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Allison
Barkley grew up in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, just a few doors from
the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, where she spent many imaginative
days. In her early twenties she migrated west to Victoria, British
Columbia, where she resided for a few years before packing and moving
up north to the Yukon. She lived there as a pioneer woman and taught
art classes at an elementary school, on reserve, in Lower Post, BC.
After a few years in the Yukon, she travelled Canada for about a year,
before slowly making her way back west.
Allison has been a figure painter for over ten years and has shown
her work in galleries in Victoria and Vancouver. She is strongly
influenced by the expressionists of the second world war. Allison is
also a short film-maker and has done several small projects, mainly in
the north.
Now residing on the Sunshine Coast, she is recording at Oceanview
Studios and will soon be releasing her first album.
Please visit http://www.allisonbarkley.com for artwork, newsletters and more music.
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