New blog now at http://debchaneyartist.wordpress.com/

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March 2014. I have now moved over to a new blog at: http://debchaneyartist.wordpress.com/

You can also stay connected on my news, new art works, in the studio pictures and so on
via these online social media sites which I update weekly:

http://www.facebook.com/debchaneyartist
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/debchaney
http://twitter.com/deborahchaney
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debchaney/
http://www.saatchiart.com/debchaney
debchaney.tumblr.com

I may end up deleting this blog at some point so pls take what you need while you're here. Haven't decided yet... OK, Thank you!

Come and find the perfect holiday gift!

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Come and join a combination of local businesses and artisans for Home Flow Staging's 
2013 Annnual Christmas Open House and Sale!

This picture shows front of warehouse where the Xmas Open House & Sale will be held

Thursday December 5th: 4-7 PM
Friday December 6th 4-7 pm
Saturday December 7th 10:30 am - 12:30 PM

1860 Powell Street, Vancouver BC
778-835-0001

Participating this year...

Home Flow Staging - Hosting this event at their warehosue and also offering beautiful modern household items for sale such as lamps, cushions, candle holders, and much more house hold items to beautify and decorate your living space (http://www.flowhomestaging.ca)


Deb Chaney - large and small original mixed media abstract artworks (http://debchaney.com)




Mona Sultan - Handmade, woven with stories, nostalgic in nature, bold printed scarves (http://www.monasultan.com/)



Teaja Organic - organice tea boutique with a wide selection of organic teas, hrebal lends and time-honoured botanical remedies. (http://www.teaja.com)



Kermodi Living Art-  Living artwork with beautiful aesthetic. (http://www.kermodi.com/)



Stretch Dog Leash - The ultimate stretch Leasch takes all the olting out of walking your large or small dog.



Torre & Tagus -  Beautiful modern things for home and office. (http://www.torretagus.com/)



A bit more about Home Flow and Staging itself...

I have had the opportunity and honor to work now with Home Flow Staging for the past couple of years whereby they have used my original art works in setting up homes for sale in the Vancouver area. A big thank you for including me in this event! 


With a combined 14 years of experience and over 400 homes staged in the past 5 years, we are one of the leading home staging companies in Vancouver. Successfully attracting buyers to your space is our specialty as we highlight your home’s best features and emphasize its style. A beautifully finished home, staged to perfection, sells quickly and helps you get the highest return on your investment. 

Staging is not only about making your property beautifully appealing to potential buyers, it is about standing out amongst your competition. Whether you are one on a list of condos for sale in a single building or a house with numerous similar listings in your neighbourhood, it is imperative to be the BEST! Staging your space allows buyers to see the possibilities while visualizing themselves and their future in this new home.

Homeflow also offer interior design services.

Aphrodite's Cafe and Pie Shop Art Display Nov 30th, 2013 - December 5th, 2014

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Deb Chaney Original Abstract Art Display 
Nov 30th, 2013 - December 5th, 2014


3598 W 4TH AVE, VANCOUVER, BC


Hours

Pie Shop
9:00 am to 9:00 pm Sunday to Thursday
9:00 am to 9:30 pm Friday and Saturday

Cafe
9:00 am to 9:00 pm Sunday to Thursday
9:00 am to 9:30 pm Friday and Saturday



Red
 30 x 40” “ Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas $1100

upclose view of Red:






East Van Birds 36 x 36" Mixed Media on Canvas $1200

Close up: 





from left to right:

IBHF (Inspired by Helen Frankenthauler)
24 x 36 “ Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas $850

up close:


Vermont in a Snowstorm
24 x 36 “ Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas $850 

up close:




Earth Strata
36 x 36” “ Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas $1200



up close:

Earth & Sky i & ii (dyptic)

 16 x 20” “ Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas $650 ea/ $1200 both
(Apolgies, No up close photos of these paintings are currently available.)





Staying Connected
(painting located in back left hand corner)
24 x 24" Mixed Media on Canvas
$650

up close:



Heart Wide Open
 36 x 48” “ Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas $1500
(Apologies, Currently There is No up close photos of this painting is currently available.)





