Kidist Paulos Asrat has an extensive background in the arts. She has studied film and photography at Ryerson University under Bruce Elder, an experimental filmmaker, and Don Snyder, a photographer. She has had her film and photography exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her contribution to the arts community includes as Board of Director for Trinity Square Video, a non-profit video art organization, and as a presenter and speaker on art and beauty.
Her visual arts background also covers two years of drawing and painting classes under Toronto artist Michael Jenzen, and with botanical artist Leslie Staple. She has also spent two years studying textile design at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Her professional activity combines the graphic and textile arts which incorporate many of her photographs, drawings and paintings.
Ontario Views: Picturing My Landscape is her tribute to the southern Ontario landscape, portraying the lakes, valleys, hills, and cities of her home province. Her watercolours and photographs are of the southern Ontario landscape, from pristine Lake Huron down to the majestic Niagara Falls. Her textile patterns are part of these Ontario motifs, whose images of natural and urban landscapes she brings into the home presenting them on familiar material such as wallpaper and fabric prints.
She has a broad theoretical and historical knowledge of the arts and has written articles on art, society and culture.