Nicola Valley Artist Spotlight – Angela Ho

MERRITT — Even though Angela Ho pursued a technical career in engineering, art has always been a part of her life.

When she was four, her parents put her in music lessons and she followed her sister’s footsteps in learning the piano.

It was tough as a kid, as her family took music very seriously and were always busy practising piano, performing in recitals or competing in music festivals.

She was eager to put piano behind her, but “not until I finished all my exams for my diploma”, which was the deal with her parents.

She was completely convinced she would pursue a very different career.

“In high school, my favourite class was Home Economics which was a sampling of cooking, woodworking and sewing.  All three of the subjects allowed me to put my creativity to work, as well as my analytically skills, in completely different ways.  I loved how you can construct something useful or fun. I was especially taken with sewing and I’ve continued it as a hobby to today.”

Having had time to explore both her analytical and creative side, Angela learned that she especially enjoyed when she can use both together.

Angela loved doing creative crafts, with a challenging twist.  Or appreciate how a complicated piece of artwork was composed.

She also realize that even though she thought practising the piano was a tedious chore, music and the arts taught her patience, expressiveness, and personal discipline, which helped shape the person that she is.

“Having the Nicola Valley Community Arts Centre in Merritt is a wonderful way that I can continue to be inspired and explore art.”