Romance i & ii (dyptic)

24 x 36 “ Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas $850 ea/ $1600 both

Romance i - up close view:




This Art is available for rent
For TV and Film sets.

info@debchaney.com/604 736-5111
www.debchaney.com





Group Art Exhibit from Vancouver exhibits this weekend at eastside culture crawl

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Group Art Exhibit from Vancouver exhibits this weekend at eastside culture crawl

Soon to become an international phenomena, 'We are East Van' are making their second debut at the East Side Culture Crawl with their multidisciplinary group exhibit this year located at the Artist Resource Center (ARC) 1701 Powell Street this Friday November 15th through 17th. 'We are East Van' is a collaboration of seven (7) professional artists including renown furniture maker Mario Sabjlak,  film industry installation artist Rob Turriff, swiss born painter and sculpture Dieter Schlatter, prehistoric ivory sculpture and designer Richard Marcus, social commentary humorist painter Mark Henderson, abstract mixed media painter Deb Chaney, and re-claimed wood designer Jussi Leppanen. This is your chance to see the work, and meet these dynamic, motivated, and professional artists in Vancouver before they head off to Korea next year.  'We are East Van' first appeared at IDS West (International Design Show) Vancouver this year and will be exhibiting in Asia in 2014. They are the only group currently united to represent Vancouver artists to the world in art shows and exhibits.

For more information and/or to contact 'We Are East Van' please visit

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RIchard Marcus

Richard is a sculptor and designer who uses prehistoric ivory in an ancient mosaic technique that utilizes mammoth and mastodon ivory combined with semi-precious inlays to create sculpture and jewelry. He has exhibited in Canada and internationally.  Richard lives and works in East Vancouver. http://www.richardmarcus.ca

Dieter Schlatter

Born in Switzerland, Dieter has lived in Vancouver since 1989. A classically trained chef who worked internationally and as the executive chef for the Sheraton Vancouver. Dieter left the hospitality industry and began pursuing art in 1989. Among Dieter's many accomplishments he is a published writer. Dieter now paints and sculpts in East Vancouver.  http://dieter-schlatter.com/

Mark Henderson

Mark studied painting and printmaking at Emily Carr. His influences include his family, his friends, his neighborhood, popular culture, computers, his bicycles, and his muse. Mark lives and works in East Vancouver.  http://artcog.com/


Mario Sabljak

Mario creates custom hand built functional artistic furniture and interiors for
private and commercial clients. Mario lives and works in East Vancouver.  

Deb Chaney 

Deb is a contemporary abstract artist creating large mixed media paintings on canvas. 
She works and lives  in East Vancouver. 

Rob Turriff

Rob's artwork is situated at the intersection of art craft, informed by his experience as a film industry technician and as a sculptor. Rob works and lives  in East Vancouver.  http://www.robertturriff.com/

Jussi Leppahen

Jussi creates functional and artistic interior designs from reclaimed wood. He works and lives  in East Vancouver.

We Are East Van.




Birthday Painting Auction

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Because today is my birthday today and I've decided to auction this very special original painting entiteld IBHF - Inspired by Helen Frankenthauler - here today on this blog) to pay for a few personal birthday indulgences for myself and to send my work into the world!

IBHF (Inspired by Helen Frankenthauler)
Pure Abstraction Series
36 x 24 x 1 1/2 " Acrylics, Sand, and Mixed Media on canvas
(c) Original Painting by Deb Chaney 

Feng Shui Recommendation: This painting supports the development of wisdom, knowledge, and self cultivation. Place its image in the front left hand corner of your home, a room in your home or office to further enhance this area of your life.


