Woven Views
by Dana Cromie
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am fascinated with representing what is familiar to me, whether a plant, a landscape, or a concept. I am most attracted to light, colour, and rhythm. I am intrigued with performance, particularly musical composition, and how the process of narrative through time differs from the static expression of two-dimensional work. I have a deep interest in nature and am concerned with man's impact on the environment. My art is an extension of my life interests.
I have been influenced by all manner of artists, and these influences do change through the years. As a young artist, I was greatly attracted to the work of Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keefe, later Chuck Close, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Sheeler, David Hockney, Dan Flavin, and more recently Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin. Like most artists, I spend a lot of time in museums when I travel, exploring what art speaks to me and trying to understand why.
As an artist, I am fascinated with representing what is familiar to me, whether a plant, a landscape, or a concept. I am most attracted to light, colour, and rhythm. I am intrigued with performance, particularly musical composition, and how the process of narrative through time differs from the static expression of two-dimensional work. I have a deep interest in nature and am concerned with man's impact on the environment. My art is an extension of my life interests.
I have been influenced by all manner of artists, and these influences do change through the years. As a young artist, I was greatly attracted to the work of Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keefe, later Chuck Close, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Sheeler, David Hockney, Dan Flavin, and more recently Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin. Like most artists, I spend a lot of time in museums when I travel, exploring what art speaks to me and trying to understand why.
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Biography
Dana is a lifelong artist and gardener living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
2012-2014: ‘Artist in Residence’ at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden.
2010-2015: He has studied botanical illustration at UBC Botanical Garden with Alison Watt, at Emily Carr University with Elizabeth Mancini, and privately with Elizabeth Mancini and Mary Comber Miles.
1999-2001: Dana wrote and photographed 'In My Garden' for Vancouver Lifestyle Magazine.
1970 - 1976: Dana studied Visual Art at Capilano College with Frank Molnar and Stephen Leskard, Institute Allende de San Miguel with Zois Shuttie, Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr University of Art and Design) with Ron Stonier, and privately with Peter Aspell.
Exhibits
2020 - ‘Take Flight’ fundraising event for Eastside Culture Crawl - “Urban Weave”
2019 - 'Eastside Culture Crawl'
2019 - ‘Art Vancouver’ “iPad Drawings”, solo exhibit for Pendulum Gallery
2018 - 'Eastside Culture Crawl'
2018 - 'Spaces, Places and Traces: Eastside Culture Crawl Juried Show' - "Snow Day"
2018 - 'Quilt Canada - National Juried Show' - "Transfer of Resources - North Shore, Vancouver"
2018 - present - 'First Saturdays' Open Studio
2015 - 'Arts at Darts' - invitational art fair at Darts Hill Garden in Surrey, BC.
2014 - 'Growing in Sight' - five pieces in a curated exhibit at Emily Carr University.
2014 - 'remnants - a visual survey of human progress' - a three month solo exhibit at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at University of British Columbia featuring five large-scale collages made with 1,500 letterpress prints of twenty-six original drawings, detailing the fragmentation of nature and subsequent loss of biodiversity caused by human development.
2012 - 2014 - 'Artist in Residence' - University of British Columbia Botanical Garden.
Biography
Dana is a lifelong artist and gardener living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
2012-2014: ‘Artist in Residence’ at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden.
2010-2015: He has studied botanical illustration at UBC Botanical Garden with Alison Watt, at Emily Carr University with Elizabeth Mancini, and privately with Elizabeth Mancini and Mary Comber Miles.
1999-2001: Dana wrote and photographed 'In My Garden' for Vancouver Lifestyle Magazine.
1970 - 1976: Dana studied Visual Art at Capilano College with Frank Molnar and Stephen Leskard, Institute Allende de San Miguel with Zois Shuttie, Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr University of Art and Design) with Ron Stonier, and privately with Peter Aspell.
Exhibits
2020 - ‘Take Flight’ fundraising event for Eastside Culture Crawl - “Urban Weave”
2019 - 'Eastside Culture Crawl'
2019 - ‘Art Vancouver’ “iPad Drawings”, solo exhibit for Pendulum Gallery
2018 - 'Eastside Culture Crawl'
2018 - 'Spaces, Places and Traces: Eastside Culture Crawl Juried Show' - "Snow Day"
2018 - 'Quilt Canada - National Juried Show' - "Transfer of Resources - North Shore, Vancouver"
2018 - present - 'First Saturdays' Open Studio
2015 - 'Arts at Darts' - invitational art fair at Darts Hill Garden in Surrey, BC.
2014 - 'Growing in Sight' - five pieces in a curated exhibit at Emily Carr University.
2014 - 'remnants - a visual survey of human progress' - a three month solo exhibit at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at University of British Columbia featuring five large-scale collages made with 1,500 letterpress prints of twenty-six original drawings, detailing the fragmentation of nature and subsequent loss of biodiversity caused by human development.
2012 - 2014 - 'Artist in Residence' - University of British Columbia Botanical Garden.
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