Alanna Peters
Artist member since 2018
Toronto , Ontario
Alanna Peters was born in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto. She earned an Honours BA for Fine Arts from McMaster University (2001) and a BEd for Arts Based Learning from Queen's University (2005).
A recognized artist, her work is found in private and public collections in Canada, the United States, France, Germany and Uganda.
Artist statement:
As a contemporary figurative artist, Alanna works with oil on wood panel. Her style is the intersection between realism and painterly. Alanna is drawn to painting the human form as a way of connecting with the viewer on an emotional and deeply human experience. In recent works the figures have a fragile weightlessness paused in time and in movement. The works are calming and tranquil. Colours and contrast interact with each other and the paintings are built up through multiple thin layers of paint. Alanna has a desire to create the illusion of transparency through brushstrokes.