![]() “We’re not claiming what Autumn has done is due to some mind-blowing talent,” Doug said. There are, however, several accomplished and collected painters in Doug’s family: Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932), George de Forest (1855-1941) and Roy de Forest (1930-2007), who was part of California’s “funk art” movement. Neither of her parents is a visual artist Doug is a musician, Katherine an actress. Her paintings bring to mind the work of masters like Picasso, Warhol, Dali and Matisse. Prolific and versatile, she has produced a range of work representing multiple styles: abstract impressionism, surrealism and pop art. In about one year’s time, Autumn de Forest, who turns 9 this month, has become one of the art world’s youngest and biggest stars. “I do it every day,” Autumn said about painting. (Autumn is slightly taller than 4-foot-2 and weighs slightly less than 50 pounds.) Doug built her a sort of wooden bridge so she can sit on it and paint the middle of the canvas. In fact, Autumn’s canvases are now so large - typically 4 by 6 feet - that she has to paint them on the floor. ![]() Autumn’s parents bought her museum-quality paints and canvases “to see what would happen,” Doug said, “and in very short order a prolific kind of blossoming happened, and the canvases started getting bigger and bigger.” She is deeply grateful and considers herself among the blessed of the blessed.“Elephant,” it turned out, was not a fluke. ![]() From her studio, she overlooks a sweeping expanse of ocean, mountains, and sky. Now, between journeys to explore, show, teach, and share inspiration worldwide, Autumn Skye lives and paints in her home on the Northern Sunshine Coast of BC. In addition, family road-trips and new experiences nurtured a curious and creative imagination, and she was always encouraged and supported to express herself artistically. Spending her youth within these incredible landscapes, she developed a deep wonder for the magic and richness of nature. Her family gradually moved west, with her father settling in the Rocky Mountains and her mother in the temperate rain-forests of the BC Coast. Artists are map-makers, and those maps can help guide humanity forward into new and positive ways of seeing and being.Īnd so, I offer each of my paintings as a mirror a reminder of our pure and good human heart,Īutumn Skye was born in 1983 in Nova Scotia, on a maple syrup and blueberry farm on the Parsborro Shore. We have an opportunity to transmute the shadow and pain that we witness in the world around us into visions of wholeness. I believe that the role of the artist is especially crucial at this challenging and exciting time, while the world is at the precipice of momentous change. Each canvas takes me on a journey, and as my paintbrush follows, I am always led back to my centre. ![]() Painting is my stillness and my rhythm, my teacher and my lover, and it never ceases to surprise and amaze me. I realize the art is not born from me, but through me, and in this understanding I am both humbled and empowered. ![]() With every brushstroke, I witness beings come to life and worlds unfold before me. Knowing this, I strive to move beyond my mind, and get out of the way to allow that grace to come through. In any creative expression, there is a profound voice that speaks through us when we release judgment during the process. Painting has taken me to distant lands around the world, and to the furthest reaches of my innermost heart and imagination. As soon as I was old enough to hold a paintbrush in my hand, I began making art, and I have barely put the brush down since. "For as long as I can remember, I knew my mission was to share inspiration. ![]()
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