Bramble Nancy Drewitt: Between the Worlds

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Bramble Nancy Drewitt, “Between the Worlds,” 2025

(courtesy of the Gallery)

Opening Reception: March 1: 6-8pm. Free & open to the public

When witches create sacred space we say, “What happens between the worlds, changes all the worlds." Between the world’s means existing in a space that is not fully part of one reality or another. A liminal mercurial place in between two states of being. These in between states is where symbolic consciousness opens the way for magic and art.

Liminal space lies between what was, what is and what could be, and where I dip into when I paint, or do magic or bodywork. I follow the path of the unknown listening to mystery and what is revealed to me. It is almost never preconceived. I already know what I know, I am more interested in what I don’t know. I’m more interested in what’s beyond me. The unexpected is always a good sign. To me it means I am in the right place connected to “forces” beyond myself. Predominantly working in watercolour, often on mulberry paper, and at times on canvas, sometimes with metallic acrylic, I paint one thing then wait for the next image to be revealed. I consider my paintings as maps and as I paint I come to understand what is emerging in my life.

What’s up for me in my life, the state of the world, social equity, my nervous system and disabilities, become transmuted with symbolic representation forming the background as the mercurial ebbs and flows around it. Images from my past, gods, tarot, dreams, fabric prints, formulas, computer code and plants form a visual pallet of a symbolic language which are keys to my art. Some images I’m compelled to repeat like checkered floors or the hangman, other imagesI just feel the urge and may not yet understand the meaning. I often have the sense that I am channeling rather than creating.

Growing up in Winnipeg, land of the Anishinabewaki, Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) and Metis, and as the eldest of 5 with a working class single parent mother, I went on to raise my own son as a single parent. Social justice is extremely important to me and I spent my life working for social change. Now grateful to be an old one, I follow the rhythms of a body with chronic pain and devote myself to magic, writing, art, and healing on the unceded traditional and ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam),sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Bramble Nancy Drewitt

Events:

• March 8: 2-3pm. Artist led exhibition tour. Free & open to the public.
• March 22: 2-4pm. Inner Divination and Creative Expression: Designing Your Own Tarot Card with Bramble Drewitt.

Visit our website for more information and registration.