Sara Robichaud’s exploration is shaped and informed by objects of personal and symbolic significance in her life
Nanaimo artist Sara Robichaud’s latest collection, Double Life, is a series of large-scale acrylic paintings that explore the various roles in her life. The birth of her daughter, Amelie, set in motion what seems to be a creative meditation about life, from birth to death, and the roles a mother—who also happens to be an artist—inhabits.
Intensely personal and symbolic objects inform the wider work in Double Life—including the scales, surfaces, and colours Sara uses [opens to PDF]. “Like the personal objects that I use as inspiration, the paintings themselves become reminders of certain phases of my life—reflecting what was happening and how I felt,” she says. (more…)
Wednesday October 10, 2012
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