ARTIST STATEMENT

​

Through a distinct technique, sky, mountains, lakes and fields evoke both flatness and depth. I use both a brush and knife, partly to diminish, and partly to layer the paint itself, balancing strong compositional horizontals with rhythmic vertical gestures. I choose subdued colours, that suit the calm stillness of my process, but only to the extent of their disruption by vibrant insertions of geometric lines. This creates a visual conversation that speaks to the deeper intervals of time and experience I am drawing on:

“It’s just me, the paint and canvas; a quiet and intimate interaction allowing me to be true to the act of painting.”

Although the literal subject of my work is my surroundings, while painting, I am looking at my own internal landscape, sourcing its connection to our shared human spirit. I seek the same outside myself as within, layering attention in pass after pass over each subject. This layering depicts and then reduces, simplifying and even erasing elements towards their essence. There is abandon in my willingness to obscure the original visual inspiration, though ultimately arriving at a mid-point between my outer and inner environment, revealing a care for both. I hope my paintings give us pause. A moment with both the world and our inner selves; to visit a journey of refined seeing into both.

​

BIO

Gina Sarro is a painter living in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her acrylic landscapes on panel reflect her journey through homes in Saskatchewan, where she was born; Alberta, where she completed an Economics degree at the University of Calgary, and studied painting at Alberta College of Art and Design; and British Columbia, where she attended Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Gina has self-promoted her work for most of the last 10 years, but now her work can be seen at the Space Gallery in Vancouver and at The Christopher Hill Gallery in St Helena, California.

​

EDUCATION

Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2010
Alberta College of Art, 1989
University of Calgary, 1987 (B.A. Economics & Political Science)

​

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Blackburn Young Office Solutions, Vancouver
Specialist Referral Clinic, Vancouver
Fortius Sport and Health, Burnaby
Herman Miller Workplace Resource, Vancouver
Vancouver General Hospital, Neurology Dept.
RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Vancouver
Cawley Curran Wong & Associates, Vancouver
Collette Parsons Trial Lawyers, Vancouver