Brenda has nineteen years experience in painting and drawing. Since 1981, she has studied drawing and painting with a number of local artists including Rita Shellard, Fred Maheux, Morton Baslaw, Carol Wilson, Cathy Edmonds, Heather Gallup, Nancy Myron, David Jones, Roy Cottee, and Stuart Beaty, as well as internationally known artists Margaret Roseman, Tom Lynch and Art Cunanan.