Bio / Artist Statement

Adriane Giberson was born in Montreal, QC and circuitously made her way to Western Canada via California, picking up a new last name in the process (the old one was too hard to spell anyway). "I've been making art for as long as I can remember. It's been a constant companion throughout my life. In fact, I really think my mental health depends on it," she says, "It's been the window to my Self. I've picked up useful tools along the way that I can share with others, too." Though not yet certified, Adriane has trained as a Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach with Jill Badonsky and is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, having trained with Seena Frost.

After a short stint in a college level fine art program, Adriane ditched school in favour of love. "I moved out from my parents' home to be with my first love, and school became an afterthought. Art was put on the back-burner for a long while, but I wrote a fair amount during that time, though I ended up tossing most of it in a fit of 'oh how lame was I?' moment in my mid-twenties." She rediscovered art again in her mid-thirties while living in California, taking many artist workshops and expanding her technique to include collage, bookmaking, printmaking, watersoluble media (watercolour, acrylic, gouache, graphite, etc.), pastel, dimensional works (polymer clay and fabric), on a wide array of substrates (inside journals and artist books, altered books, various papers, canvas, art board, masonite, wood), even dabbling in jewelry making and glass fusing. "Picking a favorite medium is like asking someone to pick a favourite child. They all have wonderful qualities about them, and it just depends on which one best suits the translation process."

"Capturing inspiration is like chasing and catching fireflies in a jar," she says. "They are brilliant sparks of light that pop into my mind, lighting up the night that's in there with something that buzzes until it is captured onto something." Whether that transformation of spark to piece occurs on the canvas or with words on a computer screen, Adriane's stories somehow make it into the world.

She is currently collaborating on a picture book tentatively entitled "Darika" with Markus Radtke, who is illustrating the story, and is also working on writing a children's book, whose working title is "The Story Wrangler." In the studio, she is working on a painting collection titled "Transformational Journeys," acrylic on canvas pieces, some of which are pictured in the gallery section. She shares her creative process on her blog. This website will be undergoing some major renovation, so stay tuned and check in often for new content.

 

 

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