https://www.straight.com/arts/1006596/vancouver-artist-vanessa-lam-wins-bombay-artisan-series-grand-prize
by Janet Smith on December 11th, 2017 at 10:52 AM
photo: JOEY ARMSTRONG
Vancouver mixed-media painter Vanessa Lam has won the grand prize for the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series in Miami.
Now in its eighth year, the series searches out emerging visual artists from across North America, bringing 16 finalists to the international art…
Vanessa Lam investigates the dynamics of form, space and the unconscious through collage and mixed media painting. She refers to Abstract Expressionism in her work through gesture and automatic painting. Her action-oriented process involves a balance between chance and control. Although her mark making may…
Krista Johnson is a Vancouver based artist. Her representational paintings allow her to explore the relationship between color and light as it exists in the natural world. It is this constant need to seek out an abundance of nature that she continually examines in her…