Skye Skagfeld

Skye was born on Vancouver Island where she currently paints and resides. She has also worked and travelled extensively abroad, including a decade spent in Singapore. After her lengthy global exploration, inquiry and education she returned to her birthplace and became passionate about painting. She has a Master's degree in Sustainable Leisure Management from which her research in Australia spurred a dedication to living life as an artist. She continues to learn painting methods through assistantships, volunteering and attending local art courses and workshops including Metchosin International Summer school of the Arts (MISSA) and Emily Carr University.

She has a tradition of collaborative conceptual showings alongside occasional outdoor installations scheduled to coincide with the seasonal Equinox and Solstice. Her independent shows are held in her gallery space in Chemainus. Additionaly, her works are held in private collections locally, across Canada from Saskatoon to Toronto and internationally including Australia, The UK and the USA.

As an outsider artist I paint intuitively, therapeutically and for fun. My work responds my surroundings and honours my inspirations while I seek my own artistic voice, as I do consider myself still 'emerging'. I am inspired by the concept of abstracting the landscape, or capturing an emotive ambiguous portrait. I began painting with watercolour and have applied those techniques using acrylic paint by created grounds by staining raw canvases, which I have built custom. My paintings are impactful, intriguing, highly personal and ever-evolving.