Image Gallery: Valerie Kingsmill, an artist whose palettes include oil on canvas and pencil on paper as well as restaurant kitchens, food and customer service, is fundamentally a teller of tales and stories from her life and faith. She has compiled some "tails" in two books for children (Redberry Tales) about creatures in a landscape she knows intimately.The late Ernest Fosbery RCA (Peter Kingsmill's acclaimed Ottawa-based grandfather) passed on some of his paintings. We have included one of them - showing two of his daughters in their early teens in 1919, alongside the St. Lawrence River. Both daughters (Phyllis and Patricia - Peter's mum) were artists in their own right. And, the late Alice Stevenson, a close friend of Patricia and a fellow artist and illustrator, was a prolific creator of prints with messages: "Strikers" and "Lockout" were created during the 1950s, a period of social unrest in Montreal where she lived, and "Warriors in Training" in the early 1980s after her marriage to Grange Kingsmill.