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Niina CHEBRY

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Niina Chebry is recognised for her nature based paintings. Her childhood spent under vast prairie skies of rural Alberta, she now lives in Vancouver – where the shift to coastal flora and fauna seep into her compositions. While her work is found in private and public collections internationally Niina is part of a vibrant arts community in East Vancouver where she also instructs art workshops. Niina Chebry carves the paint to create icebergs in a state somewhere between the tranquil and the tempest. There is a sense of brooding - a silent moment before an eventual storm. These sculptural ice forms, sometimes transparent, sometimes crumbling, are set adrift on the open sea. They cast long reflections and shadows of some timeless moment of day and night. Powerful forces of nature and the fragility of the planet seem to rest on these tilting masses. Here the iceberg has become a metaphor, suggesting isolation, impermanence and the human condition.