User:IlzeBerzins

Ilze Berzins artist, educator, author Born Sept 5 1942 in Talsi, Latvia Became a Canadian citizen in 1953 Graduated from McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal. In 1980 she founded an art school for children called The New Art Space in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has exhibited widely in Montreal and in Halifax and her paintings are in private collections and in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. She is the author of a series of murder mysteries as well as biographical portraits and her memoir. Titles: A True Love Story The Blood Red Teardrop Portrait of a Latvian Beauty Freedom Ghosts & Shadows Kolka Riga Blanca Riga Mortis A Tear in God’s Eye Revenge on the Rideau Death in the Glebe Happy Girl Collage

BOOK REVIEWS
 * Collage
 * Leslie Smith The Chronicle Herald  The Mail Star 1988
 * Alexa Thompson Visual Arts Nova Scotia  1988
 * Richard Mueller  The Daily News Sunday Magazine  Dec 18 1988
 * Happy Girl
 * Diana Kiesners latviansonline.com  2002
 * Jazeps Beldavs   Latvija Amerika   2002
 * Death in the Glebe
 * Mike Gillespie The Ottawa Citizen  Feb 27, 2000
 * Diana Kiesners latviansonline.com   2003
 * Revenge on the Rideau
 * Mike Gillespie  The Ottawa Citizen   Dec 17 2000
 * A Tear in God’s Eye
 * Mike Gillespie The Ottawa Citizen  Jan 13, 2002
 * Andris Straumanis latviansonline.com
 * Riga Mortis
 * Mike Gillespie  The Ottawa Citizen 2002
 * Rihards Kalnins  The Baltic Times  August 14 2003
 * Andris Straumanis  latviansonline.com   2003
 * Riga Blanca
 * The Baltic Times 2004
 * Laiks
 * Andris Straumanis latviansonline.com 2004
 * Mike Gillespie The Ottawa Citizen  2004
 * Kolka
 * Mike  Gillespie The Ottawa Citizen   2005
 * Andris Straumanis latviansonline.com Feb 19 2005
 * Ghosts & Shadows
 * Mike Gillespie The Ottawa Citizen 2005
 * Andris Straumanis latviansonline.com Jan 31 2006
 * Freedom
 * William Bushnell  Morning Sentinel  Maine Today  2007
 * Andris Straumanis latviansonline.com March 1 2008
 * Portrait of a Latvian Beauty
 * Juris Dreifelds  latviansonline.com   March 12 2011