Link to this painting on my website portfolio and others in this Pure Abstraction Series: http://www.debchaney.com/debchaney/Art_Portfolio/Pages/PureAbstraction.html#12


Bidding price starts at $250 (shipping and handling is extra if you live out of town and you require me to ship it to you)

You are welcome to bid 
1. here in the comments section below this blog post, 
2. or via email info@debchaney.com or 
3. directly on my facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/debchaneyartist


I'll post the winner in the comments section of this blog and on FB by the end of the week (July 12th)

Propanels Professional Exhibition Display For Sale

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Here is a sample of a display at a fair using these panels. This sample is not the one for sale but very close to it.
Pro Panels
The Pro Panel system is a fast and easy way to display art, exhibits and presentations. It is simple to set up and tear down. Plus, it’s incredibly flexible to accommodate a variety of different booth designs. Both sides are finished and are usable hanging space. Each panel connects to the next with the provided strap velcro fasteners that wrap around the upper and lower legs, allowing you to hinge in any direction.The legs are adjustable to allow for leveling on unleveled surfaces. The panels are dark grey ( photo of the colour of the cover material is attached) which is a fabulous background for photographs and most all artworks. Each panel is sturdy with a foam interior they are extremely light and easy to carry, set up, and dismantle. 
This package for sale incudes:
- 9 dark grey panels, each panel is  70" height  38" width in good condition and ready to use today for your next show or exhibition
- a matching dark grey pedestal 32 " high 15v" width  16" depth which can be used to hold office items, credit card machines, brochures, etc, without cluttering up your display
-  a very dark grey/black metal rod 80" extendable stabilizing bar that connects the top of panels to create a strong structure
You can set up your panels in many ways to make a very professional display. Here is the website where I originally bought the system and gives you ideas for your display set up.
For the whole system, panels, bar, pedestal and shipping, originally I paid well over $1800. I'm selling this entire system for $1250. This is an excellent deal and a solid investment in your exhibiting business for a more professional look than most showcases.
Attached are some pictures of the panels from the most recent art show exhibit in which I used them indoors (hence the reason they are in such good condition). You can pin small light paper art pieces directly on the panels and you can also hang heavier larger wired and framed paintings onto the panels. They can handle a fair bit of weight. To hang the larger wired or framed paintings simply use drapery pins directly into the panels to create a hook.
Please note, some of the attached pictures of displays that are not with dark grey panels are the SAME panels, but just different colours and set ups to give you an idea of possibilities and potential with this system. 

To purchase contact Deb at 604 736 5111 or info@debchaney.com 



Here is a sample of a display at a fair using these panels. This sample display is lighter in colour than the display set for sale  but a very close rendition of what the set looks like set up..


This is a sample of the height, width and size of the pedestol for sale with this set. THe only difference is that the pedetol for sale is dark grey and the exact colour of all the panels. IT's an excellent sales tool for credit card processing and brochures so they do not clutter your display. Very clean and professional looking. 

These are the original panels for sale

The panels are 9' heigh and here showing to display two art pieces both each 23" x 30" in size each with room aroud them for signs and labelling.

These are the original panels for sale and can be oriented in many different ways to exhibit your art work or other business products.

These are the original panels for sale, notice the velcro wrap around  on the legs that attacha and stabilize them. Also the feet are adjustable to account for any unlevel surface.

These are the original panels for sale used last year for the eastside culture crawl in my home studio. You can see the stabilizing bar across the top which is part of the set.




Sample display, these panels are lighter in colour than the panels for sale

THis is the colour of the panels and pedestol display for sale


To purchase contact Deb at 604 736 5111 or info@debchaney.com 

Passion and Voice, a second excerpt from Eric Maisel's new book "Making your Creative Mark"

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Passion and Voice
An Excerpt from Making Your Creative Mark by Eric Maisel

A logical — and vital — relationship exists between passion and voice. It is very hard to be passionate about what you’re doing if you haven’t found your voice as an artist. Imagine being forced to sing an octave too high or an octave too low, straining to hit notes that you can’t really hit and that aren’t natural to you. It would be very hard to be passionate about singing in that situation.
It is exactly like that with respect to whatever art you are creating. Whether you have been forced by circumstance not to create in your own voice, or whether you’ve avoided creating in your own voice for psychological reasons, the result will be a tremendous lack of passion for what you’re doing. Creating in your authentic voice produces and sustains passion.
With that in mind, here are ten tips for finding or reclaiming your voice. They are framed in terms of visual art, so if you are not a visual artist you will need to translate them so that they make sense for your art discipline.

