Gloria De Neve

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Phone: (204) 489-9795
Email: g.de_nevestudio@mts.net
 open sign

Showing during tour dates at 164 Langside St. at Sara, with Pat Courtnage during tour dates.
Show, titled "Life's Journeys", at the Wayne Arthur Gallery, 186 Provencher Blvd., from October 4th-28th.

Gloria De Neve was born in Green Bay, Manitoba. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba, followed by studies with the British Craftsman Association in England and Wales.

"It seems that my mission in this lifetime is to grow in the understanding of the nature of the human condition at all levels, the physical, psychological, social and spiritual, as I continue to experience this ‘dance of life’.
My imagery balances the tension in the fragility and vulnerability of the physical body with the quiet timelessness and strength of the human spirit. I use the human body as my imagery, to explore this balance and tension.
There is a spiritual belief that the real purpose of each physical lifetime is indeed for the strengthening of the soul. As each person's lifetime is journeyed, the evolution of the soul is etched in one's own ‘Spirit Shield’, which never dies, which carries on from one lifetime to another and ultimately with the Greater Spirit. The Spirit Shield expresses this melding of the soul with the physical body.
My Raku forms have evolved into expressions of the Spirit Shield, and the search for these higher truths. My work reflects this search within the sculptural and embellishment possibilities found in both Raku clay and hand-painted, manipulated silk fibre. Both mediums offer a similar tactile process of touch and movement."