What is creativity?

“Creativity is not something where someone who has never worked in that field before suddently gets the Marvelous Idea. Creativity is relating a concept to a particular body of knowledge. The existing body of knowledge is as important as the novel idea. And creative people spend years and years acquiring and refining their knowledge base: be it music, arts, sculptor or design”  Von Stamm(2003)

Therefore Creativity is Non Stop Work and through Associating, Questioning, Observing, Experimenting, and Networking it generates Innovation (INSEAD) or Maybe some Aesthetics.

Illustration: Settings and Stories

Grouped together as settings and stories, as well as ink calligraphy, inkwork, themed and various mediums.

Shirley V. Ting @ 2016 Coming Together Art Show

https://comingtogetherartshow.wordpress.com

SKETCHBOOK JOURNEYS : MY UNBOUND THEME

How many sketchbooks will I still keep – a madness of creating, holding a variety of images and anything that comes to mind.  Painting was the outlet from the rigid structure of elevations and plans in my profession, evolving to parallel themes of escapes – imagined landscapes and narrative facades.

The imagined landscapes are “escapes” for my viewer to find quietude, I chose imagined landscapes (as numerous artists already convey true nature at its best) to place the viewer and create a sense of place.

The narrative facades are “escapes” for the viewer’s possible emotions of various encounters, as one traverses in a colorful life, to explore and then leave behind again.  The facades are non-jarring and simple to view, painted from the onset to be non-intrusive; yet communicate – a witness or truth to a hidden part of one’s emotions, which words alone may not say.

 

Evolving to static inkwork storification of a girl with an umbrella and a boy with a balloon.

Artist Statement

Sketching, drawing, creating places and color are constant passions that fuel my everyday.
My process is organic, drawing while thinking generates a spontaneous manner that strives to capture a quick image in my mind.
The majority of my artwork contains a sense of place with layers of color gradation and strokes of the medium used to convey visual texture.

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Shirley V. Ting is an emerging visual artist in Markham, Ontario grew up in Manila, Philippines and moved to Canada while undergraduating at University of Notre Dame, USA.  Work and studies have allowed her to live a number of months in Hongkong, Rome, and New York before settling in Toronto.

With an architectural background training of freehand sketches, architectural compositional plates, including diversified self taught knowledge of various mediums. Shirley views the fine art of painting as an avenue that allows a continuity of her passion in creating images and conveying them in a formal setting.

Majority of Shirley V. Ting’s work has an ‘East meets West’ essence that have delicate strokes and a presence of whimsy. Some themes are playful “narrative facades” – engaging the audience in thought and conveying observations, or which may stay as a quiet picture.

2015 Feb 8 – May 23 Personal Sacred Landscape – Invitational Show

Personal Sacred Landscape – Invitational Group Show 

David, Gabriela & Shirley – Photo by Event Submitted to Snapd
Curatorial Statement

We humans have such varied views about interpretations of words like Sacred and Landscape. Many themes in this show are reoccurring; Nature, Trees, Paths, Water and Stone. The wonder in the journey, the path, is a common thread.

These external landscapes are something we can experience first hand. When looking at submissions, the ones that resonated as “Sacred” seemed easy to choose, as I felt I was there in the spaces the artists shared with me – the viewer.

As artists we train ourselves to notice everything, but in particular the wonder and beauty in details.

The spiritual journey seems to be that first step in moving out of our own inner dialogue and taking the time to take a good look around us and enjoy the moment of the Now.

For some, the Spirit within the River, an Idea as small as a seed, can hold a Sacredness that is Inside our Own Personal Landscape.

We hoped that you allowed yourself time to view the works in this show, to step into the moments of these artists and see if your own landscapes resonated with these artists’ Personal Sacred Landscape.

Lauren McKinley Renzetti

Artists included: David Allen, Corrie Burrows, Gabriela Casineanu, Jean Galt, Mike Goodge, Connie MacLeod, Peter Marmorek, Nick Nanos, Barb Ringer, Shirley V. Ting

2014.November: Synergies

ABOUT SYNERGIES
Synergy: The interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a
combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
Karma Creative and North York Arts are engaged in a synergetic partnership contributing to the development of
the arts throughout North York, and beyond. The principle of synergy applies to the work of individuals and
collectives. For the artist, the effect “greater than the sum of the parts” comes from interaction of artist with
environment, personal expression and materials. It comes, too, from interactions with other artists.
Synergies represents the work of 16 artists based in and around Karma Creative art studio. We range from young
to old, emerging to established, Canadians by birth and newcomers. Each artist explores her own style and
media, enriched by rich exchanges with other members of the group and by the group’s collective professional
experience in archaeology, architecture, psychology, culture studies, teaching, mindfulness, and yoga. Media
include encaustic, oil and acrylic painting, mixed media, and sculpture. The studio setting offers mutual support
for professional artists and developmental support for novice and emerging artists.

Artists:
Dania Al-Obaidi
Mary AmbroseKaren Chisvin
Bruria Cooperman
Maggie Doswell
Emilia Filicetti
Janice Goldberg
Tania Iraheta
Lisa Johnson
Mazarine Memon
Melissa Tseng


Emerging Artists and Students:
Elizabeth Adamson
Susie Levitsky
Suzy Rosenstein
Caroline Srivastava
Shirley V. Ting