Always “drawn” to the arts, she remembers sketching her peers while pursuing her first passion, dance, at The National Ballet School. She was introduced to the world of portraiture by a teenage summer job at Canada’s Wonderland. At the University of Guelph, where she studied printmaking, sculpture, and video, figurative images always invited themselves in. She has now been making figurative paintings and accepting diverse portrait commissions for over 10 years. Meredith Blackmore has painted for television and had celebrity dancer Rex Harrington choose her painting on an episode of Bravo!TV’s Star Portraits.