Poppy Balser

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artist statement

My surroundings on the beautiful shore ofSouthwest Nova Scotia keep me constantly inspired.  I find watercolour the perfect medium for capturing the atmosphere and light of my local environment.  The immediacy and unpredictability of the paint allows me to repond to both what lies before me and what is happening on the paper.   I tend to focus on scenes of nature, be it our ever-changing coastline or flowers that I have grown in my garden.  I attempt to show these things as I see them; striving to keep my paintings fresh and spontaneous with luminous colour.

selected biography

Poppy has been painting exclusively in watercolour for the last six years.  She is largely self taught, though she feels that she has benefitted greatly from workshops and classes from local artists including Lousie Williams, Wayne Boucher and Janina Wesenhagen.

She is represented locally by The Flight of Fancy in Bear River and BlueFin Fine Handicrafts and Gifts in Digby.  Her work is held in private collections across North America and in the Art Bank of Nova Scotia .

Awards:

• ·Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival Art Festival 2008: Judge’s Choice for “Conflagration”, People’s Choice and 2^ndPlace , Portraits for “ Alice ”

Previous Shows:

• Featured Artist at Digby Scallop Palette, March-April 2009.
• Apple Pie Pottery, Middleton , NS , Winter 2008-09.
• ·Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Center , St Andrews , NB. Oct 2008 with Verena Rose Buerkle (pastels) and Juliette Scheffers (pottery).