We were captivated at first sight of the colorful world of
Rosie Schinners! Color incorporated with vintage imagery invoking and
celebrating energy are center stage in her amazing collages.
Rosie Schinners is a
collage artist who resides on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. She
holds a Bachelor of Art from the University of Guelph as well as a Bachelor of
Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Although focusing on
painting during her formal art education, returning to collage art as a primary
medium was a natural transition. From a young age, she has been cutting,
pasting, and leaving trails of scrap paper around the house.
Working primarily with vintage print material, Schinners
combines hand-cut collage with vibrant splashes of color to bring new life to
old images. She looks to explore and express fleeting moments of magic,
alchemy, and the shifting nature of the internal landscape. One particular
definition of alchemy is ‘a seemingly magical process of transformation,
creation, or combination’. This alchemy can also be thought of as the invisible
energies that surround us, things we cannot see which can make us feel
connected or disconnected to the people and places we interact with. Schinners’
attempts to make that unseen energy visible, whether as magical blooms of
flowers, crowds of connected people, or bursts of raw color. Recent work has
celebrated and reflected traditions of folk magic and brujeria, as a nod to the
empowered ‘wise woman’ archetype.
See
more of her amazing colorful work at www.rosieschinners.ca
on Facebook www.facebook.com/rosieschinnersart
and on Instagram @rosieschinners
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