Marcela Strasdas - Beachcombing - Oil on Canvas

Marcela Strasdas (@marcelastrasdas) is an Argentinian-Canadian painter who loves painting landscapes, still-lifes, and florals full of energy and movement. She is greatly inspired by traveling and gardening, which are the starting points of vibrant, colourful paintings that showcase her surroundings. She has received instruction, inspiration, and mentorship from many renowned artists she admires, and strongly believes there is no end to learning and growing as an artist, so she continues to study and learn as much as possible on a daily basis. Direct observation and plein-air work are a vital part of Marcela's process. She regularly paints outdoors with a couple of groups in her hometown of Victoria, BC. She has also painted in many areas of the world, like BC, the Bugaboos, Lake Tahoe, Italy, Hawaii, and the Arctic Tundra, just to name a few. “I am a painter with a passion for flowers, gardens, traveling, and the ocean. It all gets translated into colourful paintings that reflect all the beauty I see around me. Painting allows me to remember places I have been, moments I have lived. Plein air painting allows me to freeze those moments in time and helps me see things I can’t catch at first glance. Everything changes after I have been looking at the same scene for more than ten minutes: Colours intensify and change, light shifts, and I start finding shapes within shapes. Magic starts to happen. It’s the best way for me to slow down, pause, and enjoy the moment.”.

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Oil on Canvas