Welcome to my studio

This is the little space in our house I call my own. The space where the creative process does its thing, the space where no mortals (mainly husband and children) may disturb the artist at work unless the house is about to burn down or one of the dogs has eaten the cat.

                               

I was born and grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1982, I moved to Canada with my family to finish High School and to pursue an education in the Visual Arts field. I received my Art & Design Diploma from Red Deer College in 1989 and Graphic Design Diploma from Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta in 1992.

From 1992 until 2000 I worked at various Ad Agencies and Art Departments in Alberta and here, at the West Coast, before retiring as Art Director to concentrate on raising my two beautiful girls and to pursue my passion for painting full-time. 

 

My first artists kit given to me at the tender age of 7, sealed my fate. I was hooked and knew from that day forward a career in the arts was in my future. My student textbooks can attest to that. Not a page was left without a doodle much to the dismay of my teachers (and parents). Suffering from a short attention span (I think they call it ADD these days), art was about the only subject that held my interest for more then 60 minutes. I just had to paint what I saw in real life or in my thoughts. It became an obsession. Even today I am having difficulty staying focused on one motif for too long. Looking at my pieces you might think I have a multiple personality disorder but the truth of the matter is staying too long on a dominant idea just makes me incredibly antsy. 
 
After motherhood called my career as an Art Director quits, my passion for painting was reborn and acrylics became my medium of choice. Having been raised in my native Germany around farms and vineyards, the majority of my youth was spend outdoors and my love for nature only grew with each passing year. I draw all of my inspiration from the natural environment around me and living here at the coast the creative well never runs dry. When I paint a landscape I don't aspire to simply copy the scene that presents itself in front of me. I hope to engage the viewer with colour and texture so that they can draw their own experiences or feelings from my paintings, may it be landscapes or abstracts. I love to jump from abstract to landscape. After I do a detailed landscape I need to change the pace and loosen up. Sometimes I combine elements from a landscape into an abstract. Either way I love the creative process - start with one stroke and let it lead the way into the unknown.

 

Thank you for visiting my site.

 

'When you think you are not done - you are done.' - wise words I live by from my old College Professor
“Joseph Reeder”.

 

 

 

       My Paintings at the "Eyes on BC Gallery" in Bowser, BC, June 2009.

My art on the Cover for the Qualicum Community Paper , June 2009 issue.

  Thank you to everybody who dropped by to say hello and to my valued customers.

 

 

 

My Paintings at"Studio Fifty Seven Twelve" in Langley, BC, November 2008.

Media Release for the November Show

 
Colours and Shapes
by
 
Silke Spodzieja
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   




To you and I art is shapes and colours assembled to form imagery like abstracts or landscapes. For Silke the shapes and colours of art are gifts. Gifts of understanding from Mother Nature. When you view Silke's beautiful paintings you will see trees or buildings and other objects but if you listen to her work you will perceive the gift Nature has bequeathed all of us. Harmony in all things living. A sense of being where you belong. The tranquility of being who you are, on the road to who you can be and the value in continuing the journey.
 

 

 

My Paintings in the "Eyes on BC Gallery" in Bowser, BC, June 2008.

 
 
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