Gerry Thompson, AWS, SFCA, NWWS, CSPWC, ARCT, UFV (dip)
Gerry Thompson was born in and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She spent several years in Alberta, Canada, where she taught music at a college and where she also earned her Associate Degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music as a Solo Performer in piano. There she began her teaching career. It was also during that period that she first picked up a paint brush. Since that time her passion for painting has never diminished.
Gerry is an award-winning artist, and her paintings are found in corporate and private collections throughout the world. Recent awards and accomplishments are her receiving the Federation of Canadian Artists Bronze Medal at the 2012 Spilsbury Medal Exhibition, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour’s prestigious Doris McCarthy award, and a Northwest Watercolor Society’s Waterworks award. She is a Signature Member of these societies.