Everybody's got a Story: On the Canvas

Feb 27, 2016
2 min read

Welcome to Everybody’s got a Story.

For this month’s segment, I sat down with local Brantford Artist, Cassandra Chambers, to find out more about her story. I first came across Cassandra’s work on her Facebook page about a year ago. Her impressionist works of animals, scenery, and the universe seemed to come alive in each stroke; so I was quite excited to be able to meet the woman behind the paintings.

Chambers is an Artist with a mission and that mission’s core value is based on feelings: helping with her own, creating them within her work, and helping others better cope with their own. Believing that you don’t have to be the tortured artist, Chambers believes that you can use it to help heal yourself and can create with positivity just as successfully.

Chambers recalled to me that her story with painting began young, but attributed the healing effects it had on her and discovering her passion for it, as two important initial steps to where she is today. Turning to artistic and creative projects as a way to express herself, she became more serious about the endeavour after the passing of an Aunt who had also painted.

Through the years of exploring the arts, her work and self has evolved. Chambers describes her work now as capturing the feeling of the subject rather than reproducing what it looks like. The paintings embody movement, whimsical qualities and evoke feelings. Perhaps one of the reasons why she has been so sought out to create tribute and memorial pieces of people’s pets, as she is able to emotionally connect to the essence of them.

Chambers hopes to continue to try new techniques and subjects, as well as to continue her work towards a career in Art Therapy. She wants to share the therapeutic effects that entering the creative state can have with others as much as she can. I think that the vastness felt in this night’s sky representation has healing effects of it’s own; she's spreading positivty through her work.

Chambers has participated in Art Therapy classes and Art shows that contribute donations to charities like the SPCA. Her artwork can be purchased at The Starving Artist Gallery in Brantford as well as on Fine Art America’s website. ( http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/cassandra-chambers.html ) You can follow Cassandra on her Facebook page: Cassandra Chambers Art.

I would like to thank Cassandra for taking the time to talk with me about her story and wish her all the success with her future projects. Join me next month as we explore another soul with another story.