Using a combination of natural and synthetic materials, my mixed-media panels represent a metaphor for the hybrid quality of the natural world. Artist Statement, Vanitas by the Sea / Vanitas par la mer Safran de Niverville lives and maintains a studio in Riverview, NB. As a cultural advocate, she regularly takes part in professional peer juries, maintains membership in cultural organizations and has taught visual arts at the Université de Moncton. Safran de Niverville has participated in artist residencies and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. She has also exhibited her drawings and paintings in Ontario, Manitoba, Iceland and the USA. Nominated for the 2018 Prix Éloizes in visual arts, Safran de Niverville has shown her work widely in Atlantic Canada since the late 1970s. Honors include the Alumni Award for the most progress during the MFA program and the Sheila Hugh MacKay Master of Fine Arts Scholarship. Safran de Niverville holds a Master of Fine Arts degree (2014) from the Lesley University College of Art and Design (formerly the Art Institute of Boston, Cambridge, MA). Known primarily as a landscape painter, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Distinction from Mount Allison University (1977), Sackville, NB. Barbara Safran de Niverville’s large format paintings and low relief panels explore the tension between beauty, natural forces and the effects of technology, a domain between wilderness and civilization.
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