Sonya Iwasiuk
Sonya is a self-taught mixed media artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She spent her childhood in small towns and on farms in Northern Alberta.
Iconic Canadian skies on endless fields pocked with deserted homesteads and thin woodlands developed her deep love for both nature and the abandoned. As a child, she and her dog would journey along dirt roads and train tracks and fields and forests in search of adventure, empty farms and the small treasures she would surely find there. Armed with her faded rucksack, rope, and a hammer, Sonya would unearth jewels of old jars, worn egg shiners, wooden handles made smooth by toil and tractor parts buried like fossil bones in the dust of topsoil. She discovered every abandoned farm was a place of memory, a history of the forgotten lives of the people who once lived there.
Still an avid explorer, artist, and storyteller, it is Sonya’s inspiration to give sense, scope, and remembrance to the lives of these ancestors and originators of the Canadian pioneering spirit. She captures the pureness and beauty or harshness and dark realities of nature, places, people and things that are often never seen or overlooked.
Iconic Canadian skies on endless fields pocked with deserted homesteads and thin woodlands developed her deep love for both nature and the abandoned. As a child, she and her dog would journey along dirt roads and train tracks and fields and forests in search of adventure, empty farms and the small treasures she would surely find there. Armed with her faded rucksack, rope, and a hammer, Sonya would unearth jewels of old jars, worn egg shiners, wooden handles made smooth by toil and tractor parts buried like fossil bones in the dust of topsoil. She discovered every abandoned farm was a place of memory, a history of the forgotten lives of the people who once lived there.
Still an avid explorer, artist, and storyteller, it is Sonya’s inspiration to give sense, scope, and remembrance to the lives of these ancestors and originators of the Canadian pioneering spirit. She captures the pureness and beauty or harshness and dark realities of nature, places, people and things that are often never seen or overlooked.
"The Old Home"
Mixed Media on Hand-Rusted Steel |
"A-Gaze-Away"
Mixed Media on Hand-Rusted Steel |
"Meet Me in the Barn"
Mixed Media on Hand-Rusted Steel |
