Sophie Edell
About
Sophie Edell is a visual artist residing in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada. Edell grew up in Toronto, and moved to Montreal in 2007 to attend art school at Concordia University. Since her graduation in 2011, Edell has explored many artistic avenues from drawing and painting, to textiles and design. She returned with focus to her love of painting in the summer of 2020 after a move from the city to a more rural setting.
Edell’s current body of work aims to explore the way our interactions with our surroundings tell a story, and how our tendencies and aesthetics create a fingerprint of our presence. The physical act of painting is of great importance in each piece, as Edell plays with layering, colours, and composition to encourage the participation of the medium in the finished work.
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Person
When I was studying art in university, I was given an assignment where I had to create a painting in the style of another artist. I chose Daniel Richter from the list offered to us, and exploring his paintings in that way had a huge impact on the development of my personal style of painting.
Place
In 2020 I moved into a very small house in a small town in Quebec called Compton, and it was there during the peak of the pandemic that I developed the style of painting that I create now.
Object
Flowers have had a huge effect on my work, from including them in still lifes to exploring their colours and movement in more abstract paintings. They offer a quality of painterly freedom that I enjoy incorporating into my pieces when I can.
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