Gust Gallery - Fine Arts

My appreciation of art and my passion for the creative process have been enjoyable constancies throughout my life. Even as a young girl growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, I enjoyed expressing my love of colour and form on paper and canvas. As a natural consequence of my devotion to art, I completed my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Manitoba in 1987. I also received a diploma in Advertising Art from Winnipeg's Red River College in 1991. Thereafter, I moved to Calgary, Alberta and embarked on a career in graphic design. While my professional pursuits have flourished, my affinity for fine art has never waned. In 2014 I decided to move from my graphic design career to painting full time. Since then I have created a portfolio of work that I am excited to display and show. For me, the process of creating a work is as important as the finished piece. Painting is a sentient experience and when I immerse myself in a canvas I allow all my senses to express themselves. As such, my paintings have a certain whimsical style that seek to captivate the senses of the viewer. It is my intention to convey beauty in a multi-sensory fashion. My paintings are acrylic and oil on canvas and intended to portray a complete visual, emotional, and tactile experience. When I'm exploring abstract impressionism in large canvases or small, my foremost consideration is the colourful expression of the beauty I perceive in my subjects.

The paintings by Canadian artist, Cecile Albi, are the result of her search for meaning and understanding of her natural environment. Her picture plane supports the 'beautiful' yet reflects the unstable and unpredictable traits of nature. Throughout an in-depth and lifelong relationship with visual art Albi has created a visual language with nature, herself and the viewer. Skillfully utilizing compositional elements, Albi intuitively follows Nature's lead through the use of colour, shape and movement. She plays with the acts of assembling and dismantling by implementing order and surrendering to spontaneity. Echoing and respecting the offerings made by the Impressionists, Cubists and Abstract Expressionists, Cecile Albi brings her own fresh unrestrained mark to the Contemporary.

Cecile Albi's works of art, from the serene to the awe inspiring, aesthetically stimulate curiosity for the mind and emotion for the spirit.