Rebecca Girouard

My passion in creating art is to invite the viewer into nature's surroundings where the forest and seas are most prominent. These paintings provide an opportunity for a journey, when sometimes I have been unable to physically venture forth. My work is most often seen at a distance and not close up. Texture, which provides a tactile quality, along with applying drawing techniques for immediacy and the use of palette knives brings a unique aspect to my paintings.

More recently, I have begun to create what I call "Spirit Paintings". These are the result of me tapping into Source Energy as well as those who have passed on, allowing the images to show themselves. As an Intuitive Energy Healer, I have found this process to be deeply moving. Many of these paintings are done mostly with palette knives and are larger in scale.

Artistically, I studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for my foundational studies and have continued with art education with various artists across Canada, the US and Europe. I am self-taught in Acrylics, and have also produced Ink Brush drawings, Graphite drawings, Graphite Wash paintings, Charcoal, Pastel and Watercolours.

My work was accepted and sold at the Sooke Fine Arts Show in 2010.

Over the past 21 years of living in Sooke, I have been an avid supporter of providing art to our local charitable organizations for fund raising, as well as to the Sooke Secret Garden Tour and Beach Art En Plein Air.