My work stresses both the physical reality of art making and its psychological value – a dialogue between place and being. I use my art as a metaphor to critique contemporary ideas of identity, gravity and change, my subject becomes a reflection of the human condition.
I endeavour to explore the idea of the loss of connection between ourselves, the natural world and each other. In this digital age, we face the loss of ritual, passage, and connection that makes us human. We engage with the digital landscape in isolation, even though we are said to be connected, causing confusion about what is reality and our place within it.
Profoundly influenced by Anselm Kiefer, Antoni Tàpies, and Paul-Émile Borduas, some of my techniques reference the process of Les Automatistes. Control and the loss of it are mechanisms very much alive in my work. In my mark making, I attempt to lead us back to our emotions and sensory experiences which connects us to ourselves and the world around us.
Danie Wood is a Canadian painter working in contemporary abstract style. Born in London, England, Wood now lives on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. A creative director by trade, she was schooled at York University and received a BFA with Honours. There, she studied under Ronald Bloore and assisted in his studio between 1987-88. Bloore’s hieroglyphic, pictographic forms searching to communicate essential truths of the human condition became an early formative influence.