Other Artists

Community Art Collective with artists:

Nikki Gour, Mixed Media

Joan Shearer, Painting

Neil Liskey, Ceramics

Ron Robbinson, Mixed Media

David Handford, Drawing & Painting

Joan Shearer, Painter

Joanshearer.com

Joan Shearer is a semi-representational, abstract artist. From her mind’s eye she paints scenes using the harmonious organization of colour, tone, shade and line to produce movement in her work. Joan’s main focus is using colour to physically direct our eyes while emotionally, intellectually and somewhat humorously telling a story. Joan communicates two different levels of pictorial appreciation. The subject, the obvious reward at first glance, is simple by nature while her use of line and colour invents a secondary, more emotive, visual experience.

A long time student of Canadian abstract artist, Brodie Shearer (1911-2004), Joan Shearer has been painting for 20 years. The structure of her work is in keeping with Brodie Shearer’s philosophy that the work of the modern artist reflects the vitality of life “…through implications of growth, change and permanence and of harmony, balance and rhythm, all of which are features of Nature’s laws.” (Making Sense of Modern Art, Brodie Shearer, 1987). Having completed a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Joan incorporates lateral thinking, altered perceptions and a sceptical worldview into her artwork so as to reinterpret reality.

Joan Shearer’s ideas are whimsical, her colours evocative and her painting, a passion.

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Ms. Kristen E Carleton, BFA

Painter

My work shows a timely dedication to the development and transformation of organic form. The interest here lies in the random reputation of tiny fractal fluxes. It thrives within the absence of time, when the clock is still ticking. Each piece I complete has direct ties to the piece before it and leads to the next piece, (call it metamorphasis or absraction if you will) wether it be connected by a theme or stylized continuation or break, humor and/or imaginative absurdity. A recurring theme I face is that of 'connection' - What it means to be connected to the people I face, the world at large and mostly the intangible sources of life, the unseen, the unknown, and the responsibilities that accompany a higher knowledge of self. There is nothing to be understood of the work by the viewer, except that of open interpretation. Where the pieces may not represent meaning, they act as a catalyst for meaning to be exercised. In my practice I find home, I find connection to myself, respectively enabling my connection to yours.

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Ms. Lina Oprea

Creative Director of Savage Grace designs

Currently I continue working on expanding my knowledge base, learning new techniques and getting myself out there so that hopefully one day I will be able to make this my full time passion. At the begining my affairs was glass beads and mostly swarovski crystals. My technique was usually simple stringing combinations. In the last few years that has expandeed to include semi and precious stones in every shape, color and texture. They are all so beautiful I cannot discrminate against any of them although I have my favorites. This last year I have shifted my designs again, and started to work with vintage beads, chain and wire making techniques to make wire wrapped rings, earings and modern type necklaces with single pendants mimicking organic shapes and things out of nature. Lately I have set my sights on other metal working techniques and am interested in learning enamaling, oxidizing, electroplating organic materials and a host of others.

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