
SKG

Soul Key
Galleries & Studios
- Fine Art - Ceramics - Installation - Digital Art - Photography -
Comox Valley, British Columbia
Canada


Tonja Bjermeland
Nature is Art & Art is Life
I receive my inspiration from the vast creations of nature. The ocean, rivers and trees, the many moods of the sky, horses are things as a human and an artist I couldn’t live without. As a young child growing up on the northern tip of Vancouver Island, I have been accustomed to drawing on these natural elements for inspiration. Having lived my life with the benefit of having this rugged, environmental aesthetic as my developing environment I feel I have been shaped by these things. Over time I have observed that my work has taken on a specific quality. I notice a soft expressive style that to me reflects the wild and organic expression of creation itself. Like in nature, although wild a peaceful feeling is evoked.
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To look and to see though through the eyes, are respectively very distant experiences, a very important grain of knowledge I have adopted. Having an active lifestyle allows me to go out and see the vast natural aspects of our Island. Immersing myself in nature and absorbing the surroundings taking in the details allows me to really see what I am experiencing, instead of
just passively coexisting.



I have experienced many places from which I draw inspiration. Even through all of these journeys, I am still content to call this Island my home for it is here that I am inspired most.

Art Is Life, I am inspired from life to create art, and inspired by art in the ways I live my life.