LORETTA WEST has a zest for life and it shows in the movement of her art work.  She spends her life making art in her studio and teaching students about art and how to relax using the meditative art form, Zentangle of which she is certified to teach. She is also trained as a SoulCollage Facilitator. Her work is energetic, colourful and impressionistic, stemming from her love of this earth. She loves to have fun while making art, mixing things up from mediums, to color, design, and various techniques. She is not a purist, but an experimentalist. Over the years, she has trained in various settings from University to private instruction. She is also influenced by plenty of travel in North America and Europe. Her work is in private and public collections in the United States and Canada. If she isn’t wetting the brush, she can be found out doors in the beautiful BC interior exploring her  surroundings by foot, ski, bike, sail or kayak.