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About Ala's Paintings
Hello, my name is Ala Talmatchi and I am a multimedia and tapestry artist based in Vancouver, BC. I am a graduate of Fine Arts and Education and a teacher who educates through Fine Arts. My paintings echo my life passions: neuroaesthetics, education, cultural and environmental diversity preservation, oenology, weaving, hiking, and world traveling.
Influenced by the kintsugi philosophy, I like to think of my artwork as a form of meditation, a therapeutic process of putting the broken parts together, a source of acceptance and resilience. My canvas is a display of diverse materials: bold colors, patterns, recycled paper, semi-precious stones, collages, and borders between arts and crafts. As an artist and a hiker, environmental concerns have become a key awareness for me as I hike and see the destruction of so much wilderness area that I previously loved and explored. At the same time, I see the “kintsugi gold”, the first layers of plants that start the regeneration of a wounded forest.
My hiking, world traveling, and my keen observation of nature have significantly marked my art. Seeing the multitude of geological layers and botanical diversity translates into how I paint and what paper patterns or textures I use to convey the fragility of cultural and environmental diversity.