1.    Detach from your current visual library. A very common problem, and almost always an unconscious one, is the need an artist feels to make his work look like something he holds as “good art” or “real art” — very often old master art. Because he possesses an internal library of the successful artworks of well-known artists, without quite realizing that he is doing it, he aims his art in the direction of those successes. It is vital that an artist detach from that visual library — extinguish it, as it were — so that his own imagery has a chance to appear.

 2.       Try not to rest on skills and talent. Maybe you excel at producing dynamic-looking cats or turning a patch of yellow into a convincing sun. That you have these talents doesn’t mean that you ought to be producing lifelike cats or brilliant suns. Your strongest subject matter and style choices depend on what you want to say rather than on what you are good at producing. By all means, parlay your skills and talents — but don’t rely on them so completely that you effectively silence yourself.

 3. Allow risk-taking to feel risky. Very often the personal work you want to do feels risky. Intellectually, you may find a way to convince yourself that the risk is worth taking — but when you try to take the risk, you balk because you suddenly feel anxiety welling up. Remember that a risk is likely to feel risky. Get ready for that reality by practicing and owning one or two robust anxiety-management strategies (more than a score of them are described in my book Mastering Creative Anxiety).

 4.       Complete projects for the sake of making progress. When you make new work that you think aims you in the direction of your genuine voice, try to complete that work rather than stopping midway because “it doesn’t look right” or “it isn’t working out.” You will make more progress if you push through those feelings, complete things, and only then appraise them. It is natural for work that is a stretch and new to you to provoke all sorts of uncomfortable feelings as you attempt it. Help yourself tolerate those feelings by reminding yourself that finishing is a key to progress.

 5.       Think at least a little bit about positioning. You may want to develop your voice independent of art trends and say exactly what you want to say in exactly the way you want to say it. On the other hand, it may serve you to take an interest in what’s going on and make strategic decisions about how you want to position yourself vis-à-vis the world of galleries, collectors, exhibitions, auctions, movements, and so on. It isn’t so much that one way is right and the other is wrong but rather that some marriage of the two, if you can pull it off, may serve you best: a marriage, that is, of marketplace strategizing and of intensely personal work that allows you to speak passionately in your own voice.

 6.       Try to articulate what you’re attempting. Artists are often of two minds as to whether they want to describe what they are attempting. Paraphrasing a visual experience into a verbal artist’s statement often feels unconvincing and beside the point. On the other hand, it can prove quite useful to announce to yourself what you hope to accomplish with your new work. By trying to put your next efforts into words, you may clarify your intentions and as a consequence more strongly value your efforts. The better you can describe what you are doing, the better you may understand your artistic voice — and the more passionate you can be in talking about your work.

 7.       Try not to repeat yourself. Repeating successful work has a way of reducing anxiety and can bring financial rewards as well. But it may also prevent us from moving forward and discovering what we hope to say. A balance to strike might be to do a certain amount of repeat work, for the sake of calmness and for the sake of your bank account, and to also add new work to your agenda. If you keep repeating yourself, it will prove very hard to remain passionate about your work.

 8.      Revisit your earliest passions. Life has a way of causing us to forget where our genuine passions reside. You may have spent decades in a big city and completely forgotten how much the desert means to you. You may have been so busy painting and parenting that your burning passion for creating a series of cityscapes fell off the map somewhere along the line. Finding your voice may involve something as simple and straightforward as making a list of your loves and starring the ones that still energize you. This is one of the simplest and smartest ways to discover what you are passionate about and what you want to say.

