Current Place des Arts visual arts teacher

Biography

Cara Bain is a visual artist and art educator born and raised in Vancouver, BC. She creates oil paintings that combine traditional techniques with a flair for contemporary creativity. She’s known for both her figurative and landscape paintings, combining natural expressiveness with unique textures of copper leaf patina. Cara has been an art instructor since 2016, teaching adults, teens and children to build a solid foundation of skill and to express their creative ideas. Cara holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communication and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions over her 20 years of experience as an artist.

Artist Statement

My body of work explores complex ideas through the human form and the vivacious energy of nature. What interests me most is the veil between what people express and what stays hidden, what we can know about each other and what remains unknown. In my most recent work, I’ve developed a unique approach of combining oil painting with copper leaf patina. I embrace the chemical process of the copper-turned-blue-green to disintegrate motifs and forms. It reminds me of the impermanence of what we try to grasp and the beauty that can be found in decay.

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Instagram: @art.by.cara.bain

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