Daniela Easter Fine Art

Daniela Easter

Brampton, ON - Canada

As artists we are often asked what inspires us. I've always found this a difficult question, as the answer is infinite. My range of subject matter has always been varied from realistic portraits to completely abstract acrylics. I get bored easily and will change subjects regularly. Not until recently however, did I discover that in fact my subject matter is secondary to what truly inspires me: texture.

Not the texture of the actual objects or of my subject matter but the texture of the mediums that I work in. I will become overwhelmed with the feel of pencil on toothy paper, of painting in acrylics with my hands, of a hard edge of pigment on feather-soft watercolor paper. I will be lost in my mediums often for weeks or months at a time working with only one. Then it is over and I am overwhelmed by another texture, carried off in whatever direction it takes me. I am inspired.

Please feel free to leave me comments -- like any artist I am always interested in views on my work.

Daniela Easter is a self-taught, freelance artist, artist educator, published illustrator and one of the founding members of the Beaux-Arts Brampton non-profit artists' co-operative. Daniela is the illustrator of Emma�s Jungle Adventure (published by Giant Beaver Publications) a children�s picture book for which she received the 2006 Arts Acclaim Award. (www.amazon.com)

Although creative all of her life, she started painting seriously in 1996, while living in South America. Shortly after returning to Canada, Daniela became a member of the Brampton Arts Council and through its H.A.C.E. initiative, became a founding member of Beaux-Arts Brampton Gallery, Studios and Workshop. She served on the Board of Directors as Membership Chairperson and continues to volunteer her time there as the Sponsorship Coordinator of the Juried Show Committee. In May of 2002, she opened her studio and her children's art program, Progressive Art for Progressive Kids which she continues to teach at the Beaux-Arts Brampton gallery. Her paintings and commissions are in private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Venezuela and Nigeria. For a complete list of showings and past showings please contact the artist.

AWARDS

2003 Honorable Mention Through the Eyes of the Artist Juried Show, Lakeshore Arts Gallery for the oil painting �Denise, Ghana�

2004 Juror�s Award The Human Animal Bond Juried Show, Beaux-Arts Brampton Gallery for oil painting �Day Old Friends�

2006 Arts Acclaim Award City Of Brampton, for the 12 original paintings used in 'Emma's Jungle Adventure', Giantbeaver Publications.

2006 Honorable Mention Fanzorelli�s Jazz It Up! Gala Show, for oil painting 'Smoke & Mirrors'

Links:
www.bramptonartclasses.com
www.beaux-artsbrampton.com
www.giantbeaver.com