Photo courtesy of Michael Buckley
Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are.” ~ Jose Ortega Y Gassett
Artist; bookbinder; muralist; singer; writer; teacher; mentor; advocate; mother; wife; sister; daughter; traveller; emigrant; returner; former lawyer; aspiring librarian; nature lover; collector; dreamer . . .
Welcome to the home page of multi-faceted Canadian artist Dea Fischer. Perhaps best known for crafting beautiful artist's books, Dea spreads her creative time between book arts, collage, photography and large public and community art projects. A 15-year career as a lawyer, trainer, and writer in the UK left little time for art. Making a big life change and returning to Canada brought Dea into the creative life she was born to live. Nowadays, Dea is the conservator for a public library in Alberta and teaches sold out courses in bookbinding, altered books and collage across North America. She has a slow-burning love affair with all things to do with books, collage and low-tech photography. Dea uses her work to meditate on spiritual themes related to our relationship with nature and the natural world, and our internal and external environment. Her work is held in private collections in Canada, the United States, England and Japan. In her off hours, Dea likes to engage her community in acts of random creation.
We live in nature on an almost overwhelming scale in the Canadian Rockies, and it is easy for the eye to be constantly drawn upward to the vaulting horizon line. I use my work to draw the eye to the boot-level ecosystems that are so often stepped over while wandering, awe-struck by the greater vista. I love to light the spark of creativity in others, and teach them the value of interacting meaningfully with our natural and human environments. I am inspired by artists whose work celebrates nature's forms. We are but facilitators to that greater grandeur. ~ Dea Fischer
Throw your dreams into space, like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new home, a new country. ~ Anais Nin
Artist; bookbinder; muralist; singer; writer; teacher; mentor; advocate; mother; wife; sister; daughter; traveller; emigrant; returner; former lawyer; aspiring librarian; nature lover; collector; dreamer . . .
Welcome to the home page of multi-faceted Canadian artist Dea Fischer. Perhaps best known for crafting beautiful artist's books, Dea spreads her creative time between book arts, collage, photography and large public and community art projects. A 15-year career as a lawyer, trainer, and writer in the UK left little time for art. Making a big life change and returning to Canada brought Dea into the creative life she was born to live. Nowadays, Dea is the conservator for a public library in Alberta and teaches sold out courses in bookbinding, altered books and collage across North America. She has a slow-burning love affair with all things to do with books, collage and low-tech photography. Dea uses her work to meditate on spiritual themes related to our relationship with nature and the natural world, and our internal and external environment. Her work is held in private collections in Canada, the United States, England and Japan. In her off hours, Dea likes to engage her community in acts of random creation.
We live in nature on an almost overwhelming scale in the Canadian Rockies, and it is easy for the eye to be constantly drawn upward to the vaulting horizon line. I use my work to draw the eye to the boot-level ecosystems that are so often stepped over while wandering, awe-struck by the greater vista. I love to light the spark of creativity in others, and teach them the value of interacting meaningfully with our natural and human environments. I am inspired by artists whose work celebrates nature's forms. We are but facilitators to that greater grandeur. ~ Dea Fischer
Throw your dreams into space, like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new home, a new country. ~ Anais Nin
