Mo Hamilton

As an artist, I obtain my inspiration from the external world around me, but reveal in my paintings the internal world of my imagination.  By reducing my images to their essential elements, I can bring simplicity, myth, and the primal, to my explorations of limits and boundaries with the intent of moving beyond them.  Recently, I have worked on a series of paintings that explore the soul’s journey.  I have followed my vision to places I had not intended to go allowing my intuition to guide me.  I have found power in words and incorporated them in my work; I have used collage and montage to go places I had not been before.  I use life story as the dark, rich compost to generate new creation and have in my most recent paintings worked more intuitively than ever before

Art Acadamie
Harold Street Art School
Camosun College Fine Arts
Okanangan Summer School of the Arts
Island Mountain Arts
Metchosin Internationial Summer School of the Arts

Mo Hamilton’s Curriculum Vitae



Education:

1989 Art Acadamie, VictoriaC., Color Theory and Painting
1992 Harold Street Art School, VictoriaC., Lino-Printing Intensive
1993 Camosun College, Victoria, B.C.
1994 Okanagan Summer School of the Arts, PentictonC, Painting
2007 Island Mountain Art, The Toni Only Artist’s Project 9-day mentorship project
2014 Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts.
2015 Seven Day Artlife workshop with Nicholas
Wilton
2016 Island Mountain Arts, Toni Only Artists Project 9-day mentorship


Grants:

2001 Kootenay Arts Council Grant, Castlegar B.C
Commissions:

1999 Kootenay Gallery of Art and Science (8’x30’ mural) Castlegar, B.C.
1996 Bountiful Books (8’x10’ mural) Castlegar, B.C.


Solo Exhibitions

1992 Tudor Rose Tea Room, VictoriaC
1994 The Parsonage, VictoriaC.
2007 Resonance, Rustad Gallery, Prince George, B.C.
2010 Studio 2880, Prince George, B.C.
2011 Still Living North, Terrace Art Gallery, Terrace, B.C.
2016 Repose and Awakening, Stationhouse Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
2016 Repose and Awakening, Smithers Art Gallery, Smithers, BC


Group Exhibitions

1992 Imprints, Harold Street Art World, VictoriaC.
1996 Art Walk, Castlegar, B.C.
1997 Art Walk...