Ekphrasis: Art inspired by other Art- across forms

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: This digital print (photograph) on fibre was inspired by the writing of "The Dean of Western Writers", Wallace Stegner, with a soundtrack by the Tragically Hip.

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: This digital print (photograph) on fibre was inspired by the writing of "The Dean of Western Writers", Wallace Stegner, with a soundtrack by the Tragically Hip.

Dimensions: 4 x 12 x 12
About your piece:: Sculpted from Carrara Marble, the piece represents the goddess Venus reclining on her shell bed asleep. It was inspired by the famous tempera painting by Botticelli (1484-1486) which shows Venus emerging from the sea after her birth (fully-grown); and arriving at the shore, having been transported on a shell. The sculpture took some 250 hours to complete utilizing fine diamond tools as part of its finish.

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: Ever walk into the woods by yourself? As I walked into the woods I realized how noisy the forest was. Every crack and creek, every snap and flutter, every wisp of the wind and hoot of an owl, every drop of a leaf and scamper of tiny feet was amplified to orchestral heights. It was music to my ears…albeit a little scary at times. The mysterious wonder of it all.

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1.5
About your piece:: The forest is such a source of inspiration for me. It’s brutality, wisdom, and beauty are unending. The life lessons are abundant from the cycle of life, death to rebirth, new beginning, patience and extreme beauty. The calm, clarity and sense of wonder bring me such joy and the sounds are music to my ears.

Dimensions: 30 x 24
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About your piece:: This piece was in response to Rupi Kaur's tedx talk titled "I'm taking my body back. I struggled with painting a portrait of Rupi because I was torn between sheer anger at not just the person that abused her but also toward people in my own life, and in my family and friends lives who had had their childlike innocence taken away. I felt that sense of self destructiveness that can be taken out with sharp gestural lines on a canvas, the scraping and slashing on of paint. But contrasting to that was a feeling of not letting the darkness inside overwhelm me, to open the windows and let in the light. I chose to paint the woman hovering on the border of a relationship between ghosts in her past and being at home, holding her pen and trusting her voice.

Dimensions: 40 x 30
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About your piece:: I was inspired by Chopin's piano piece Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major). Chopin directs the pianist: Maestoso. This music piece is majestic and powerful, tender and strong. Like the tree, the Heroic Polonaise can bring you to your knees with its sublime intensity; its strength in a storm; its graceful and strong movement. Listen at: https://musescore.com/classicman/scores/55757

Dimensions: 20 x 48 x 0.75
About your piece:: This triptych made of oil and cold wax on canvas is inspired by three poems from the book The Girls with Stone Faces by Arleen Pare. Her poems are, in turn, inspired by the sculpture of the two Canadian sculptures, Florence Wyle and Frances Loring. Specifically, my lines, shapes and marks were inspired by Arleen's; hers by theirs. Individual titles: there's something about three; concerning lips; the way it works.

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Dimensions: 20 x 32 x 1.5
About your piece:: These two artworks- Directions: two and Directions: many, are based on lines from a poem, Heart's Arrow by Arleen Pare. The lines are: art's arrow flies in one direction/ you don't change art/ it changes you

Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 1.5
About your piece:: The fairytale by Hans Christian Anderson, The Nightingale, inspired a painting that incorporated the following poem.

Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1
About your piece:: Inspired by and relating to Van Gogh's painting of the sunflowers that were offered to Gaugin as an invitation to join Van Gogh's imagined utopian artist colony. I placed a sunflower at my front door as a signal. That act evolved into the following poem and into a series of ink and watercolours. The inked image on display incorporates flowers found growing wild in the tiny, conflicted village where I live, a village once promoted in utopian- in terms as “planned for happiness”, along with discarded remains of fish caught in the local bay – head, tail and ear.