Origins Painting

Renay has made art her whole life but only began sharing her creations publicly in recent years. Her work has since won awards, and cultivated dedicated collectors across North America. Created using her deeply intuitive approach, a sense of energy and life emanate from her paintings, almost moving right before you on the canvas. Renay seeks to capture the beauty in the world as a moment in time, and invites you to immerse yourself into her world of colour and texture, and travel wherever your imagination may take you. Renay has been driven to create art her entire life - it was as necessary as breathing; helping her to feel whole and content. Drawing and painting were always part of her childhood growing up in Manitoba, Canada but her practical side did not allow her to pursue a career in art in her youth, so she followed her other passion - changing the world! Completing a degree in social work, Renay has worked in social services for three decades, moving with her husband to live across western Canada, raising two sons and many dogs along the way. Through it all, making art was a source of peace, meditation and rejuvenation, influenced by her varied geographic locations. Working in the painful sides of human existence - like child abuse, mental illness, addictions - requires the helper to give away little bits of themselves every day. For Renay, art helped her to refocus on the beauty and goodness in the world and provided a way to fill in those little holes in her heart and make herself whole again, so she could continue to give to others. Over the years, Renay created works in pencil, coloured pencil, watercolour, acrylic and most recently, fluid acrylics. Whenever possible,as a busy parent and professional, she poured herself out onto paper and canvas, in stolen moments when the house was quiet. Now, after years of making art in isolation, the children are grown and life permits more balance, so Renay is actively pursuing her passion for art and sharing it's healing and rejuvenating qualities with others. She invites you to leave the world behind as you are transported into your imagination by dramatic explosions of colour, texture and vibrancy in her artwork .