Tricia Sellmer is an established contemporary Canadian artist whose work is held in public and private collections from Vancouver to Toronto, New York to Berlin, Spain to South Africa, and all places in between. Additionally, Tricia has hand-printed books in both the Canadian National Library and Archives in Ottawa, Ontario, and the Musee Municipal d’Art et d’Historie de Colombes in Paris, France.
She is most known for her large-scale oil, acrylic, and multi-media paintings. Bold, vibrant, and colourful, Tricia’s exalted florals and majestic abstracts illustrate movement, and textural expression. Tricia probes the personal and veiled subtleties of the garden and the shifting patterns of the landscape. She likes to connect the dots and blur the boundaries between genres. Tricia’s style is a confluence of music and emotion meeting canvas.
Tricia has travelled the world on research, residencies, and lecturing expeditions. She has exhibited solo and collaboratively throughout British Columbia, Canada, North America, New York, Boston, Berlin, London, Hong Kong, and Italy.
As an independent working artist, Tricia also writes, lectures and curates projects and exhibitions. Tricia is currently living and working in Kamloops, British Columbia Canada. She can be found working or teaching from her studio inside Casa Décor.
Works available from previous series.
Imaginary search for the afterlife.
And the Shadows Follow Me reference the last six paintings completed in my studio by the river.
Carry On is part of a small grouping of abstract paintings which I painted when I first moved into the studio on Beaton road.
Floating in the Garden is a grouping of works from the Unchained Melodies series which was completed for an exhibition in the garden of the Privato Winery in 2018.
I Rise Up is a series of garden images remembered from my childhood.
Matters of the Heart is a triptych and reflects the strength of the colour red.
Oxygen for the Human Spirit is a small series that speaks to the notion of connection. The series will continue to grow
Remembered Moments is a collection of tangled gardens.
Scales of Justice references the search for justice.
Shadow Abstractions is a collection of abstract paintings.
Small landscapes on wooden panels.
Up Where You Belong grew out of a commission.
You Brought Me the Moon But (You) Did not Stay is a grouping of twelve paintings that when mounted together becomes a whole.
Sleep well my precious one. You gave all you could give and then even more. Without you I would not have become me. Thank you.