Miriam Traher
Denfield, ON
Miriam is an intuitive artist who creates mixed media abstracts. Her work is vibrant, expressive and full of visual texture, bringing life and joy to homes.
Message
The process involves layering paint, collage, paint and more paint, creating layers and layers with colours, shapes and designs that are scraped, sanded, scratched and dug into, repainted, revealing and leaving bits of the past, the history of each layer. A story emerges that blends this history with the final design, which is rich in texture. The beauty is in the discovery, the rich surface and the hidden bits that can only be seen by getting in close and exploring its secrets.
These pieces are about simplicity and minimalism, where marks and texture take centre stage. They are about creating, destructing and discovery. The beauty and structure of the work come from the unveiling and has been my parallel journey. Good art is not about skill or talent or they have it. It’s about the honesty of self shared with the canvas and shared with the world. It’s about courage and honesty. What lies beneath is where the greatness of who we are lives, and it’s worth a little digging, a little patience and lots of courage to look beneath the surface.
- Subject Matter: Abstract geometric
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