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Ottawa artist says 'obsession' keeps her painting

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As part of the demonstrate, Coplan said her latest work is being featured – including a in holy matrimony of two by four wood pieces that resemble canoe paddles and spears that salutation visitors into the doorway of the gallery.

This boat oar-spear theme is also reflected in two drawings she has featured at the disclose.

For Coplan, the subjects she paints become an obsession, and there’s a cerebral component that she can’t describe.

“I get interested either in inescapable materials, certain forms, ideas, or tangible images like animals or boats. They grab a suspend b continue of me, for some reason or another,” she said. “I get obsessed and start working them out in drawings.”

Coplan comes from a one's nearest of artists, and said she learned to appreciate it first. After receiving an undergraduate considerably in anthropology from McGill University, she started sketching in her old 20s.

“I was into things that young 21-year-olds are into,” she said. “I was looking for import. So I tried my hand at sketching, and I was hooked.”

Source: Your Ottawa Region