Tina Komendat and Victoria Marie: Birds! Birds! Birds!

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Tina Komendat and Victoria Marie, "Birds! Birds! Birds!," 2021

Tina Komendat and Victoria Marie: Birds! Birds! Birds!

Victoria Marie (watercolor)

This will be the first time Victoria Marie has shown her work in a gallery. Victoria is a "late bloomer" having started her artistic journey in November 2020 at age 75.

My studio is approximately four feet between my bed and the computer. I try to hone my skill by painting daily sometimes with the help of YouTube “how to” videos. The work I love to do, and which usually turns out best, is when I work on my self-assigned project of painting endangered species.

For the past 9 years, Victoria has served the Our Lady of Guadalupe Tonantzin Community in Vancouver as their priest and pastor.

Tina Komendat (mixed media)

I began to create art, because I knew I wanted a visual reminder to be happy. I’ve come to the simple conclusion that I’m here to expand through love and fear.

By doing what I love, I hope to inspire others to find joy in their life. By facing my fears, I hope to expand and make my dreams come true!

As a child, I often doodled images of things that made me happy when I felt sad or angry to take my mind off of my troubles. I drew horses, birds, flowers and hearts and stars and swirls. A teacher in school said that I must be cheating by copying the images. Another one was critical and bored and not encouraging. Even though all I wanted to do was create, my Mom told me, I wasn’t good enough and that I’d be a starving artist. I stopped all creativity and got on with life the best I could. When I was raising my two beautiful daughters alone, I was depressed and focusing on “not enough," I had no art on my walls, I was just trying to get through. I decided I could paint, I wanted happy walls! I created a painting that showed me that I’m not alone and that in fact, it 'takes a village.' It brought me out of my depression and began to show myself that being creative is more important than being good. My passion helps me to process the challenges of my life and feel exhilarated too!