This one is in no rush to be completed...which is nice! I’m Just having fun along the way. . . . . . . . #wip #workinprogress #arte #yvrartist #happyartistmom #artistmom #artisticjourney #acrylicpainting #canadianartist #emergingartist #emergingart #contemporary_art #paintingoftheday #mycreativemess #exploretocreate #mycreativelife #flamingabstracts #kunst
We have been in our house for 1 year and I finally got a chance to hang some sweet prints from @drwbnsn and @riverluna.art ❤️my kids are lucky to see such 👌 work on the daily. . . . . #arte #greatart #interior #originalart #boss #yegartist #riverluna
“Well That Just Hit Me Right In The Heart-Bone” . . . . . . . . . . . . #paintingoftheday #painting🎨 #acrylicpainting #artisticjourney #creativeprocess #studiotime #canadianartist #emergingartist #emergingart #tellastory #artstory #artistoninsta #artoftheday #colors🎨 #colorful #instafeels #yegartist #yvrartist #contemporarycanadianart
“Tired Mom At Folk Fest” . . . . . . . . . #canadianartist #mybeautifulmess #explorecreate #yegartist #yegarts #colorcolorlovers #painteveryday #paintingoftheday #workofheart #truth #letsberealhere #tiredmom #artistmom #mybeautifullife #abstractart #boss #braveart #emergingart #emergingartist #yegsummer #instafeels #allthefeels #creativeprocess #creativejourney #artandstory #womanartist #honestsituation #instaartistic #kunst #arte
“In Search of Something Real” . . . . . . . . . . #canadianartist #mybeautifulmess #yvrartist #intuitiveartist #truth #picoftheday #instaart #instaartist #colorcolorcolor #interior #emergingartist #mycreativejourney #allthefeels #travellingartist #spiritualjourney #findrest #artistmom #tiredartist #tiredartistmom #yegartist #artsy #kunst #contemporarycanadianartist #studiotime #wip #abstractart #newartwork #acrylicart #paintandsing
“Breathing in the Smoke of 600 Fires” . . . . . . . #enoughsaid #truth #sadstate #acrylicpainting #contemporaryartist #contemporaryintuitiveart #canadianartist #emergingartist #mybeautifulmess #artistmom #storytelling #paintingtoday #painteveryday #carveouttimeforart #yvrarts #yegartist
I am overwhelmed. Thank you so much everyone for supporting our project something fierce at our fundraiser last night. We are off to an awesome start for our Raise the Roof project...and now our campaign is live! www.gogetfunding.com/raisetheroofnepal . . . . . . . . #thankyouthankyou #thankful #happyartistlady #canadianartist #fundraiser #mycreativejourney #awesomecommunity #yegarts #yegartist #nepalheart
We had such a fun afternoon at the #harmonyartsfestival in West Vancouver. I can’t think of a more perfect way to spend a holiday Monday than with live music, local food, artists and artisans all while watching ships cross the shimmering waters. I’m thankful to have been selected for the group show. Not pictured: my Zoe was second person in four days to win “the jackpot” at the Kins Farm market stand! She was pleased as pie! ☀️ 😃 👍🏼 🏝 . . . . . . #localart #artfestival #yvrart #westvanart #canadianartist #emergingartist #artistmom #summerday #vancouversummer #canadiansummer #artsy #instaart #instagood #happymonday
Here’s a wee drawing I found while going through older work. . . . . . . . #taketimetodraw #arteveryday #picoftheday #handdrawn #originalart #originalartowork #yvrartist #drawingtime #happyartistmom #mybeautifulmess #mycreativejourney #animals #animaldrawing #illustration #emergingart #wmergingartist #contemporaryartist #canadianart #workofheart #white #interior #cute #cuteart
I’ve started to think about a space for waiting. What it means to be standing somewhere, not knowing what comes next, aching for what has passed. I have been thinking about what it means to embrace this space, and to visualize it: what does a waiting space look like? No sooner had I started on this train of thought, inspired out of situations unrelated to art, and the strong winds of of impatience began to whirl through me. A desire to resolve all the paintings I’ve started. Hope to find greater measures of success, discouragement with what I perceive to be my own inadequacies on the road thus far. A desire to just remove myself from this week and just skip ahead two or so and then just deal with life from there...it seems I have a lot to learn inside this waiting space of mine! Anyone else feel like they are in a waiting space like a complicated escape room situation? “What Comes Next?” Acrylic on birch panel Work in progress 16 x 16 in . . . . . . . . #thewaitingspace #problemsolving #abstractart #abstractartadventures #inspiredaily #colors🎨 #colorful #artisticadventures #artisticjourney #arte #artistmom #yvrartist #yegartist #canadianartist #colorful #artsy #details #wip #instaart #thoughtoftheday #artoftheday #workofheart #whatcomesnext? #Kunst #heartwork #emergingart #happysaturday #waitingisnteasy #boss
Spent the last hour working on this #wip and while doing so, mediating about 5 different arguments, letting my kids chase the garbage truck to the next block, and telling my 5 year old no, you can’t longboard down the hill while Mom is painting. #thatswhereidrawtheline . . . . . . . . #momlife #distracted #quiettimeforeveryone #studiotime #studiovisitors #multitasking #emergingartist #artistmom #carveouttimeforart #acrylicart #abstractart #artisticprocess #contemporaryartist #picoftheday #painting🎨 #artfeels #abstractart #kunst #colorcolorcolor #colorlovers #everydayartist #mycreativelife #mybeautifulmess #painteveryday #problemsolvingskills #flamingabstracts
