Bio – danie wood.art

PROFILE

Danie Wood is an emerging Canadian painter working in contemporary abstract style. She paints the metaphysical, the place where your unconscious mind goes to wander – where a cloud vaporizes before your eyes and you realize that the viscosity of paint is all that is really there.

Influenced by Tak Tenabe, Kiefer and Rothko, Wood stresses both the physical reality of landscape and its psychological amplitude. Painting her subject as a reflection of the human condition, she uses it as a means to critique contemporary ideas of identity, change and transformation.

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.

exhibitions

experience

01.1990 to Current | bau+wow Creative, Vancouver BC / Stimuli Creative, Victoria BC
Creative Director – Lead, create, and manage design and branding programs for a wide variety of clients in different markets.

09. 2013 to 10.2015 | Wundr | Vancouver, BC
Creative Director – development / user-centered design of ‘PlayWrite’ software.

09.1998 to 05.2000 | Emily Carr University of Art + Design Vancouver, BC
Sessional Instructor – Instructed various graphic design courses within the Visual Arts Department.

01.1991 to 01.1993 Western Living Magazine Vancouver, BC
Assoc. Art Director – Designed and managed Upfront section of magazine, managing photographers
and illustrators.

education

BFA – 1988 York University, T.O. | Member of the Dean’s Honour Roll

ADDITIONAL INFO

Co-ordinator, Producer, Creative Director – Pecha Kucha Nights, Salt Spring Island, BC | Co-ordinator, Producer – Artbarn International Creative Projects, Salt Spring Island, BC | Design & marketing for Salt Spring National Art Prize.

sold record

Burn Series I – After Vincent | 24”x24” | oil on canvas | Aug 2013 – Pat Preston – SSI, BC

Europa – Shadow Crossing | 48”x48” | oil on canvas | Sept, 2013 – Julie Mackinnon – SSI, BC

Burn Series IV | 96”x48” | oil on canvas | Dec 2013 – C. West – SSI, BC

Distance I | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | June 2014 – C. West – SSI, BC

Night + Day I | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | Nov 2013 – Shelby Johnstone – SSI, BC

Burn Series V | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | April 2014 – Karen and Barry Balshaw – Vancouver, BC

Sunset II – yellow | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | April 2014 – Karen and Barry Balshaw – Vancouver, BC

Night + Day II | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | April 2014 – Karen and Barry Balshaw – Vancouver, BC

Sunset I – Neon Orange | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | Aug 12, 2014 – Erin Boyer – Seattle WA

BURN SERIES VI | 72”x36” | oil on canvas | July 22, 2014 – Suh Young – New York, NY

Burn Series VII – Yellow Line | 48”x60” | oil on canvas | Aug 23, 2014 – Graham Covington – Wash, DC

Distance II , 2014 | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | Jan 27, 2015 – Blayne Curtis – Cohasset, MA

Starker Wind | 66”x66” | oil on canvas | Jan 7, 2015 – Jessica Iwaniec – New York, NY

City on Fire III | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | Nov 16, 2014 – Steven Wiesner – San Francisco, CA

Dark I | 24”x24” | oil on canvas | Nov 15, 2014 – David Rankin – New York, NY

City on Fire I | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | Feb 10, 2015 – Basma Anastas – Springfield Gardens, NY

Sehr Dunkel | 66”x66” | oil on canvas | Feb 23, 2015 – Dun Brad – Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

City on Fire IV | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | Jun 19, 2015 – Michael Neill – Down, NORTHERN IRELAND

Fallen Yellow | 40”x60” | oil on canvas | Feb 23, 2016 – Collector, Saatchi Online – Henderson, NV

Rising Yellow | 48”x71” | oil on canvas | Mar 17, 2017 – Juan Speck – Brampton ON

After Storm I | 35”x54” | oil on canvas | June 14 2017 – Heather Brugge – Vancouver, BC

After-burn, 2015 | 60”x36” | oil on canvas | Collector, Artworks Gallery – Vancouver, BC

Fallen | 48”x48” | oil on canvas | Aug 4, 2017 – Tony Frasca – Austin, Texas

Starry Nite | 48”x71” | oil on canvas | Aug 21, 2017 – Juan Speck – Brampton, ON

City on Fire V | 40”x60” | oil on canvas | Oct 23, 2017 – Kristof Terryn – Rueschlikon, SWITZERLAND

After Rothko I | 48”x72” | oil on canvas | Mar 01, 2018 – Heather Hager – Lake Oswego, OR

Étoile Noire II + Étoile Noire Ensoleilleé – Dyptich | Collector, SSAC – SSNAP Fundraiser May 2017 – SSI, BC

After Borduas | 48”x60” | oil on canvas | Apr 18, 2018 – Hannah Halow – Menlo Park, CA

Étoile Noire Ensoleilleé II – Dyptich | 2 @ 36”x36” | oil on canvas | May 11, 2018 – Julie Lee – Toronto, ON

Fallen Yellow II | 48”x48” | oil on canvas | February 25, 2019 – Lara Fosseen – Mercer Island, WA

After Storm – After Tak | 47”x83” | oil on canvas | March 9, 2019 – Linda Dodson – Park City, Utah

Wisdom | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | May, 2019 – Sandra Heath – SSI, BC

Loss II | 36”x36” | oil on linen | May, 2019 – Nancy Farran – SSI, BC

Burn Series VIII | 40”x60” | oil on canvas | June, 2019 – Victoria Art Gallery Victoria, BC

After Burn | 36”x60” | oil on canvas | July, 2019 – Art Works – Vancouver, BC

Zwielicht | 40”x60” | oil on canvas | Sept, 2019 – Art Works – Vancouver, BC

My Language | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | APR 19, 2020 – Jeanne Zebroski – Cheltenham, PA

Zwielicht II | 40”x60” | oil on canvas | JUL 1, 2020 – Tigran Sukiasyan – Pasadena, CA

Patois Landscape II | 49”x49” | oil on canvas | Nov 13, 2020 – Linda Leao – Hillsborough, CA

Out of the Black, Into the Blue | 40”x78.75” | oil on wood board | Feb 16, 2021 – Heidi Nietert – Tucson, AZ

Black Zebra | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | Apr 29, 2021 – Martin Föhl – Stuttgart, Germany

Neon Loss | 36”x36” | oil on canvas | Apr 29, 2021 – Martin Föhl – Stuttgart, Germany