Artists - Lisa Hebden
Jeweler and painter Lisa Hebden was born and raised in Victoria BC. She earned two degrees, in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax. She is a 2003 recipient of a Painting on the Edge Award. She has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout BC, notably at Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George, the Wells Historical Art Museum in Wells, and at Victoria’s Gallery at the Mac. She designed her own solo show to coincide with the 2004 Vancouver Fringe Festival. Her work has been featured in International Artist, Applied Arts Magazine, Art Avenue, Ceramics Art & Perception, The Vancouver Sun, The Halifax Herald, the Claremont Review, Victoria News, and she was spotlighted on The New VI. She is also a published poet. Her paintings can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Australia.
The Jewellery
I'm primarily a painter and am fascinated by colour, so I've created jewellery that reflects that interest. The Froot beads are made from coloured polymer clay. The clay comes in basic colours, which I mix together by hand to create new, more subtle colours. Each bead is rolled by hand and baked. The beads are waterproof and fade proof. Because of their matte finish, the beads themselves can be scratched. The beads can be cleaned with water, soap, or very fine sandpaper (600) for stubborn scratches.
The Beach Paintings
The Beach Paintings are about transitions, dreaming, nostalgia. I am interested in the impermanence of the moment and that peculiar space where we explore and play with the transition between land and water. Beaches are places of arrival and departure, as well as places of leisure. The beach is a space for reflection as we separate ourselves from our routines of work. People go to the beach to just be at the beach.
The idea of “just being” is the essence of my work, I combine imagery derived from my drawings, photographs, magazine clippings and ephemera to develop scenes that could exist in the real world, but which have an otherworldliness to them. The irregularities that occur in the resulting figures further evoke a sense of transition. The luminosity of each moment is made more potent by the knowledge that it is fleeting. I like the idea that an apparently light scene has an indefinable, darker side to it.
