C$1,000
Live Jurying Item #3
This painting is rooted in personal landscapes, drawn from Japan’s sea-carved cliffs and the quiet, inland waters of Lake Erie, and shaped by memory as much as place. It imagines a mythic shoreline where land, sky, and water converge, and where a solitary heron stands as a quiet spirit or sentinel at the edge of transformation.
Water is the painting’s true force: it flows across the image not only as subject, but as medium and metaphor. It reflects and distorts, reveals and conceals. Subtle, abstracted forms emerge only as the viewer draws closer, like thoughts or symbols drifting to the
| Technique: | Watercolor on Heavyweight Cotton Paper |
| Contents: | Bird, Outdoors, Sea, Water |
| Edition: | Original, one of a kind artwork |
| Framed Size: | 27in x 21in |
| Unframed Size: | 18in x 10in |
| Frame: | Framed |
| Weight: | 12.4lbs (estimated) |
Milena Guberinic
Ridgeway, Ontario
My work begins with memory and lived experience, filtered through shifting psychological narratives. I embrace the unpredictability of life, using chaos and form as raw material for compositions that reflect the hidden structures, both personal and societal, that shape who we are and how we see the world.
"I paint at the edge of chaos and form, searching for the hidden structures of the self."