DESTANNE NORRIS
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DESTANNE NORRIS
Destanne was awarded a BFA (Honours) Degree in Painting and Drawing from the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 1987 and a Master of Fine Art Degree by Research at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia in 2009.
Primarily, a landscape-based oil painter, Destanne’s professional art career was established while she lived and painted in the Rocky Mountains in Jasper, Alberta. Primarily an oil painter of landscapes, her practice and work was based upon her direct experiences in nature while on adventures into wilderness and natural environment areas. She was inspired by and very fortunate to have met, and taken a workshop by Doris McCarthy, one of Canada’s highly regarded landscape painters, as well as David Alexander.
As Destanne’s career progressed she partook in workshops and artist-in-residence programs; she became
a juried member of the Alberta Society of Artists; she was represented by three galleries in British Columbia,
Alberta and Saskatchewan.
However, Destanne’s love of a challenge and the journey led her to leave the Rocky Mountains in 2003 to pursue post-graduate research at the University of Tasmania in Australia. One of the four strengths of the University is Wilderness and Natural Environment Studies, where a strong link and concentration exists in the University of Tasmania School of Art. Painted Pools: A Lens into Subjectivity is the title of her research MFA thesis that is an investigation into water as a metaphor for life.
While her sojourn overseas to pursue post-graduate studies was invaluable, it was the call of ‘home’ that brought Destanne back to live in the Okanagan in 2006. Currently she lives on Silver Star Mountain and paints in her studio at the Caetani Cultural Centre in Vernon.
Landscape and place, metaphor and symbol, embodiment and Romanticism are her research interests. An overarching theme in her landscape painting is the mirroring of ‘inscape and landscape’.
Destanne’s paintings have been exhibited internationally and nationally in Public, University, Artist-Run and Commercial Galleries. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in both public and commercial galleries, in addition to various special projects; and her paintings have been purchased by many international private collectors and found in corporate and public collections: the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Penticton Art Gallery, Jasper National Park, the Consulate General Japan, Fining Canada to name a few. In July 2017 Destanne will be having an exhibition of new work in the Caroline Galbraith Gallery at the Vernon Public Art Gallery.
She is represented by Gallery Odin, Silver Star Mountain, BC and Mountain Galleries at The Fairmount in Whistler, BC and Jasper/Banff, AB.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2009 MFA Degree, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
Thesis: painted pools: a lens into subjectivity1987 BFA (Honours) Degree, (Painting and Drawing), University of Victoria, BC
Professional Development Courses and Workshops
2019 Toni Onley Artists’ Project 2019 for Professional and Emerging Artists,
Diana Thorneycroft and Peter von Tiesenhausen, Wells, BC
2019 Pleinair Magazine’s 8th Annual Plein Air Convention & Expo, San
Francisco, CA, USA
2013 Direct Expressive Painting in Acrylic Workshop, Rick Cepella, Lake
Country Art Gallery, Lake Country, BC
2007 Strategies for Teaching Art, Professional Development Workshop,
Gallery Vertigo and the British Columbia Arts Council, Vernon, BC
1998 Brian Ayteo Workshop, River Rock Studio, Cochrane, AB
1997 Art by the Lake, David Alexander, Georgian College, Barrie, ON
1997 Canadian Society of Watercolour Painters, Doris McCarthy, Jasper, AB
Solo Painting Exhibitions
2018 Stellar: Grounded in the Dark Night Sky, Jasper Yellowhead Museum &
Archives, Jasper, AB
2017 Stellar, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC
2011 Selected Works from the Embodied Pool Series, Kalamalka Vertigo,
Okanagan College Kalamalka Campus, Vernon, BC
2008 Selected Paintings and Projected Images – painted pools: a lens
into subjectivity, fina Gallery, University of British Columbia
Okanagan, Kelowna, BC
2005 painted pools: a lens into subjectivity, MFA Graduation
Exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2004 The Feeling of What Happens, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2002 Recent Paintings, The Gallery at JPL, Jasper, AB
2001 The Rockies Larger than Life, The Gallery at JPL, Jasper, AB
2000 New Landscape Paintings, The Gallery at JPL, Jasper, AB
2000 Alberta Passages, Kensington Fine Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
1996 Leah’s Gift, Sunrise Gallery, Jasper, AB
Two – Four Artist Painting Exhibitions
2018 Running with The Ball: Jane Everett, Destanne Norris, Reg Kienast & Amber
Powell, The Drawers - Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
2014 Sotto Voce: Wanda Lock & Destanne Norris, Lake Country Art Gallery, Lake Country ,BC
2011 Ebb & Flow ~ Equilibrium: Brent Bukowski, Judy DesBrisay & Destanne Norris, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC
Group Painting Exhibitions
2018-2019 CORrE, The Drawers - Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
2007-2019 Summer & Winter Exhibition, Gallery Odin, Silver Star Mt., BC
2016 Expressions of Death: Personal Journeys, Alternator Centre for
Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC
2010 Marking Identity, Kelowna Art Gallery Members’ Exhibition, Kelowna
Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2010 10: The Tenth Annual North Okanagan Artists Alternative’s Open
Members’ Exhibition, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, BC
2010 Autumn Art Expo, VISAC Art Gallery, Trail, BC
2009 ROW: Reflections on water, Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art
and History, Nelson, BC
2007 Green, Juried Members’ Exhibition, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, B
2006 Nucleus, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, BC
2004 CAST Annual Members’ Exhibition, Hobart, Australia
2004 Propinquity and Distance, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2002 Converging Landscapes, Leighton Foundation, Calgary, AB
2001 Members’ Exhibition, SA Public Art Gallery, Salmon Arm, BC
2000 In the Artist’s Eye: Mount Alberta, Jasper Museum, Jasper, AB
1999 Reflections of Jasper National Park, Jasper Museum, Jasper, AB
1998 Members’ Exhibition, SA Public Art Gallery, Salmon Arm, BC
1995 Wildlife, Landscapes and Wildflowers, Jasper Museum, Jasper, AB
Travelling Exhibition
2001-2003 Blooming Prairie, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition
Juried Exhibition from the Alberta Society of Artists
Produced by the Edmonton Art Gallery
Additional Professional Art Experience
Planning and implementing exhibition submissions, and coordination and installation of exhibitions
- 2008 Selected Paintings and Projected Images: painted pools: a lens into subjectivity, fina Gallery, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC
- 2004 The Feeling of What Happens, Entrepot Gallery, University of Tasmania, Australia
- 1999 Reflections of Jasper National Park, Jasper Museum, Jasper, AB
- 1995 Leah’s Gift, Sunrise Gallery, Jasper, AB
2010 Painting collection installation in private residence
2009 Painting collection installation in private residence
1990 Designed and marketed notepaper and t-shirts
1988 Co-designed and painted back-drop for stage for the Jasper Folk Festival
1987 Glass cutter for 1988 Winter Olympic gift project
1985 Worked co-operatively with an MFA student to illustrate 400 pictures for a clinical test of language
development for pre-school children
1984 Collaboration with Professor of Art Education, University of Victoria on
Heritage Mural Project for elementary school children
For more information on Destanne Norris's Professional Experiences please contact Gallery Odin