TianaKaczorFineArts

I've been making art and getting compliments on it ever since grade 1 when we had handmade storybooks where we wrote on the side with lined paper, and drew a picture on the blank paper side. My teacher would send me off down the hall to show the principal or the librarian my "fabulous drawings". Throughout school I continued to excel in art so it only made sense to go on to a college art program.

I've never been an artist who concentrates only on one style or medium, and I have struggled with people who have told me to be more "focused" and pick "one style" to be mine. That's just not me. I like variety. I like using different materials and methods. I like different topics. And that's why I became a teacher too, because I can do many different art techniques.

The love of variety has allowed me to do projects over the last 20 years as diverse as creating a found object beach sculpture in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC for Artropolis '93, to numerous private commissions for portraits, to painting a 7 foot eagle sculpture with over 300 designs from children for the BC Lions Society for Children with Disabilities. (I received the Peoples Choice Award for that one!)

I love to share my knowledge with others and have enjoyed teaching in the public and private school systems, community centres, and recently I worked with clients in mental health and addictions programs to create an exhibition of their photographs which are now permanently hanging in Vancouver Coastal Health offices.

By opening my Etsy store I am combining my love of art with my love of old fashioned letter writing. In this age of email I still enjoy writing letters and sending parcels by "snail mail". Selling my art on Etsy will allow me to keep the postal carriers and pony express riders busy, as well as allowing a wider world to have the chance to see and purchase my creations.

Thanks for reading. Enjoy my art. Have a great day!