Ink on paper, drawing from the mind's eye.
My work is influenced by memory. The piece of an image or story we can recall while other information is lost.
Gestural ink portraits.
The Process
Field notes: Getting back in the grove. Not sure where I am going and not even going to question it.
Mark making tools, cedar sticks, oil on canvas. Letting my mind wander with no desire to produce a result. Exploring the feeling and discovery lend itself to altered thoughts.
Art Makes Us Happy
AML: How does art make you happy, Nadina? Creating and producing art, or observing it?
Me: Anne Marie that is a good question. I don't know the biochemical reasons but I do know the process of creating does make me feel better, my nervous system doesn't know if the work is good or bad. When I view art and make a connection to it I absolutly feel happy. Art elevates, in the creating and the viewing. When I feel transported I know I am in the right place.
Playing with rust, yes iron. The human nervous system and some Icarus reference. Good art, bad art either way my nervous system does not know the difference. I will sleep well tonight.
Art Makes Us Happy
According to an investigation by French Beaux Arts Magazine (July 2013 Issue)
"art acts like a vitamin on our brain, making us noticeable happier."
Greta's Garden 24 x24 inches Art lives in you, don't overthink
table design and photo credit S.Antonucci
Art Matters 4 easy steps to inner peace and getting shit done
Dear Friends and Art lovers,
It is time for me to take my own crabby, bossy, ranting advice and apply the Art Matters steps. I am not sure how it has come to this, but, I am having an unusually jittery start to creating new work this winter. Last year, at this time, I had rented a larger studio with more space and found it inspiring to not be surrounded by piles of older work nor all the other distractions of working from home. Time seems to shift when you are able to focus. I am trying so hard to focus. So, no more digressing,no more creative procrastination. My studio is organized to within an inch of it's life, pencils are sharpened and the coffee is on. 1..2..3.. GO!
Double Heart
Double Heart ~Archival Print
DOUBLE HEART 2015
Double Heart is 1 of 4 from The Heart Series, encaustic on panel.
Sometimes I will use images that are not my own. Not to claim them as mine more to connect with a collective unconscious. Old anatomy books are a source of inspiration. They are distant, somehow removed from the actual subject they are meant to represent. I recycle stamps from my father's collection and often re-use his written Scientific research reports or just as likely pages torn from an 1800s Tennyson book of poetry given to me by a grade school friend, stolen from her parent's bookshelf . So now you know. Lost and found .
Archival Print
8.5 x 11 inches
6 x 6 inches, image size
Full colour, archival inks printed on Fine Art Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper
signed
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Heart Series Encaustic Painting
Sometime I will use images that are not my own. Not to claim them as mine more to connect with a collective unconscious. Old Anatomy books are a source of inspiration. They are distant, somehow removed from the actual subject they are meant to represent. I recycle stamps from my father's collection and often re-use his written Scientific research reports or just as likely pages torn from an 1800s Tennyson book of poetry given to me by a grade school friend, stollen from her parents bookshelf . So now you know. Lost and found .
Encaustic painting, also known as how wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which coloured pigments may or may not be added. I use the hot wax technique to encase the images and preserve them. Prints Available
Most asked question: What drives you to create? Me: to be free
Question: Why do you create?
Answer : To feel free.
I paint from the inside out, from my memory and with my intuition. I am not striving for correct perspective or painting for pure commerce. I am compelled to create and express. I have to trust and be brave. My drive is to be free, to feel free and share that expression with others.
Nadina
Thank you from all of us | Power of Paint 2015
Many, many people to thank… ZOOM, Jardin de Flores Nursery and Farm, Roberts Creek , Rent it, Sunshine Coast Botanical Gardens, ..thank you Sue, Sheer Bliss, Steven you always look after us so well, Coast Reporter, and Jan DeGrass, as always you write so well and the District of Sechelt .. special thanks to you Perry and the spouses that help set up those heavy heavy walls Nick Vermeulen and Mike. Mike Tandy and Jimmy Gregor…the music was amazing and thanks also Mike for the warm welcome. The Volunteers… our dynamic duoKasia Krolikowska, and Lore Schmidts..we absolutely love you….Thank you Charly Mithrush, Judy McLarty, Jeanette MacDonald, Jen Drysdale, Karen Tosczak, Diane Penonzek, Pat Opp, Barbara Moustafa, Suzy Naylor and wonderful Marlene Lowden …your presence was invaluable…you made the evening fun and run smooth for us. Last but definitely not least Ginny Vail…thanks for organizing us and adding all your wonderful touches along with your easy, fun personality. We love you to bits
Written by Carol LaFave , on behalf of Eleven Equal Artists;
Morley Baker, Josef Fritz Braham, Todd Clark, Elizabeth Evans, Greta Grunow Guzek,
Carol Lafave, Kim LaFave, Ian MacLeod, Cindy Riach, Nadina Tandy, Marleen Vermeulen
POWER OF PAINT | ART EXHIBITION
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Disclaimer : all the opinions expressed are my own
Lets blow it up, just do your art and shut the fuck up. I am offering you 4 easy solutions to follow for inner creative peace. You can add to the list in the comments, hell lets coauthor an e-book.
#1 : Create. Create anything. Just start. Don't judge it or think you are amazing. Just pick up a pencil show up to life drawing class. Shut up and draw.
#2 STOP TALKING. Talking about shit, no more conversations about sensitive digestion or your ingrown toe nail that has haunted you and stopped you from being a fully realized super star. Yawn, are you boring yourself?
#3 DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS THINK ABOUT YOU OR YOUR ART. Don't listen to what you think about others and their art.
#4 BE IN THE PRESENT. Just 'be' in the present moment of the creative process and all the other crap will shrink. The perfect weather or the perfect space. You make things happen when you create art with whatever tool you have, wherever you are. It lives in you, don't over think it.
The cranky artist motivational series has a gift for you! A printable version of ART MATTERS 4 steps to inner creative peace and getting shit done. With love Nadina