 9.       Think about integrating your different styles. Maybe you make two sorts of art, abstract relief paintings and realistic flat paintings. This division may have occurred at some point when, perhaps without consciously thinking the matter through, you decided that the one painting style allowed you to do something that the other didn’t. It may pay you to revisit this question today and see if the two styles can be integrated into some third style that allows the best of both current styles to come together. Whatever you discover from that investigation — whether it’s to move forward in a new way or to recommit to your current methods — you will have helped yourself better understand your artistic intentions. A lot of new passion can arise from these efforts at integration.

10.     Accept never-before-seen results. It can feel odd to speak in your own voice and then not recognize the results. Because what you’ve created may be genuinely new — and completely new to you — it may look like nothing you’ve ever seen before. That can prove disconcerting! Don’t rush to judge it as too odd, a mess or a mistake, or not what you’d intended. Give it some time to grow on you and speak to you. Your voice may sound unfamiliar to you if you’ve never heard it before!

Remember: one of the keys to maintaining passion and enthusiasm for your work is finding your own voice and speaking in it!
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Eric Maisel is the author of Making Your Creative Mark and twenty other creativity titles including Mastering Creative Anxiety, Brainstorm, Creativity for Life, and Coaching the Artist Within. America’s foremost creativity coach, he is widely known as a creativity expert who coaches individuals and trains creativity coaches through workshops and keynotes nationally and internationally. He has blogs on the Huffington Post and Psychology Today and writes a column for Professional Artist Magazine. Visit him online at http://www.ericmaisel.com.

Excerpted from the new book Making Your Creative Mark ©2013 by Eric Maisel.  Published with permission of New World Library http://www.newworldlibrary.com



Keeping painting fun...

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BurlapBag i Little Gem Series (c) Deb Chaney 2013

Last week I had the priveledge of supporting another artist in my studio for a one-on-one consultation. 

We focussed on re-igniting her inner creative spark, tricks and tips for getting in the habit of painting regularly, and the fundamentals of free style abstract painting. It was fun, beautiful, and emotional. We both ended up making several Little Gems paintings together and using them to learn and discuss about colour and composition.

In this blog here are two of my little collage paintings that I liked from our session. 

BurlapBag ii Little Gem Series (c) Deb Chaney 2013 

Painting Inspiration ! Leah had brought a piece of an old light brown heavily textured burlap coffee bag which inspired both of our work as we cut it, pulled it apart, and collaged it into our paintings.


Making your Creative Mark, book excerpt from Eric Maisel's newest book

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CONFIDENT CREATING
By Eric Maisel

If you want to live a creative life and make your mark in some competitive art field like writing, film-making, the visual arts, or music, and if at the same time you want to live an emotionally healthy life full of love and satisfaction, you need an intimate understanding of certain key ideas and how they relate to the creative process.

One key idea is that you must act confidently whether or not you feel confident. You need to manifest confidence in every stage of the creative process if you want to get your creative work accomplished. Here’s what confidence looks like throughout the creative process.

Stage 1. Wishing

‘Wishing’ is a pre-contemplation stage where you haven’t really decided that you intend to create. You dabble at making art, you don’t find your efforts very satisfying, and you don’t feel that you go deep all that often. The confidence that you need to manifest during this stage of the process is the confidence that you are equal to the rigors of creating. If you don’t confidently accept the reality of process and the reality of difficulty you may never really get started.


Stage 2. Incubation/Contemplation

During this second stage of the process you need to be able to remain open to what wants to come rather than defensively settling on a first idea or an easy idea. The task is remaining open and not settling for something that relieves your anxiety and your discomfort. The confidence needed here is the confidence to stay open.


Stage 3. Choosing Your Next Subject

At some point you need the confidence to say, “I am ready to work on this.”  You need the confidence to name a project clearly (even if that naming is “Now I go to the blank canvas without a pre-conceived idea and just start”), to commit to it, and to make sure that you aren’t leaking confidence even as you choose this project.  Choosing is a crucial part of the creative process.


