I was so enthralled with the worlk of @benreevesecuad. His work is a love affair with paint, it is so free and freeing just to take in. This is a detail shot of one of my faves. But a picture can not do it justice at all. If you are in YVR, take in his exhibition Something Edge at @equinoxgallery. It is 👌 . . . . . . . #benreeves #contemporaryart #artthatinspires #artisticprocess #yvrarts #yvrartist
Not fancy editing, Just a fancy stack of paintings against the back of my couch. It’s amazing how things in life can just line up. . . . . . . #postartshowpile #mylifetoday #thoughtoftheday #artistmom #canadianartist #myhouse #artsy #creativelife #mybeautifulmess #collage #pattern #blue #contemporaryart #contemporaryintutiveartwork #artforsale #boss #colortheory #yegartist #yegart #homelife
Last week I was going through a stack of pieces to get all ready for the student art sale. This one has been around for a few years now, and has been in a few shows. I had a moment thinking about how when I painted this, I meant to depict a woman whose life is off balance. A woman who holds so many things in her heart and mind. She feels as if the very shape of herself prevents her from ever being to balance all the things in her life. At the time I was thinking about so many women who have to deal with hard things, and thought I must have painted it about them. But when I brought this one up and looked at it this weekend, I knew all of a sudden I had painted myself. That I have held people in my heart, I have carried people in my very body. I have felt off balance and overwhelmed. I think I just want to say that it is easy to do two things: it is easy to look at someone else’s life and say compared to them. I have it really good, and therefore I should never complain. And it’s also easy to look inward and say wow, this is a mess, no matter how good it looks on paper, and I have problems that seem unsolvable, and I feel alone, but I should never complain. And I would say living with perspective is the way out of falling over into either of those camps. This lady, she carries a lot. She feels like she could fall at any moment, and she has fallen a time or three. She hates to feel bad because she feels bad about feeling bad, because her life is Very Good on paper, but she feels worse when she shuts out her feelings entirely. She is learning to live in balance, seeking help from above, below, around and within to stay grounded and to keep receiving and giving love, no matter the shape of her life or the situations she faces, no matter the size of them, big or small or just medium. With these realizations, I touched her up and said a little goodbye to the me who held so much and tried so hard to pretend that everything was fine when it wasn’t. And then. This one sold, which means the goodbye was final and now she can live on and tell a new story, a fresh beginning somewhere else ❤️ #fromtheheart #allshemusthold #heartfelt #mystory #mybeautifulmess #lettinglovein
It’s that time again! ECUAD student art sale this weekend. Once again I’m thankful the school puts this on and I’m happy to be part of it. Today 12 - 5 pm, tomorrow 12 - 5 pm. . . . . . . . #artshow #artsale #canadianartist #emergingartist #artstudent #shoplocal #yvrart #originalart #contemporaryart
How do I capture the craziness that comes with being a parent? Sometimes it requires an unorthodox approach. I painted this after last years #yegfolkfest when just a few hours of mayhem with the kiddos in the rain was enough for me. . . . . . . . . #momlife #littlemonsters #abstractart #mylife #canadianart #colorcolorcolor #abstractart #contemporaryart #yegartist #yvrartist #emergingartist #visualart #arte #kunst #mycrazylife #wip #artinthemaking #mycreativelife #detail
My Spencer made me a giant bookmark today and I love it. He is colourblind like many males in the fam and I really think it increases the eye for line and contrast. I see that in his cousin Max’s art too. In a weird way, having colourblind family members is something I’m proud of and think about a lot, because they always help me see things a little differently. Soon it might all be correctable too so they will have to decide if they want to see in colour when they are a little older. I think that is a really strange thing to have to consider. . . . . . . . #family #mykiddo #homemade #handdrawn #sharpie #blackandwhite #kidart #abstractart #emergingart
