Andrea Goodman

Born in Toronto Ontario, I'm now fortunate enough to live on the west coast of Canada, and I'm completely in love with the natural environment around me. While my art is seldom a literal representation of my landscape, the natural world I walk through informs the textures, lines and colours in my work.
I'm presenting a series of animal silhouette images, of Canadian wildlife, initially the series was mostly west coast creatures, including Elk, Bear, Orca, Starfish, Deer, Bison, Beaver, Salmon and Cod. As the series grew, it expanded to include many types of creatures economically or culturally important in the history of Canada and colonial impact. The series includes a variety of medium, the 'Dropcloth' series uses backgrounds created using the paper that covers my work surface when I paint, and the 'Maps' series uses old/recycled paper maps. The Pen and Ink series explores using black lines to define positive and negative space of animal silhouettes, by using lines represent textures of plants and also to outline the shapes of animals.
The animal silhouette series has expanded to include trees and clouds, so the creatures have an environment.

I've been an omnivorous consumer of education, with a degree in Psychology and a certificate in welding, amongst other random qualifications (a racing license, a meditation teaching certificate and most recently a certification as a hospice volunteer) and I even went to an art school; completing a Silversmithing program at OCA before it was OCAD (Toronto Ontario Canada).
I've been creating art all my life, I still have a box of crayons, and I may or may not have paint smears on my face and/or clothing. Most of what I've learned about art has been from doing it, experimenting and combining media and techniques, exploring lines and colour and the division of space.

Kitties and Cream, the cat cafe on Vancouver Island
December 2020 'Feature Artist'