Award-winning Ontario College of Art and Design Alumna Stephanie Hill was strongly influenced by her studies ofthe Early Renaissance masters in Florence, Italy, and bya life of summers spent cottaging on an Island in the St.Lawrence River near her home town of Cornwall, Ontario. After 15 years of drawing and painting in Vancouver BC, she moved with her family to live and work in Wakefield Quebec, where she is an executive member of the artiststudio cooperative Place des Artistes de Farrellton.