Valerie Kent was born in Hungary but  has made Richmond Hill her home.

She paints in watercolours, acrylics, oils and mixed media and gives workshops to art societies and at colleges throughout Ontario as well as offering regular courses in watercolour and oil painting. She does art therapy at hospitals in the GTA.

Her work is in many collections worldwide and she has shown her work in solo, juried, and group shows for many years as well as being represented by commercial galleries.

Her Artist's Statement:
To capture through art a fragment of our collective experience. To experience deep meaning and deep thought, the joy of creative expression. We move through life with grace, ethics and spirituality, and relearn daily through our art to cherish humanity and our natural world.