Liberation Painting

Toni Weber grew up on the coast of southern California. Her earliest influences include being inspired by her mother’s creativity which she credits for setting in motion a strong sense of curiosity and an intense desire to create. Her education always included forms of artistic expression such as: dance, pottery, jewelry making, fiber arts, writing and photography. As an adult she pursued a focused education in photography, which led to becoming a professional photographer for over a decade. Later in life when she began painting, her background in photography transferred to the canvas, having many principles in common. To further her skills in painting, she recently graduated from the Milan Institute Mastery Program. With a deep connection to the natural world and internal themes of grace and overcoming, Toni’s art is embedded with messages of hope and joy. She expresses these thoughts with colorful, expressive brush strokes and organic marks- dancing the line between the recognizable and the imaginative. Staying intuitive is essential in Toni’s process, valuing freedom over rules, experimentation over convention. Toni says, “As an artist I never want to feel confined by someone’s expectations of how I should paint. Just as I never want to tell the viewer what to think or feel when they engage with my art. Both are extremely personal.” When she isn’t painting you may find her pulling the grand-kids in a wagon around the neighborhood or spontaneously dancing to 70’s classics with her son. Toni paints from her home studio on the central coast of California where she lives with her husband and youngest son.