Painting, Mixed Media, Books / CD's, Landscape
An award-winning artist, Aili Kurtis was raised in Yellowknife, N.W.T. and left the North to study painting in Toronto (O.C.A.) and in Montreal where she achieved a degree in Art Education from the University of Quebec. When Aili moved to Ottawa she worked as a graphic designer, a courtroom artist,a Creative Director, and taught at the Ottawa School of Art for 10 years. Aili paints the rhythms and patterns of the Canadian landscape in her studio overlooking beautiful Pike Lake in the Rideau Valley.