Carla Stein paints and writes on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Her Nanaimo gallery is open by appointment. She was deeply influenced and nurtured by many hours spent playing and learning among the museums and public art displays of Chicago, Illinois. After immigrating to Canada, she achieved a fine arts diploma from Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. Her career path has involved teaching art to children and adults as both recreation and therapy. She is fascinated by the images words evoke, and finds her poetic endeavors often cross fertilize her visual conceptions.
Stein works in a variety of two dimensional water-based media, including acrylics, watercolors, and inks. Her style incorporates translucent glazes with impressionist sensibilities and surrealist imagery. Stein's work unlocks imagination, sparks stories, and invites viewers to examine the ways humans currently relate to our environment. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and has been juried into numerous exhibitions and shows including Arts on the Avenue, Coast Collective and the Ladysmith Fine Arts Show as well as exhibiting in galleries in Victoria, Vancouver, California and New York. Enthusiastic collectors own her paintings and her images have been published both in print and on-line.
Stein works in a variety of two dimensional water-based media, including acrylics, watercolors, and inks. Her style incorporates translucent glazes with impressionist sensibilities and surrealist imagery. Stein's work unlocks imagination, sparks stories, and invites viewers to examine the ways humans currently relate to our environment. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and has been juried into numerous exhibitions and shows including Arts on the Avenue, Coast Collective and the Ladysmith Fine Arts Show as well as exhibiting in galleries in Victoria, Vancouver, California and New York. Enthusiastic collectors own her paintings and her images have been published both in print and on-line.