Joel Mara

Event Description

Joel Mara developed a special appreciation for nature during his childhood growing up in Campbell River on Vancouver Island. His appreciation and fascination for the West Coast has never left him and he now expresses these experiences on canvas. Aiming to create a feeling of “being there”, Joel shapes and paints to merely suggest an image, it is up to the viewer’s eye to fill in the details. By striving to make his paintings a participatory experience every viewer has the ability to see something different. Joel’s hope is that one will feel a little bit of that gusty wind or the silence of the forest when viewing one of his paintings.