Denna Erickson is a Vancouver Island-based artist for whom painting is both a lifelong calling and an intimate language of color, memory, and intuition. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Erickson studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She also received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Victoria in 1997. For more than three decades, she has balanced a dedicated studio practice with teaching, sharing her deep love of painting with adult students across the West Coast of Canada.