Program Designer and Director
daniela-easter.artistwebsites.comDaniela Easter is a self-taught, freelance artist, published illustrator and one of the founding members of the Beaux-Arts Brampton non-profit artists' co-operative. The Progressive Art for Progressive Kids program was designed from scratch by the artist to teach “little artists”. She has been teaching the Progressive Kids program since 2002.
Although creative all of her life, she started painting seriously in 1996, while living in South America. Shortly after returning to Canada, Daniela became a member of the Brampton Arts Council and through its H.A.C.E. initiative, became a founding member of Beaux-Arts Brampton Gallery, Studios and Workshop. She served on the Board of Directors as Membership Chairperson from October 2001 through May 2004 and continues to volunteer her time there as the Sponsorship Coordinator of the Juried Show Committee. In May of 2002, she opened her studio and began showing her work publicly, entering both juried and group shows. Her paintings and commissions are in private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, and Venezuela.
AWARDS
2003 Honourable Mention Through the Eyes of the Artist Juried Show, Lakeshore Arts Gallery for the oil painting “Denise, Ghana”
2004 Juror’s Award The Human Animal Bond Juried Show, Beaux-Arts Brampton Gallery for oil painting “Day Old Friends”
2006 Arts Acclaim Award City Of Brampton, for the 12 original paintings used in "Emma's Jungle Adventure", Giantbeaver Publications.
Honourable Mention "All that Jazz" Fanzorelli's Restorante Art show, for oil painting "Smoke & Mirrors"
Artist's Statement
As artists we are often asked what inspires us. I've always found this a difficult question, as the answer is infinite. My range of subject matter has always been varied from realistic portraits to completely abstract acrylics. I get bored easily and will change subjects regularly. Not until recently however, did I discover that in fact my subject matter is secondary to what truly inspires me: texture. Not the texture of actual objects or of my subject matter but the texture of the mediums that I work in. I will become overwhelmed with the feel of pencil on toothy paper, of painting in acrylics with my hands, of a pigment soaked brush on feather-soft watercolour paper. I will be lost in my mediums often for weeks or months at a time working with only one. Then it is over and I am overwhelmed by another texture, carried off in whatever direction it takes me. I am inspired.
Photo gallery: A sampling of artwork by Daniela Easter
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Please contact the artist directly if you are interested in the availability of any of the original paintings shown above. If you would like to see more of Daniela's work or to buy prints and greeting cards of her work please go to daniela-easter.artistwebsites.com
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