Portrait - Donna Voisin, K-W Artist

Donna Voisin, painter and member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Society of Artists, surrounded by red poppies at the society's Remembrance Day art show at 44 Gaukel St. in November. (Photo by J.P. Webster)

It was Donna Voisin's idea to theme Kitchener-Waterloo Society of Artists' (KWSA) yearly member's show on Remembrance Day and the imagery of red poppies. Voisin is an oil painter and a recent member of KWSA who pitched the show's theme to inspire her fellow artists to show their own artistic interpretations of war's cost.

I interviewed Voisin as part of a piece on KWSA's Remembrance Day show, and her mindfulness on the meaning of the day struck a chord with me.