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KIRSTEN BRAND VICTORIA, British Columbia E-mail: kirstenbrand@shaw.ca |
I am a Victoria born painter and have been studying and producing art since early childhood. I see nature as a harmony of energies that must work together.. The beauty, profusion and growth rhythms of flowers and plant life create a visual music for me. I use bold colour and floral and plant forms to convey the vitality, flow, and movement of the life force. The human figure appears in some of my work to symbolize our infinite love and fascination for, as well as dependence upon botanical life. In my current work I take real pieces of nature in the form of dried, pressed, plants from their outdoor landscapes where a chaos of texture, colour, and pattern reign supreme, and place them in an abstract setting of painterly texture, colour, and pattern.
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