Valerie Zwart is an award winning artist-educator and freelance translator and writer. Her driving passion is to help others better express themselves, whether they use a brush or keyboard. Valerie has degrees in English Literature and Political Science and graduated from the foremost art school in Canada, the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her experience as an art instructor in the United States and England honed her ability to teach the art of observing and to help people better express their vision. A recent Bik certification to design and lead children’s art projects, has reignited a latent ‘art evangelism’: ”Children’s artistic development follows an easily identifiable path. Art can be approach just as other subjects are: children can be taught how to evaluate what they make so that they can develop visual literacy and can take pride in their own progress.” Her varied work and educational background and make her exceptionally adept at using language to influence and persuade. Based in the Netherlands for the last eight years, Valerie’s love of the English language has found expression in short story and review writing, founding a book club and undertaking professional projects-- including specialist science and cultural translations for clients like the Free Flow Foundation and the Cobra Museum of Modern Art. Valerie undertakes all her projects with the thoroughness and care that she takes when creating art. In crossover graphic design commissions for scientific institutions, ranging from identities and communication material for clients such as Adigma, Impact and the University of Twente, she has applied her fine art image-making style to corporate communications. Valerie continues to exhibit in Canada and the United States, as well as in the Netherlands. She also participated in exhibitions in Melbourne, Boston and London, and her work is held in private and corporate collections in several countries. In Canada, Ms. Zwart is represented the Gibsone Jessop Gallery.

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