About the Artist
Taking time to listen to the creative energy of the materials and the space where I am creating is just as important for my art practice as the skills and visions I have for a piece, or even the end result.
What I create can be part impressionistic, part symbolic, part whimsical and a few other little bits of influence thrown in for good measure. In short, my art is specific and personal outer expressions of how I see and experience the world within myself. My art practice is how I integrate the stories being shared with me from the world around me.
I focus my time and creative energy as a land artist working in various places both nationally and internationally. Based in the Canadian Pacific North West, this practice is deeply informed by my connection with Mother Nature and the healing powers she offers us as part of this complex system, as I have witnessed as a therapist and for my own journey dealing with anxiety and burn out.
My land art practice has also increasingly been impacted by the incredible disconnect that we as humans live, grow, imagine, evolve in, because of the abundance intrinsic in our natural world, yet we consistently ignore the unequivocal fact of limited resources within this living system. I work with what I have, what I encounter naturally and always with a respect of the legacy of the creations. This alignment of healing, earth ethos, conscious consumerism and creative trust has become the way in which I am an artist.
I create with nature, earth and space in a co creation process.
Led by an ever-present curiosity and need to express an inner world that didn’t always match the outer worlds she found herself in, Angela explored the arts in various ways. After receiving an undergrad degree in photographic arts and she started a studio in Toronto right out of school. She began painting murals and then canvases to balance life with small children and more traditional work experiences before returning to study and receive a master’s degree in expressive arts therapy.
Founding a thriving arts-based studio and therapy practice in Vancouver where clients could immerse in the arts as a form of healing and finding their particular creative voice became a catalyst for bringing nature into the forefront of her own creative practice. Taking groups individuals into nature, leading explorations and creative challenges with Mother Nature’s abundance and healing wisdom, reignited her calling to create in and with nature as her primary artistic practice.