I love that I don’t know what I’m doing. I hate that I don’t know what I’m doing. I love what I am doing...what am I doing? . . . . . . . . . . #artprocess #artistpractice #painteveryday #painterslife #paintingagain #yegartist #artisticjourney #arte #kunst #creativelife #abstract #contemporaryart #rawart #intuitiveart #artstudent #emergingartist #canadianartist #colorcolorlovers #artistmom
Two kids and a bridge. #tbt that time we drove to Oregon and spent way too much time creeping on the I-5 getting there and back 😆. . . . . . #artistmom #exploretocreate #astoria #roadtrippin #astoriabridge #momoftwo #womanartist #picoftheday #childhoodunplugged #rainydays #blackandwhite #memories #wildthings #theymakemyheartsing #yvrartist #yegartist #americanadventure
This one is up on saatchiart.com/Marcie Rohr canvas print is available 👍🏼 🌞 😘 . . . . . . . . . #originalart #artforsale #artsale #saatchiart #arte #kunst #everydayartist #artistmom #paintingoftheday #mycreativejourney #heartfeltart #art_spotlight #painting🎨 #colorama #exploretocreate #artonig #contemporaryart #yvrart #yegartist
Wishful Thinking . . . . . #acrylicpainting #acrylicart #newart #artforsale #yegartist #yvrartist #emergingartist #canadianartist #makeawish #dontstopdreaming #believe #picoftheday #thoughtoftheday #findinghope #artoftheday #colorcolorlovers #artistmom #2018art #kunst #abstractart #allablur #storythroughart #mycreativejourney #sayitthroughart
Sometime I saw this, and the “alright” part of it was either unlit or obscured. And I found a simple and profound comfort in that. Everything Is Going To Be. No matter what. That is something I can breathe into and out of. . . . . . . . . . #thoughtoftheday #lifeinyvr #picoftheday #arteveryday #photographictruth #blackandwhite #everythingeverything #thoughts #being #life #this #boss #canadianartist #creativelife #artistmom #yegartist #everythingisgoingtobe #storyofmylife #tellastory #artintheeveryday #architecture #yvr
Life is better with friends 👭 👭 . . . . . . . #yvrart #emergingartist #happyartist #intuitiveartist #studiotime #paintingtoday #yegartist #canadianartist #friends #artinprogress #contmeporaryart #allthefeels #givesomeoneahug #friendswhosingtogetheratfolkfest #folkfest #yegfolkies #kunst #artonig #artistmom #womanartist #colorful #colorcolorlovers
Painting makes motion out of all my emotional ❤️ . . . . . . . . . . . #unfinishedbusiness #wip #acrylicart #acrylicpainting #contemporaryart #canadianartist #emergingartist #newwork #kunst #arte #thoughtoftheday #yegartist #studiotime #wetpaint #colortheory #artstudent #yvrartist #artistmom #maturestudent #colourcolourlovers #paintallthetime #creativeheart #mybeautifulmess #exploreart #galacticart #abstractart #dreamyart #flamingabstracts #carveouttimeforart #nofilter
Sometimes story can be sculptural. This little book project is complete but believe you me, there is more where that came from! This piece will be on display at ECUAD for the duration of the Vancouver Art Book Fair Oct 18-21. . . . . . . . . #artandstory #artshow #artistbook #yvrartist #studentoflife #artondisplay #picoftheday #contemporaryart #mixedmediaart #mixedmediaartist #canadiancontemporaryart #canadianartist #artistmom #onbeingawife #mystory #artandvoice #visualart #thoseshadows #arteveryday #kunst #artstory #herstory #herstorytelling #foundtext #collage #collageart
Piecing together pages for an artist book. Rejecting beliefs: that an amazing piece work can’t possibly come from this mess of scrap paper on my kitchen table, that something pure and profound and rich can’t come from this heavy heart. That story is not something that is outside of myself, waiting to be born, loved and held in the heart of a stranger. That some of the best pieces of art didn’t come out of a time like this, sitting in my kitchen on a rainy day, scribbling and sewing and chatting with my mama on the phone. . . . . . . . . #artistbook #wip #picoftheday #workofheart #canadianartist #artilove #artandheart #allthefeels #instafeels #myartjourney #artfortoday #paperart #blackandwhite #design #artanddesign #bookmaking #vancouverartist #womanartist #artistmom #artinoctober #artincanada #yegartist
