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ARTIST STATEMENT

 

Erins work is inspired from her deep connection to nature and wild spaces. Her landscape paintings are often from memory alone and invoke a dream like quality. Having lived in very diverse climates, including Arizona and the Gulf of Mexico, her work reflects a variety of these landscapes.

 

Primarily a self taught artist, Erin began to paint in 2009. It's only now she admits “I am circling back to the beginning, to see the steps I’ve missed along the way, learning the fine art of the stages of oil and the “rules” I am now able to intentionally create an atmosphere and mood that I want to convey.”  Each new canvas is an opening, an opportunity to express, to paint the things I love. Nature, trees, rivers and the land are her True North. She wonders.. “Can we learn to harness this planet's incredible resources and diversity while at the same time honoring her, our most important home?"

 

Erin has studied under various artists and attended workshops in France. She teaches workshops in Chelsea and enjoys sharing her love of art with others. “As children we all created and it is in each and every one of us to do so.”Erin lives in Chelsea, Quebec, surrounded by the forest she loves. She watches the changing seasons, welcomes them all and paints in her light filled studio looking out to the river.