Vicki McKague
Email: vickimckague@yahoo.ca
I have been creating artwork ever since I was a little girl and was fortunate to have my
parents encourage this love. When I reached secondary school and won the Grade 12 art
proficiency award, it caused me to seriously consider art as a full-time career. But my Dad sat
me down and said, ”Being an artist, you would never be able to afford to have a horse.” I owned
a horse at the time and wanted to be able to keep that horse! I took my Dad’s advice and
enrolled in the University of Guelph’s art program and then the University of Western Ontario to
become an art teacher. This has caused major artistic challenges in itself because I have taught
almost everything within the drawing, printmaking, painting and sculptural media as well as art
history for 30 years and have loved all of it! I especially enjoy photography from which I obtain
much of my inspiration. To travel and see masterpieces and architecture throughout the world
has also been a passion of mine which I did while teaching full-time. I have been retired from
teaching art but, with my husband, run a sport horse breeding farm which unfortunately lessens
the amount of time that I spend doing my artwork. Still, the horses inspire me to produce art in
my favourite media - pastel drawings, watercolor and oil glaze paintings. ceramics and porcelain
painting. I have been actively involved in the Blyth Festival Art Gallery and the Porcelain Artists
of Canada for many years but am happy to also be a part of the Saugeen Artists Guild.