It’s been a week where Truth came and knocked me on the head, so hard, I fell, and disoriented, I cried tears from springs so deep inside I didn’t even know they existed (and that is really saying something, for someone so familiar with her inner tear-spring system). Truth clobbered me, and I looked at myself in the mirror. “Who are you? I asked, with bleary, puffy eyes. “Who have you become?” I asked myself. And the woman who looked back at me stared blankly. She didn’t know the answer either. So I sat my broken self down by the River, where springs are always fresh, where broken hearts from every walk of life know to gather. And gather I did. Truth hurt me, and Love came in and healed me, healed me good and deep. This was just another week in the life of this lady. I looked in the mirror today, my eyes no longer puffy. A smile sprang easily to my face. Who am I? I am a seeker of truth, even when it hurts. I am in need of love. I am a child of God. I am a work in progress. I am a mama and a wife and a friend and I am a student of life. I walk in this truth, I walk with my arms open and my roots deep in the spring of truth that never runs dry. That is all. #myweek #lessons #truthseeker #canadianartist #heartfelt #allthefeels #contemporaryintuitiveartist #artistmom #mycreativejourney #canadianartist #yvrartist #yegartist #acrylicartist #christianwalk #worshipeveryday #faithled #myheart #thoughtoftheday #mylife #thisismystory #artandstory
These new pieces have a journey vibe to them, although I’ve called them The Waiting Place. I am always trying to figure out if I am journeying or standing still. In hard times, I feel stuck. I feel as if I am not going anywhere, much less out of the labyrinth of adult world issues that could be tackled, if I could just get going....that’s how it feels. Yesterday and the day before have been reminders that even when I think I am going nowhere, I still have power. Power to provoke, to communicate on so many levels, power to receive, to let love in. And sometimes when I am going nowhere, I see someone heading straight toward me. This is the year of 10s. 10 years a nurse. 10 years a children’s home director. And as of yesterday, 10 years a wife. And this week, all of these realms have taxed and exhausted me. They have all confused me. They have all hurt me. But you know what? In this Waiting Place, a quiet, beautiful, unreal peace has found me in the time of my deepest need. At work, through the mouth of an observer; a Grandma. Pure love just rambling out of her mouth and straight into my heart. With the children’s home, the courage of friends close and new to step in and speak for or contribute towards this cause that they have never visited themselves, giving to help build a roof over girls they have never met. And in my own relationship, where bombs have fallen and old scars around my heart have ripped open, in a bed where two tired souls fell asleep and faced our own two disturbing dreams, there was a quiet awakening, a promise renewed after a decade of life lived together. Before I could say a word, I woke up from a nightmare with hands on my head and prayers being whispered over me. I feel weak, but I know where the strength lies. On days like this when I have absolutely nothing, where I’ve been walking up hill both ways and I have not another single step left, I feel the strength of God carrying me through. It’s going to be ok. It’s going to be good. Actually, it’s going to be amazing ❤️ ♥️ ❤️ #justwaitandsee #arttoday #thisweek #strength #thoughtstoday #peacebewithyou #myheart
#detail shot of things in the works ❤️ . . . . . . . #thewaitingplace #whereeverybodyisjustwaiting #peacebewithyou #justoneofthoseweeks #artistmom #mybeautifulmess #exploretocreate #emergingart #wip #contemporaryart #mycreativelife #instaart #flamingabstracts #instagoodness #allthefeels #originalart #canadianartist #boss #colourcolourlovers #acrylicpainting #arte #kunst #crazyartist #yegartist #yvrartist #yvrartists