Sitting Here in the Shadows Collage

Elsa Robinson Artist Bio Elsa Robinson is a Jamaican-Canadian multi-media artist and a passionate arts educator. In her work, she combines elements of her cultural heritages and in so doing, seeks to honour her two homes and all her Relations. She aims to speak across all cultures, engage conversation and effect a sense of oneness within the human community. Her decades-long devotion to artistic practice has imbued her work with vibrancy, versatility and an intuitive spiritual poignancy through which she transmits her deep love and care for humanity. Elsa first worked as a self-taught artist, and today she holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Art and Design from the University of Alberta and the degree of Master of Fine Arts from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. “ I have arrived at this place not through perfection but from forging through the fire of my own imperfections to find my own truth. My work is the gift from my heart that aims to remind us of what we already know is true; to show us the things we don’t always see; and to offer building blocks that we can use to create a better world for us now and for the future. If when you meet the art you identify a part of yourself, you find a space for contemplation, you feel strength, peace, joy and beauty, then the work has accomplished its role - teaching us that we are a part of the common cord of humanity. Let the art invite you to move beyond the illusion of separateness and realize that we are so much more the same than we are different.” Elsa Robinson