Delores Orridge Naskrent

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 ...

Red River Community College and Brandon University