Grateful for the opportunity to talk about my art in the latest VISA Newsletter! Although I have not had the time for courses since Advanced Drawing, I have taken workshops which are a rewarding way to keep learning while working full time. Follow this link to the newsletter in which it is featured with anContinueContinue reading “featured”
Category Archives: artworks
poster
I am honoured to have my work in an exhibition at the Slide Room Gallery, 2549 Quadra str, Victoria BC, Canada; opening on February 16th at 6pm. Learn more via the Facebook event page or Slide Room Gallery website.
a poem and a painting
At various stages of my painting’s evolution, different genres have suggested themselves- landscape, figurative, abstract, floral- and approaching resolution the painting, rather than having become one or the other, remains “all of the above.” The other day on Facebook I came upon an excerpt of a TS Eliot poem and as I read, I feltContinueContinue reading “a poem and a painting”
lo, how a rose
How touched I am this Christmas to be reminded of the beautiful German hymn, Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen. I am in the midst of my new work- roses that speak of the presence of love in the midst of darkness. The words of this song speak of how love remains tender and vulnerable evenContinueContinue reading “lo, how a rose”
a repetition of roses
I have taken as reference my own photos of roses and am hand transposing the shapes and contours onto large paper and working with ink. I have a love of repetition- perhaps it was having visited fabric stores with my mother and gazing at myriads of patterns. I look at what is emerging in theseContinueContinue reading “a repetition of roses”
Cornelia van Voorst 