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Renate Hulley, artist and adventurer

Renate Hulley is someone with a keen appreciation for nature and the beauty around her. An adventurer at heart, she has lived in many interesting locales that have inspired her artistic growth.
Renate was born and raised in Germany were she studied design at the Folkwang Art Academy in Essen.  In England she met her husband with whom she had four children and shared a love for adventure.  They lived in London, Uganda, Edmonton, Ottawa and the Canadian Arctic.  Life in Africa and the Arctic inspired Renate’s love for remote places.
In 1984 Renate received a B.A. with Honours in Art History from Carleton University.

Ten years after the unexpected death of her husband in 1991, Renate returned to the Arctic, this time seeing it by cruise ship.  Her latest watercolours of the Arctic  are based on sketches and field photographs made while in a moving ship or zodiac.  In her studio Renate creates variations of her subject as she becomes re-acquainted with the initial experience.