Candice James is a self-taught visual artist who started painting late in life. She is Poet Laureate Emerita, City of New Westminster, BC CANADA; - musician, singer songwriter; and member of Arts BC and League of Canadian Poets.
FULL Artist Statement:
I am a self-taught Artist who started painting late in life. I have never taken a lesson and I can’t draw, sketch or copy, so everything I paint comes from my mind visualizations. I mostly use palette knives in a paintbrush style and sometimes, very little, I used brushes. I start with deciding which colors I want to use and put them on my palette and then I pick up one of my palette knives and scoop up one of the colours on my palette and spread it on the blank canvas. I do this with a bunch of the colors and then I look at the canvas. I always see something in the “mess” and I use that as a starting point and then the painting begins to take shape. I mostly paint in acrylics but I have done a few watercolour paintings also. I have been fortunate enough to have sold many paintings but I have also given paintings away to ekphrastic workshop presenters so the poets can choose a painting to write a poem to and then they get to take that painting home with them. I am a member of Arts BC; New West Artists; Century House Artists; and Arts Council New Westminster. You can find me on https://www.silverbowpublishing.com/candice-james-paintings.html and also on youtube, facebook and various other websites.
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| Tilt-A-Whirl Ejection |
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| Sailing into Sunset |
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| Painted Desert |
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| Encantodo Alpine Valley |
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| Piano Concerr in the Ether |
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| Fog Rolling in |
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| Early Light Snowfall |
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| Twilight Breaking |
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| Survivor |
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| The Fairie and the Ombre Rose |
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