As an artist, I obtain my inspiration from the external world around me, but reveal in my paintings the internal world of my imagination.  By reducing my images to their essential elements, I can bring simplicity, myth, and the primal, to my explorations of limits and boundaries with the intent of moving beyond them.  Recently, I have worked on a series of paintings that explore the soul’s journey.  I have followed my vision to places I had not intended to go allowing my intuition to guide me.  I have found power in words and incorporated them in my work; I have used collage and montage to go places I had not been before.  I use life story as the dark, rich compost to generate new creation and have in my most recent paintings worked more intuitively than ever before.

 

 

Mo Hamilton’s Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:

• 1989 Art Acadamie, VictoriaC., Color Theory and Painting
• 1992 Harold Street Art School, VictoriaC., Lino-Printing Intensive
• 1993 Camosun College, Victoria, B.C.
• 1994 Okanagan Summer School of the Arts, PentictonC, Painting
• 2007 Island Mountain Art, The Toni Only Artist’s Project
• 2014 Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts.
• 2015 Seven Day Artlife workshop with Nicholas Wilton

 

Grants:

• 2001 Kootenay Arts Council Grant, Castlegar B.C

Commissions:

• 1999 Kootenay Gallery of Art and Science (8’x30’ mural) Castlegar, B.C.
• 1996 Bountiful Books (8’x10’ mural) Castlegar, B.C.

 

Solo Exhibitions

• 1992 Tudor Rose Tea Room, VictoriaC
• 1994 The Parsonage, VictoriaC.
• 2007 Resonance, Rustad Gallery, Prince George, B.C.
• 2010 Studio 2880, Prince George, B.C.
• 2011 Still Living North, Terrace Art Gallery, Terrace, B.C.
• 2016 Repose and Awakening, Stationhouse Gallery, Williams Lake, BC
• 2016 Repose and Awakening, Smithers Art Gallery, Smithers, BC

 

Group Exhibitions

• 1992 Imprints, Harold Street Art World, VictoriaC.
• 1996 Art Walk, Castlegar, B.C.
• 1997 Art Walk, Castlegar, B.C.
• 2005 The Bevelled Edge Gallery, Terrace B.C.
• 2006 Mapping the Intimate, Terrace Art GalleryC.
• 2006 Monday Mornings, Terrace Art Gallery
• 2006 Art Walk, Terrace B.C.
• 2007 Sparks, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George B.C.
• 2007 Arts Fest 2007, Burns Lake C.
• 2007 An Uncertain Climate, London Hotel, Prince George B.C.
• 2008 Car-ma Driving Destiny, Artspace, Prince George, B.C.
• 2008 Arts Fest 2008, Quesnel, B.C. ( work submitted was chosen to tour)
• 2009 View from the Bridge, Two Rivers Galleria, Prince George B.C.
• 2009 Undercurrents, Artspace, Prince George, B.C.
• 2009 Toys in the Attic, Beasts in the Basement, Rustad Galleria, Two River’s Gallery, Prince George, B.C.
• 2010 Consumed, Artspace, Prince George, B.C.
• 2011 Rust and Found, Groop Gallery, Prince George, B.C.
• 2011 Mined over Matter, Groop Gallery, Prince George, B.C.
• 2011 Toys in the Attic, Beasts in the Basement, Island Mountain Arts Gallery, Wells, B.C.
• 2013 Place, Groop Gallery, Prince George, BC
• 2016 Voice, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC

 

 Performing Arts

     

• 2000—2003 The Sunflower Puppet Troupe, Castlegar B.C.
• 2004—2006 Suitcase Theater, Terrace, B.C.
• 2013-2015 Out of the Suitcase Theatre, Prince George, BC

 

Teaching

 

• 2007—2015 Teaching adult classes in Mixed-Media and art for adults, teens and youth at the Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, B.C
• 2009–2015 Facilitator of the Art Heals outreach program for adults and youth at the hospital for Two Rivers Gallery.

 

Private Galleries

 

• Mountainside Gallery, Terrace, BC
• Groop Gallery, Prince George, BC
• Two Rivers Shop at the Gallery, Prince George, BC
• Studio 2880, Prince George, BC

 

 

Films

 

• 2014 Paper Clothes

 

• 2013 Bird, House, Woman

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Books

2016 Four Neat Holes, poems by Al Rempel, illustrations by Mo Hamilton