Yvonne has attended workshops in White Rock B.C., Painters Lodge, Campbell River, River Rock Studios AB, and numerous classes and workshops instructed by AFCA and SFCA artists here in the Okanagan Valley B.C. as well.
She was accepted as a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour in 2001, and is in the National Permanent Collection of the Art Gallery of Peel in Brampton, Ontario. An active member in the Okanagan FCA Chapters in Kelowna B.C and North Okanagan Chapter B.C. She is a founding member of the local Kelowna Chapter (1997) and also the Painters Studio Society (1992).
Yvonne was a finalist in the Artists Magazine Annual Competition in 1999 and has had articles published in the Watercolour Gazette, Events Magazine, Showcase, Capital News, also the Kelowna Daily Courier where she wrote an Art Column for some years. Was featured also in the Okanagan Life Magazine.
Her works are in private collections in Canada, USA, United KIngdom and Europe.