and 'emerging campuses' such as Seneca College, Humber College, George Brown College, OCAD and the satellite campuses of York (Glendon) and U of T (University of Toronto Mississauga and University of Toronto Scarborough).