Me in my studio built in 2021

• Exhibiting Active Member-Federation of Canadian Artists
• Exhibiting Artist/Member Arts & Culture Colwood-Coast Collective Art Society
• Artist/Member-Cowichan Valley Arts Council
• Al Frescoes Plein Air Painters
• Artist Member Saanich Peninsula Arts & Crafts Society
• Artist Member North Vancouver Community Arts Council
• Visual Arts Teacher, Saanich District # 63  
  
  

Monique Froehler graduated from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC with a Bachelor of Fine Arts focussed on printmaking and painting. Upon graduation, she worked in Graphic Design and Illustration for a few years creating editorial illustrations, business marketing materials, children/youth novel covers and more. After working for a few years in Graphic Design, Monique went back to university and pursued a teaching degree in Secondary Art at the University of British Columbia.  

She has been a plein-air painter since she was 4 years old which began at her grandparents summer cabin in the Okanagan in response to wild and wooly summer storms. She loves to paint in the changing moods of the outdoors as well as working from her own reference photographs in her studio. 

Since moving to Vancouver Island in 2017, she has regularly shown and sold her art out of her North Saanich studio.  She is not attempting photo-realism but she does like to represent real things gazing through a lens to her own feelings, colours and various media. 

Making art is Monique’s  way of expressing how she feels about what she sees in her daily landscape and her past connections. Her work is often based in nostalgia that she likes to refer to in her pieces. Art keeps her present and grounded in her busy daily life.