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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 grows out of memory and lived experience. I let the unpredictable side of life (its disruptions, coincidences, and contradictions) become part of the painting process. By balancing chaos with form, I look for the underlying patterns that run through both my own story and the world we share.
"I paint in the space between chaos and structure, trying to uncover what lies beneath the surface of the self."