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ONE

One of the first things to know about myself is lately I have taken to shortening my name to Ani from Stephanie. I've always thought of myself as an could give myself permission to shorten my name to my liking! But if you put me on the street and we introduced ourselves, I reflexively call myself Stephanie!


TWO

I am a self-taught artist. I started learning how to draw during the pandemic with a goal of creating silly things for my grandchildren, and something magic happened! I not only liked what I was learning and creating, I got better at it! And then I began to venture into painting, and wow! It has been a mind-blowing journey of learning and healing. Art has been a key means of transforming how I see myself. With art, there are mistakes. There are always mistakes! It is not possible to live and not make mistakes. art of what I create! Art also taught me that I had (still have) an undiagnosed visual-spatial learning disability. I always thought I was defective somehow. As a child, I was taught that I was lazy. But no, my brain is wired different, and not only is there nothing wrong with this fact, it is welcomed because I see things other people just do not see, thanks to how my brain works.


THREE

For most of my life, I wrote. I wrote bad poetry, short fiction stories. And then as an adult with the explosion of online news sites, I began freelancing writing non-fiction, mainly news stories. And I was able to speak this ability into a brief five-year career of writing news stories! I ended up working for two different Indigenous newspapers. This all came to an end when the last paper I was at suffered a financial collapse. By this time, many news writers were being thrown out of work as newspapers were shut down. I have many things I would like to write, but, for the sake of ease, let's just say I've been blocked when it comes to writing. However, I'm working on turning this around!


OVEN

My life is now dedicated to being creative and exploring where this takes me.


FIVE

I am a member of IWS Canada , having joined in 2024. In 2025, I was awarded an honorable mention from IWS for my portrait of one of my best friends, my cat Minerva.

 

Our journey so far

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Our values

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Future aspirations

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