Angela Fehr
Dawson Creek, British Columbia
Abstract landscapes in watercolour, based in northern British Columbia, Canada
MessagePerhaps resilience is the only option for a northern artist. Born in the Peace River region, Angela Fehr returned there to settle after spending her childhood in Ontario, the USA and Papua New Guinea. A childhood love of art led her to take her first watercolour classes at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery, and isolation as a stay at home mum led her to reach out to communicate to other artists via YouTube and teaching watercolour lessons online.
That same resilience is what helped Angela realize that the key to creating her most authentic work came, not from flawless technique, but in giving herself permission to fall in love with the painting process, regardless of outcome. Watercolour has become Angela’s way of interpreting her world, expressing her connection to the beauty of the Peace Region, and the lessons she has learned through watercolour have filled her life with meaning and significance.
Angela lives with her husband and three teenagers on an acreage overlooking Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Her art and classes can be found online at AngelaFehr.com.
Statement
What is beauty? To witness beauty is to be present, released from our preoccupation with past and future as beauty calls us to “Look!” As a witness to beauty, I feel an inherent call to respond and invite others to step outside of time and participate in the experience of being fully present and alive to beauty, hope and possibility.
Beauty resists conformity. What is beautiful once becomes stale and tired, even repellent as it shifts from immediacy to mundanity. To seek beauty is to forever desire something new, to shift perspectives and see deeper than what is expected and known.
Nature informs both my subject and my process. As a watercolorist I marry water with color to create my work, understanding that I am working alongside a medium that must be allowed to flow, to evolve and my responses are as immediate as the flick of a brush. Any original intention must be released if the painting turns in a new direction, and this brings me into a relationship and intimacy with my chosen medium that is dangerously vulnerable and continually new.
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