The Art –

The root of all art is born from our deepest, personal, and consuming urge to Create, an impelling desire to share with our fellow human beings, to bring the unseen into the seen; to convey, connect, and ultimately create a new reality by understanding and fusing the undefined, limitless, internal potential to the external, physical expression in whichever form required, ultimately fashioning a permanent resting place for our Creation.

Art moves us, carries us, and externalizes every world of imagination into tangible forms. Those who hear its tantalizing whispers echoing through the veils of this world have truly been gifted the role of Transcriber, each hearing a different part of the same conversation.

How we choose to transcribe is the dance between message and messenger, whether the crack of the hammer and chisel onto stone, or the synchronous movement of passionate hands and undulating fingers shaping a stump of clay, or the clenched pencil or brush impatiently eager to adorn its vision onto a canvas with moments of present and future, or the camera shutter instantly releasing in order to capture a single moment which transcends into collages of colored emotion, or threads woven with a patterned purpose, each stitched into our fabric of thoughts, thoughts not parented by mind.

Artistry is our soul’s evolution … the lifetime play between artist and observer.

- Sonja-jade Lilly

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Bob Craig is a Western Canadian artist whose path in the fine arts has led him to a unique expression of mood and color through collage and mixed media. He has explored numerous forms of art and craft: painting in watercolor and oils, sculpture and pottery. After graduating from the University of Alberta Bob had a teaching career in Alberta and British Columbia.

Bob thinks of himself as a craftsman, constructing, or interpreting imagery from his conscious and subconscious mind. His work has appeared in juried exhibits and galleries in Canada (Vancouver and Montreal), Italy, Spain, Portugal, Crete, the United States (New York and Beverly Hills), New Zealand and Switzerland where his exhibition piece. After Treaty Seven, took first prize in the free subject media category at SEETAL 2006.

“I have throughout my adult life occasionally lived in altered perceptual states where reality became magnified and the world was one giant harmonious gestalt. My art is an effort to recapture the vivid nature of these encounters.”