Color of My Dream Painting

The colours of nature and my intuition guide my art: my most generous muses are light and sunshine. My work ranges through multiple media: my confidence with acrylic paint, ink, marker, collage, pencil, pastels, pencil crayon, watercolour, and digital editing provide many ready paths of self-expression. My creative process can be seen as guided by nature, too. Often, I don’t plan how a piece will ultimately look, but work in many layers, creating new relationships and deepening the complexity, intricacy and subtlety of the images over time. Sometimes, I will put a piece away and come back to it and see the possibilities previously hidden. I accept the gifts that time, as well as nature, reveal to me. I am filled with awe and draw motivation from the work of other artists; I believe that nature and art are about abundance. There is always more beauty to breathe in and breathe out. Combining visual images and wonderful words to communicate has been a lifelong passion: as a child I read voraciously and loved to write and illustrate books. I also created my own drawings and patterns to sew. These influences are still present in the patterns of my current work. I was an art educator for 30 years. My own education took place at Red River College and Brandon University in manitoba, Canada, and has been honed through decades of graphic design experience and my work as a professional artist. I am conscious that during tough times art has been therapeutic for me, and it is my desire that the art I create comforts and uplifts others in a similar way. Background: My name is Delores Orridge Naskrent. I was born and raised in southern Manitoba, Canada. After graduation from trade school, where I studied advertising art, I moved to Winnipeg to pursue a career in graphic art. I continued my educational training and am fully certified. Eventually I was presented the opportunity to teach back in my home town of Brandon, and taught art, theatrical design and advertising art for almost 30 years.