About The Artist

Val Moker is best known as an award winning painter of Western Art. She won the “Best new Artist Award” at the Calgary Stampede in 1999, the “Peoples’ Choice Award” at the Canadian Portrait Academy, and has followed up with other citations including the Will Rogers Medallion Award from the Academy of Western Artists in Oklahoma. Val also excels in figurative and nature painting. Val’s oil and acrylic paintings have appeared in venues ranging from Cowboys & Indians Magazine and Kennedy Publication’s Best of Worldwide Oil Book, to Hollywood’s Golden Boot Awards which is sponsored and presented by the Motion Picture & Television Fund. She’s completed commissions ranging from the Kidney Foundation of Canada to the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in the United States. Val has degrees in education and arts from the University of Saskatchewan. In addition to her own painting, she has taught art in both the School System and in settings such as Learning Through the Arts (LTTA), a structured curriculum development program sponsored by the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. Moker’s dedication and striving for connection between her work and her audience places her amoung today’s growing talents in the International Art Community.