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Alan Briks

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Alan Briks
Art to me is necessity, a spiritual endeavour, a meditation. Usually the process involves a struggle, mediated though play. As I become more fluent in the dialects of visual expression, looser to some degree, I enjoy a visceral experience within a gestalt of rhythms, patterns, and light.   

I began painting landscapes and portraits in my teens. In my twenties I focused on designing/ creating commissioned stained glass panels. My training and experience as an art therapist has been an asset in my artistic development, for instance, in cultivating my knowledge of the creative process, the  potentials of spontaneous art, process over product, the psychology of art, as well, enhancing my personal growth.  

In recent years my art focus has been  plein air painting , non-representational abstracts and  life drawing. I find these avenues mutually enhancing toward refining my skills 

 Sometimes I have been told my painting really captures a scene. If so, it may be more a matter of the scene capturing me. When painting outdoors I strive to interpolate a veritable expression of a place, event and atmosphere which inspires. My landscapes do not pinpoint time. Instead they involve an engagement with a fragment of nature through a passage of time. In awe, I am observing the dynamism of natural forces in an ever-transforming universe. In this way my focus is with movements occurring as a mountain becomes unveiled through lifting clouds - an unfolding story. There are parallel processes taking place of making a painting while on - going nature recreating itself. 

Residing in Alberta is a blessing which provides opportunity to explore and paint in some of the most beautiful natural environments in the world. In Calgary I am most fortunate to count among friends a talented group of artists as well those in the creative arts therapies who inspire and encourage.  I am delighted to become a member of Betzalel Arts.  



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