Bramble (Nancy) Drewitt, Michelle Vulama, and Shirley Wiebe: Ladies in the House!

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Shirley Wiebe

Bramble (Nancy) Drewitt, Michelle Vulama, and Shirley Wiebe: Ladies in the House!

This month we celebrate three self-taught female artists who's work is completely different from one another. We have Bramble (Nancy) Drewitt who is painting images of dreams and visions;  Michelle Vulama is focused on finding the unfindable in rocks and stones; and Shirley Wiebe brings  her own contemporary view of urban living through collage and drawing.

Bramble (Nancy) Drewitt

Nancy Drewitt (Bramble) is a former social justice and anti-oppression activist currently unfolding as a late bloomer artist. Nancy uses watercolours to paint maps of her life weaving together textures of experience, dreams, visions, symbols, and images from myth and tarot. Her paintings are not preconceived but revealed as she follows the threads that evolve with painting one image, then waiting for the next to surface. As a Reclaiming witch, and Rosen Method bodyworker, Drewitt finds her art, the art of the craft, and her healing modality, to basically be a practice of following the threads that call you into mystery.

Michelle Vulama

Michelle Vulama is a Canadian artist specializing in rock painting. Using carefully handpicked rocks from various locales, Michelle lets the natural lines and contours of the rock guide her vision. Then with deft touches of acrylic paint, Michelle reveals the story behind each rock and shares it with the world. Michelle paints everything from large intricate pieces, down to small rocks that can be gifted or worn as pendants.

Despite having received no formal artistic education, Vulama has always been fascinated by the idea that she can use her skills to transform ‘bits of garbage into something people will admire and value’. Consequently, Vulama frequently took to painting on unusual canvases such as jam-jar lids and cereal boxes. Experimentation with a multitude of these atypical mediums enabled Vulama to refine her canvas-preference and ultimately led her to develop her unique penchant for rock-painting.

Shirley Wiebe

Shirley Wiebe is an interdisciplinary artist living in Vancouver BC. Born and raised near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Shirley's work is informed by a strong childhood relationship with the prairie landscape. She has a keen interest in site-specific and project-based work. Her focus is on the inter-relationship of physical geography and the built environment.

"My recent artwork combines architectural sites and landscapes in an ongoing collage series that explores a state of flux. I feel I am witnessing richness at the rough edges of change, recording history in the making."