Vanessa Stark is our featured artist this month. If you've ever met Vanessa, you will quickly realize she's multifaceted and amazing at everything she does. Whether she's on a board, a bike, slack line, in the kitchen, chasing her 1 year old toddler or in front of a canvas she excels.
She stems from a creative and artistic family out of Vancouver. Drawing and other forms of art were always a very natural inclination for 'Nes', as her first art show appearance was at age eight! This current show seems to be influenced by the little people in her life. Beautiful and bright.
Vanessa is very active in our local Pemberton and Whistler Art communities and can be found all Summer long at the
Whistler Farmer's Market. Her work and cards are strewn about the shops of Whistler and Pemberton or can be found online through her website:
www.vanessastarkart.com. She will participate in this year's
Whistler ArtWalk which holds its 'not to be missed' opening party on July 5th.
ARTIST STATEMENT: Life is the inspiration.
Drawing has always been a part of who I am. It has been a safe place I can go. I would not be a whole person without it… the same way as I am not whole without snowboarding.
My paintings are without artificial flavors, pesticides or otherwise unnatural influences. I am somewhat in control while painting but mostly they leak from the subconscious. I paint whatever appears when I time warp to that place of lucid creation. The land of daydreams, sunbeams, snowflakes, rainbows, wave breaks and other such fun things that live in the world between reality and dreams.
My favorite questions in school were the ones when the teacher said “there are no wrong answers” Well I actually did get one of those wrong once…but that’s my favorite idea… no wrong answer, no wrong art. It’s the freedom to be yourself and do what you want, express yourself the way you see things.
I love the Mountains and the Ocean. They make me happy. I believe in having fun, being kind and surrounding yourself with things that make you smile. My paintings are brief glimpses at a reflection of tiny pieces of who I am, what I believe in and how I live.
