Featured Artists September 2022 - Kylee Turunen and Alana Godin

BIOs

Kylee is a Canadian artist, born and raised in Ontario and currently living in Port Alberni, British Columbia. She shows her work in a number of galleries around Vancouver Island. Growing up with the constant exposure to her artist father, she picked up an appreciation and excitement for creating art. She completed the Fine Art program at Toronto's Centennial College in 2009. Since then, she has continued to develop her skills as a fine artist working primarily in acrylic and oil paint. Kylee’s work has primarily been focused on nature, stylistically ranging from realistic landscapes to more abstract paintings. She works with colour and form, often playing with opposites like curves and straight edges, or light and dark tones to create contrast within her work. Painting abstracted art allows her to escape from reality, creating something completely original from a place only in her mind. While she enjoys the freedom of expression involved in this process, it also brings her great joy to recreate the beauty that surrounds her using representational intricacy within her landscape paintings.

Although always creative to the core, Alana is somewhat new to the fine art world. Spending the past couple of decades as an Interior Designer, Alana discovered her hidden talent for painting during the 2020 pandemic quarantine. Experimenting first with watercolours, she quickly moved into the richer hues of acrylic paints and hasn’t looked back, exploring stirring landscapes and imagery inspired by the space between the elements of earth, light & life giving WATER. Alana is a West Coast native, having raised her children on the Lower Mainland and she now resides on the rolling mountainside of Departure Bay, Nanaimo, tucked beneath the peaked roof of a newly renovated A-frame home. On any given day, Alana can be found teasing a new canvas to life in her studio that faces southern skies or plying the beaches of the Salish Sea for inspiration, enjoying the endless laughter of the surf..