Paula Nishikawara

Nishikawara’s artistic DNA is authentically rooted in the landscapes and experiences of the Canadian Pacific Northwest. Her colour and composition finds its sources in the beauty of rainforests, mountain glaciers, seascapes, vast skies, and fast flowing rivers. Concepts and form inspired by her growing interest in her lineage.
Paula is an international artist creating humanistic and environmentally focused works using painting, printmaking, installation, photography, sculpture and performance. 

Her ancestral connection with Japan plays an important role in Nishikawara’s creative universe. It is expressed in her extensive use of reinvented traditional Japanese  techniques, and above all a fluent and articulated way of merging traditional and more contemporary discourses in art making. Although her works stand alone, the immersive installations where multiple and broad elements intertwine to create alternate dimensions - are her most favourite constructs that invite reconsideration, and self-inquiry.