Saga graduated as a physician in 1968, later qualifying as a psychiatrist.  She was recruited by the Alberta government to work for them and so immigrated to Canada in 1975. There wasn’t much time for painting until 2001 when she moved to Ontario to be closer to her family. She is now semi-retired as a doctor, although she still writes a weekly medical column for the “Western Producer”.

Living on a farm both here and in Alberta, she began doing drawings and paintings of animals and farm life. She paints in acrylics and watercolour and likes to paint people, animals and flowers as well as some abstracts and local landscapes of the beautiful Quinte area of Ontario.

In 2002 she learned to make hand-crafted felt with fibre gathered from her own animals (llamas and cashmere goats). She then makes semi-abstract pictures by adding more fibre in a type of collage using a needle felting technique.

Saga is an executive member the Belleville Art Association and a member of the Eastern Ontario Art Association.

Saga is involved in the Tweed Studio Tour and exhibits at the Stirling Fine Art Festival, Kingston Womens Art festival as well as at juried and non-juried shows in the Belleville area.

She has sold pictures to most of the Canadian provinces, the U.S. and the U.K.

Animal Farm, watercolour, private collection

Forest Mills, acrylics on canvas

Red Vine, hand-felted llama fibre  and merino wool

Sunset, hand-felted llama and other fibres