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September 2 - October 3
Bettina Robertson - Painter
Artist Statement
Bettina Robertson is a self-taught artist, who has been painting intermittently for the past twelve years. Her medium has always been in watercolor but she has a strong interest in mixed media and textile. In the past two years, she has begun experimenting with watercolor and abstract, which allows for a greater focus in colors and shapes.
Several of her larger pieces have been commissioned, and now hang in private collections in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. She has been involved in three group exhibitions since arriving in Vancouver.
Prior to moving to Vancouver, Bettina owned and operated a private gallery in the downtown area of Halifax. The gallery offered not only exhibition space but also educational workshops and art therapy sessions for local artists, as well as providing a social environment for artists to come together and share ideas. This project was met with much community support and enthusiasm.
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| Bettina’s formal training is in clinical psychology, with a particular interest in Expressive Therapy. During her studies in graduate school, she completed a certificate program in Psychodrama through Rozelle Hospital. This included puppetry, clowning, music and dance therapy. She is currently launching an arts-based social enterprise called Downside Up, which will provide dozens of marginalized street artists living in the DTES with a sustainable living. |
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October 7 - 31
Wendy Deakins - Photographic Artist
Artist Statement
My art is my way of capturing and highlighting nature’s miracles that pull me to them every day. I travel around the world to obscure places to discover and photograph the diversity of Nature, but I am just as delighted to walk out my front door and photograph the flora that surrounds me in my own city. The idea is to create mosaics with the individual images I have captured on film and bring forth the cohesion of each one to the other. I try to honour each individual image, but with the idea of connecting them to make a united whole, which represents how I feel about us, and nature, and really… the world.
Each piece should draw you in, make you want to get closer, as I did when taking the shots, and then step back and see how every detail is part of the whole magical place we call Earth. I feel extremely lucky that as an artist I get to be a conduit for the natural world, honouring it in my documentation of it. Nature has already painted the masterpiece; I just want to remind us to look.
www.wendydeakins.com
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