Biography Trina Wilko lives and works in Montreal Quebec. She is a professor in the Early Elementary Childhood Education Department at Concordia University and a Faculty Supervisor for student teachers. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia and a Master’s of Education in the Art’s from McGill University. Artistic pursuits are woven into the fabric of her life through a career as a graphic designer for a chain of fashion stores, as a ceramic artist, painter and teacher. She wrote and published a children’s book, ‘The Lively Lines of Linus’ as a teaching tool for the classroom teacher. The playful story connects fundamental art vocabulary with the art making process, thereby preparing children for conversation about art. Artist Statement I am presently involved in the process of mixed media collage on paper to convey a sense simplicity and purity; a visual experience meant to trigger feelings, a mood, an energy, or perhaps a memory. I begin without any reference to a subject. The artistic value is in the arrangement of hand made, fibre-rich ‘Washi’ paper, personally coloured papers, and unifying/expressive mark-making. I am playing with ‘The Language of Art’ by organizing and manipulating pictorial space in the arrangement of the essential ‘Formalist’ elements of art (line, shape, colour, texture). I want to be surprised by lines and implied lines created by the layering and meeting of solid and textured shapes. The properties of my work are meant to be perceived through the senses. |