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, whether land art, photography or poetry. The process carries more significance for me than the end result.
My various art practices are specific and personal outer expressions of how I see and experience the world within myself. This is how I integrate the stories being shared with me from the world around me.
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.
We have all become increasingly aware of the deficits and damage incurred through the disconnect between humans and nature. Humans have been given so many gifts that nurture us to thrive, grow, imagine, and evolve in tandem with the abundant generosity and insightful wisdom of our natural world. I seek out this intersection of life and possibility, of inclusivity and independence, of ephemerality and legacy. With all that she offers us, Mother Earth deserves the community of humans to act in reciprocity. 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. She began painting murals and then dedicated herself to painting canvases, paper art and creating experimental sculptures before returning to study and receive a master’s degree in expressive arts therapy.
She started 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 unique creative voice. Taking groups and individuals into nature as part of her studio practice, she was able to share her love and respect for nature with explorations and creative challenges present within Mother Nature’s abundance and healing wisdom.
When it was time, she stepped away from life as an arts based healer and returned to her own arts practice, co creating with nature full time and sharing her work with people throughout the world.