Stage 4. Starting Your Work

When you start a new creative work you start with certain ideas for the work, certain hopes and enthusiasms, certain doubts and fears – that is, you start with an array of thoughts and feelings, some positive and some negative. The confidence you need at that moment is the confidence that you can weather all those thoughts and feelings and the confidence to go into the unknown.


Stage 5. Working

Once you are actually working on your creative project, you enter into the long process of fits and starts, ups and downs, excellent moments and terrible moments – the gamut of human experiences that attach to real work. For this stage you need the confidence that you can deal with your own doubts and resistances and the confidence that you can handle whatever the work throws at you.


Stage 6. Completing

At some point you will be near completing the work. It is often hard to complete what we start because then we are obliged to appraise it, learn if it is good or bad, deal with the rigors of showing and selling, and so on. The confidence required during this stage is the confidence to weather the very ideas of appraisal, criticism, rejection, disappointment and everything else that we fear may be coming once we announce that the work is done.


Stage 7. Showing

A time comes when we are obliged to show our work. The confidence needed here is not only the confidence to weather the ideas of appraisal, criticism, and rejection but the confidence to weather the reality of appraisal, criticism, and rejection. Like so many other manifestations of confidence, the basic confidence here sounds like “Bring it on!” You are agreeing to let the world do its thing and announcing that you can survive any blows that the world delivers.

Stage 8. Selling

A confident seller can negotiate, think on her feet, make pitches and presentations, advocate for her work, explain why her work is wanted, and so on. You don’t have to be over-confident, exuberant, over the top – you simply need to get yourself to the place of being a calmly confident seller, someone who first makes a thing and then sells it in a business-like manner.


Stage 9: New Incubation and Contemplation

While you are showing and selling your completed works you are also incubating and contemplating new projects and starting the process all over again. The confidence required here is the confident belief that you have more good ideas in you. You want to confidently assert that you have plenty more to say and plenty more to do – even if you don’t know what that “something” is quite yet.


Stage 10: Simultaneous and Shifting States and Stages

I’ve made the creative process sound rather neat and linear and usually it is anything but. Often we are stalled on one thing, contemplating another thing, trying to sell a third thing, and so on. The confidence needed throughout the process is the quiet, confident belief that you can stay organized, successfully handle all of the thoughts and feelings going on inside of you, get your work done, and manage everything. This is a juggler’s confidence—it is you announcing, “You bet that I can keep all of these balls in the air!”
Manifest confidence throughout the creative process. Failing to manifest confidence at any stage will stall the process. It isn’t easy living the artist’s life: the work is taxing, the shadows of your personality interfere, and the art marketplace if fiercely competitive. If you learn some key ideas, for instance that you must act confidently whether or not you feel confident, you give yourself the best chance possible for a productive and rewarding life in the arts.   

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Eric Maisel is the author of Making Your Creative Mark and twenty other creativity titles including Mastering Creative Anxiety, Brainstorm, Creativity for Life, and Coaching the Artist Within. America’s foremost creativity coach, he is widely known as a creativity expert who coaches individuals and trains creativity coaches through workshops and keynotes nationally and internationally. He has blogs on the Huffington Post and Psychology Today and writes a column for Professional Artist Magazine. Visit him online at http://www.ericmaisel.com. 


 The following article was adapated and posted with permission from  the new book Making Your Creative Mark ©2013 by Eric Maisel.  Published with permission of New World Library http://www.newworldlibrary.com

 Click here to win a free creativity coaching session with Eric Maisel:   http://bit.ly/16Q0DPc 

Pictures from art opening "Where Spirituality meets Physicality"

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Pictures from art opening "Where Spirituality meets Physicality" April 2013 Britannia Library Gallery, Vancouver, BC.


Painting on the left: Subtle Shift

Painting on the right: Storming

Subtle Shift
Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality
60 x 40" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas
$3500.00
2013 Deb Chaney 


Storming
Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality
48 x 72"" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas
$6500.00
2013 Deb Chaney 




Old and new friends hanging out at the opening.