I get a million impressions when people see my work. I love hearing the different cultures people see there, in the mixed paint. It’s all a bit of a mystery to me. The truth is, I’m interested in what is “really “ going on, deep below the surface of our perception and our opinions. I’m interested in who we “really” are, what we are made of tangibly and philosophically. I can draw a nice smiling human face. But on that face, can you see struggle? Can you see fear and insecurity and confusion? Can you feel when peace washes over all of that? What does that look like in reality, or a painting? How do you paint a scene where hands are laid on a shoulder and someone feels a wave of shivers down their spine? That is the challenge I’m after. And I love how images created out of this unwavering desire to depict the deep, the confusing, the unseen, they come out patchy and blurred, awkward, humbled. That’s what I’m after, in life and paint. . . . . . . . #inspiredaily #everydayartist #artistmom #artfeels #outsiderart #abstractart #arte #contemporarycanadianart #yvrart #acrylic #painting🎨 #paintingoftheday #instafeels #kunst #paintingtherapy #emergingartist #emergingart #artisticjourney #faith #hope #prayer #mybeautifulmess #myartisticjourney #paintingtoday #colors #paintandsing #paintastory #recievelove
We spent the weekend camping and hiking bits of the Juan De Fuca trail. Stunning. Rocky beaches with mist rising up the sand. Massive cliffs. Frothy churning water on rock. Glorious. I came back and found this piece to work on with all those oceany feels 👍🏼 😃 ♥️ #westcoastbestcoast . . . . . #oceanbeauty #interior #contemporarycanadianart #arteveryday #inspiredaily #artistmom #artfeels #instaartist #yegartist #workinprogress #painting🎨 #paintingoftheday #picoftheday #happymonday #westcoastcontemporary #yvrartist #happysummer #playindirt #emergingartist #makingart #makingartdaily #mycreativejourney #mybeautifulmess #wip #todayswip
Faces and ferns . . . . . . . . #happysummer #artistmom #everydayartist #artinprocess #artfeels #canadianart #comtemporaryartist #artsy #colors🎨 #paintingoftheday #instaart #yvrart #westcoastartist #colorcolorcolor #artandstory #tellastory #mycreativelife #mybeautifulmess #artforsale #summervibes #summerartist #inspiredaily
Hey guys! I’m going to share about my children’s home for a sec here. For those who are new to my feed, 10 years ago my husband and I were backpacking in Nepal and minding our own, when a random lady asked us to help her and her husband to start a children’s home. While this type of thing can be a recipe for disaster (donating to random strangers who turn out to be scammers, for example), we have since built a solid foundation of trust and a beautiful home for what is now 13 children. It is a huge work in progress and a big part of my life and my heart. We do everything we can to comply with local Nepal government requests, and this year we have a doozie. A big whopper. We need to build another floor onto the home to separate the girls and boys rooms as they are currently on the same floor. We also want to make our girls room bigger because it’s at maximum capacity and there are only 5 girls, and we don’t want to feed into the horribly common stereotype that girls are less valuable than boys! We have one year to complete this and it’s going to cost $25,000 CAD. While a year sounds like a long time to raise all that money, with the difficulty of obtaining materials for construction and with the uncertainty of the monsoon season, it’s no time at all. Really, we need the funds by the end of the summer. Our core group of supporters is quite tiny still. So I carry this weight right now, along with my pile of other unknowns. I am learning to walk in peace because there is really no other way I can think to go about this. I’m going through older pieces to contributes to our fundraiser on August 8th, and if you are in Edmonton, you are most certainly invited. If you’d like more info about hour home, our story, our project, you can: follow @friendsofbandipur, or go to our Wordpress site: friendsofbandipur.wordpress.com. Thanks to everyone who has been encouraging over the years. Can I just say? It gets lonely sometimes. It’s not something people can really relate to on social media. I appreciate the opportunity to share this part of my life to those who are walking alongside or open to hearing more about it. Thanks guys!
“The cure for fomo” #wip . . . . . . . . . #happysummer #colors🎨 #arteveryday #artistmom #everydayartist #artisticadventure #acrylicart #abstractart #contemporarycanadianart #emergingartist #instafeels #instaartist #instaartistic #painting🎨 #creativejourney #metime #studiosesh #colorcolorcolor #yvrartist #yegartist #everydayartist #mybeautifulmess #happytuesday
I guess this is the day of 👌 temporary tats hey @julierohryeg? Life is better with my sweet lovely daughter. I like her just a little bit ❤️ . . . . . . . . #temporarytattoo #cutekids #mylove #mygirl #happysummer #summerlovin #artistmom #everydayartist
“The Earth has music for those who listen” -George Santayana . . . . . . . #abstractadventures #artistmom #studiotime #taketimeforart #timeforart #colors🎨 #colorcolorcolor #paintallthethings #canadianpainter #emergingartist #artforthesoul #paintingoftheday #picoftheday #flamingabstracts #tellastory #worthathousandwords #2018artwork #kunst #arte #soulstirring #artthatheals #contemporaryintuitiveart