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Betty Goodwin's depictions of the human body, suffering, and the passage of time resonated with me when I discovered her at the Manitoba Gallery. These haunting images spoke to me in ways I wasn't familiar with. I was incredibly young and foolish at the time. I was on an adventure crossing our country to the West Coast.

When I saw Goodwin's mysterious works, she drew me in with those lines, that density, that complexity pulled me in, and hasn't let me go ever since. Even to this day, when I see her artwork on the walls of Toronto's Union Station, I am reminded of her encapsulating nature. She is a genius of dark metaphors and decisive yet fluid ambiguity.

Join me as we go deep into her world as a creative. What inspiration brought her to this precipice? How did printmaking become her focus? How did she learn to decipher her intensity to create these masterpieces? Was she influenced by anyone in particular? Or was her style unique and original? What drove her to become an artist in the first place?   

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