Fellow artist Meredith Aitken with her artworks on the walls ajacent.
http://www.meredithaitken.com/about



Painting on the left: Sociere

Painting on the right: Surrender

Sorcière
Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality
60 x 40" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas
$3500.00
2013 Deb Chaney 



Surrender
Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality
60 x 40" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas
$3500.00
2013 Deb Chaney 




Robyn, Deb & Gabriella in front of Storming.



Robyn and Harry talking and laughing.



Haruko Okano, Gallery Curator, with Deb Chaney in the library gallery.



The girls Wendy, Carolyn, & Gabriella with the painting Serender in the background.

All photos taken and offered here with curtosy and thank you to Alan Katowitz. Pls contact him for prints and/or digital copies or other photography alankatowitz@gmail.com 604 961 3016 He is based in Vancouver, BC.

Video of Aritst Talk "Where Spirituality Meets Physicality"

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Where Spirituality meets Physicality, is a series large-scale  abstract landscape paintings by Deb Chaney were created while exploring into the question; where does spirituality meet physicality?

In each painting, the earth/ground represents the physical nature of existence where Deb taps into her technical knowledge of acrylics and mediums,  mixed media and raw earth materials materials, to create thick textured earthy matter "physicality". 

The sky/upper portion of each painting represent the spiritual nature of existence where the artist taps into the unseen realm of spirit, faith, surrender, trust, and inner listening allowing these to guide her gestural manipulation of liquid acrylics and polymer mediums to express the "spirituality".

The actual doing and process of creating these painting allows her to gain insight into this question of where and perhaps how spirituality and physicality meet. You can hear some of her answers which will be revealed during her Artist's talk recorded live at Britannia Library Gallery in Vancouver April 2013 and shown here on You Tube.







The paintings I talk about during this show will be professionally photographed and exhibited in my online portfolio next month in May. 




Where Spirituality meets Physicality: New Artworks and Artist's Talk

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Where Spirituality meets Physicality: 
New Artworks and Artist's Talk at Britannia Library Gallery April 2013

Deb in the studio with the first 4 paintings in this new series just before going to hang the show at the library gallery.

 Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013, 6:30-8:30 PM at Britannia Library Gallery, 1661 Napier Street (by Commercial Drive) in Vancouver.  


Artist's Talk: Wednesday, April 17, 7 PM at Britannia Library Gallery, 1661 Napier Street (by Commercial Drive) in Vancouver.

map to venue: http://goo.gl/maps/YY7sm

Britannia Art Gallery Hours & Contact Info:

Monday, Thurs, Fri 8:30 AM - 5 PM
Saturday 9:30 AM - 5 PM
Sunday 1-5 PM

brtngallery@gmail.com
www.britanniacentre.org
Where Spirituality meets Physicality, is a series large-scale  abstract landscape paintings by Deb Chaney were created while exploring into the question; where does spirituality meet physicality?
In each painting, the earth/ground represents the physical nature of existence where Deb taps into her technical knowledge of acrylics and mediums,  mixed media and raw earth materials materials, to create thick textured earthy matter "physicality".

The sky/upper portion of each painting represent the spiritual nature of existence where the artist taps into the unseen realm of spirit, faith, surrender, trust, and inner listening allowing these to guide her gestural manipulation of liquid acrylics and polymer mediums to express the "spirituality".

The actual doing and process of creating these painting allows her to gain insight into this question of where and perhaps how spirituality and physicality meet. You can hear some of her answers which will be revealed during her Artist's talk Wednesday April 17th at 7 PM.


 Paintings shown in the photograph are described as follows labelled from left to right, and will appear professionaly photographed in my online portfolio next month.
Surrender
Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality
60 x 40" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas
$3500.00
2013 Deb Chaney 
www.debchaney.com




Sorcière
Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality
60 x 40" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas
$3500.00
2013 Deb Chaney 

Storming
Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality
48 x 72"" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas
$6500.00
2013 Deb Chaney 



Subtle Shift
Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality
60 x 40" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas
$3500.00
2013 Deb Chaney 





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