Bold Strokes
Meet the artists
B Jane Cooper
Artist Statement
High quality acrylic paint is my choice of medium to express my innermost feelings and emotions. I get lost while creating my paintings in a world of texture and layering until intuitively images emerge. Painting is the utmost joy for me – freedom from the everyday pressures and expectations allowing myself to be wild and free.
This is a journey and an exciting one! I love spending many hours in my studio “playing” with paint, pencil, charcoal, markers and an electric sander. I hope you can feel the creativity in my pieces which may bring a moment of joy into your day.
Sahar Banisolton
Artist Statement
Living in a world with a climate crisis, I would like to bring awareness towards the history, current problems, and future challenges related to water. This series of my artwork is called the “We” series and shows how a human being, we, depleting natural resources. The word “We” is hidden in each piece of this art series and implicitly communicates the clear role of human beings in a paradoxical way.
We are all part of one world, one color, and share the same roots. Sadly, human activities impacted our natural resources. For example, climate change will result in changing design flows in fish passages and will impact juvenile salmon. Sea level rise will impact our shorelines, result in scour near our bridges and force the population to move to elevated houses. Hotter days will change the symphony of living birds and plants. The shadow of human beings on our environment cannot be denied.
The Art
