Wren Katzalay started painting at a very early age in her Father‘s studio, but it wasn’t until after training as a chef in Paris, and a career in culinary arts that she took some evening art classes. There was no looking back! She graduated from the Victoria College of Art in 1999 and has been painting full-time in her garden studio ever since.

As an expressionist, process painter, Wren's work often deals with the idea of memory. Sometimes clear, sometimes hidden, memories can be isolated on their own, or jumbled together, they can become distorted, mutilated and transformed over time. Like the layers of memories, Wren uses bits or fragments of lines, layers of plaster, paint and charcoal that speak to the idea of a personal history. Like memory, the process of creating and breaking down images, the textural quality of the work, and the hidden and revealed layers evoke a sense of times passage. 

Wren lives is Victoria, British Columbia with her daughter. She shows her work both locally and internationally.