MO HAMILTON

Painting, Print Making, Collage, Mixed Media

City: Prince George, British Columbia

Website: http://mohamilton.ca

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/artmohamilton/

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mohamilton_visualartist/

Artist Statement: Mo Hamilton is a BC painter and printmaker whose inspiration comes from current events in the external world around her as well as the internal world of her imagination. Mo reduces her images to their essential elements so she can bring simplicity, myth and storytelling to her work. In her paintings and prints she explores themes of uncertainty, instability and disruption how these impact our sense of security. She often uses humour in her work as a way of expressing our human ability to adapt to change with the idea that it is better to laugh than to cry. Mo's intuitive multi-layered paintings incorporate collage, words and found images to reveal her inner narrative.

Biography: Mo Hamilton has exhibited and sold her work in many galleries through out BC. She facilitated the Art Heals Program at the Northern Health Hospital in Prince George for many years as well as taught workshops at Two Rivers Gallery, Smither's Art Gallery, Terrace Art Gallery, Kootenay Art Gallery, Island Mountain Arts and also Metchosin Summer School of the Arts. Mo studied art at Camosun College, has done a couple of TOAP mentorships at IMA in Wells and continues to learn, grow and follow her curiosity as it applies to art making. She has lived and worked in many communities through out BC but now works as full-time artist in her home studio in Prince George, BC.