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Circe
City: Keswick
Country:
CA
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Biography |
| I was born in Montreal, Canada where I learned how to draw and paint as a professional in the early eighties. I took a few years away from my art to explore various facets of life and also because I was dealing with having surgeries to correct a physiological condition called transsexuality and as in everything that is true and right and meant to be, I came back to my passion more complete and filled with a sense of purpose like never before. My paintings have been sold to many over the years, be that through art shows or through commissioned pieces for private clients. Today, my art is filled with the wonder of my woman’s voice and views. My favorite mediums are oils, soft pastels and charcoal.
My awareness of female bodies and love of them is a struggle/play between my aesthetic and political senses and values, I speaks to both, sometimes within the same painting. I feel that I impart a certain organic, feminine cognitive aspect of myself in my art, that it can be understood and felt, all depending on the topic and/or subject of a given piece. My aesthetic sense is very much my own, female but born of a life in the wrong body and subjected to years of seeing through the world of the opposite gender. My awareness speaks to survival, to female eroticism and to the extraordinary queerness of life. My work also delves on pain and othering at times, of being on the outside looking in. Being a woman of transsexual experience has permitted me to better understand oppression
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