Artist’s statement

I am absolutely passionate about colour and gesture. While a love for colour was clearly innate, dating back to my earliest memories, my feeling for gesture developed from countless hours of life drawing, and through years of professional work in animation. My paintings combine these key elements, with the gestural strokes and lively colours expressing my joy and spontaneous reaction to the subject.

Artist’s Bio

Jodi Shuster studied fine arts at Banff School of Fine Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Concordia University in Montreal. She also studied animation at Sheridan College and worked for two decades on children’s animation, short and feature length films and commercials in Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco and Israel. She has been painting full time since 2002 with her first solo show in 2004. She is represented in Toronto by Gallery 133, Canvas Gallery and Tracey Capes Fine Arts and in Montreal by the Shayne Gallery.