Alix McLachlan is a full time artist who began to re-discover her passion for painting over 10 years ago.  Primarily self taught, at the moment Alix is working in abstract form with a mix of acrylic and enamel spray.  In some of Alix's earlier works she used a blowtorch and from that experience has since then used it only outside and not in her garage!  Utilizing mostly second hand materials and donated paints, she follows no set "rules" about colour or placement but follows her immediate gut feelings about where the paint should go and when.  A painting can take hours or months to finish.  When the emotions stop, so to does the painting. 

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The artist also refinishes furniture in a process she likes to call "funk-ifying" .  Each piece is lovingly restored not to it's original beauty but to a new life as a functional piece of artwork.  Each piece comes with a story and as the artist works with the piece it becomes (in her mind) either male or female and then is referred to as "he" or "she" when talking about the piece.  The blue chairs featured in testimonials became The Twins and the red dresser was The Red Velvet Queen, complete with lacy "drawers".  Currently obsessed with a Caribbean blue, she is experimenting with FAT paint which is a particular brand of chalk paint.