[Watercolour / Acrylic]

Mancino is a professional painter, teacher, art critic and juror. Her passions for life and travel can be seen in her dramatic artworks. Mancino has a distinctive and innovative experimental style. She brings a fresh and vibrant perspective to people-scapes and abstractions.

She completed four years at the Ontario College of Art, and studied experimental art with Lila Lewis Irving, John Leonard, Denis Cliff and Peter Kolisnyk at the Haliburton School of Fine Arts. She studied with Helen Koffee at Belles Artes Institute, San Miguel, Mexico. She is a life long learner and continues to take art workshops which appeal.

Mancino thrives on experimentation using layering, collaging and many other non-brush techniques. She starts with abstract under paintings, pushing herself to remain loose. When it works, she signs it. If it lacks pizzazz, she layers over top letting the under painting shine through. This creates an ethereal or mystical quality to her work for which she is well known. “It is the mystery in the work, which fascinates me”.

Among her numerous awards are The Juror=s Choice Award, Toronto Watercolour Society (2000); The People’s Choice Award 2008, Perth Art on a Lawn; four awards at The Rideau Valley Art Festival (RVAF) in 1996 including Best of Show, First in Mixed Media and First in Watercolour and the People=s Choice Award. She won other First place awards at both the RVAF and the Cabbagetown Festival over the years. With 30 years experience as an adult educator, she delivers joyful workshops and presentations to art associations and public groups.

Mancino’s work can be seen at: Latitude 44, Toronto; Gallery Studio 737, Tweed; The Cambridge Design Gallery, Ottawa; The Tay River Gallery, Perth; The Agnes Etherington Gallery and Gallery Raymond, Kingston and at the Ottawa Mixed media Association’s on line gallery.