Gabriela Hirt Art

Impressions from my (still very clean🤓) studio/room .berlin in the lively Neukölln neighbourhood of Berlin.

I am super excited to begin my three-months artist residency here at SomoS Kunstraum together with poet , multidisciplinary artist .indus, visual artist and textile artist

Stay tuned for updates on my multidisciplinary and very experimental project…..hint: there are 💃💃 involved 🤫🤩

Wishing you and all beings peace, health and happiness for 2024! Thank you for all your interest and love for my art — your support means a lot to me.

Some new sketches reflecting on family relationships. The holidays can be tricky being together with our most beloved people who sometimes can be the ones causing us the most pain.

May you experience many joyful and peaceful moments during this holiday season and find time to do what is nourishing to you🌟🕯️

Some new sketches reflecting on family relationships. The holidays can be tricky being together with our most beloved people who sometimes can be the ones causing us the most pain.

May you experience many joyful and peaceful moments during this holiday season and find time to do what is nourishing to you🌟🕯️

Thank you everybody who came to my Open Studio!!! It was wonderful to catch up with old friends, say hello to new ones and share my art with you. I am feeling very grateful for your support of my work🙏💝

And look how festive my sold painting “Body of Water” looks in this picture I took of one of my lovely collectors when she picked it up this weekend ✨🌟

By special request I made a few more tiny greetings — these were popular inspirational original little cards with encouraging words I painted lots of during the first year of the Pandemic.

Bloom! ….and have a joyful and relaxing weekend🕯️🕯️🕯️🫶🏻

New paintings. How many figures do you see in #1 & #2?

Acrylic and wax crayon on paper 8x11in/20x28cm

Coming Soon🎉🎉 my HOLIDAY STUDIO BLOWOUT SALE🎅🤩🤶
“Words to Girl” acrylic&charcoal on canvas, 48x36in/122x91cm
available for $550
When: Next Saturday, Dec 9
Time: 11-4pm
Where: 950 Falkland Road, Victoria

Paintings need to go to make room in my studio —> up to 50% off!!

“Words to Girl” acrylic&charcoal on canvas, 48x36in/122x91cm
available for $550 (reduced from $1100)

“Carved” 30x22in/76x56cm, custom framed $800

“Pause Button Please” Collage, framed, 8x8in/

“Novembergirl”, 50x36in/126x91cm, custom framed $900 (reduced from 1800)

“Falling Star” 10x6.5in/25x16cm, acrylic and pastel mounted on wood panel, $150 (reduced from $250)

“Baggage” diptych, plaster and acrylic on wood, 30x48in/76x122cm, $800 (reduced from $1170)

“Slippery Slope” 24x24in/61x61cm, $250 (off 50%)

🎉🎉🥳Join me next Saturday, Dec 9 from 11 -4pm for my Holiday Studio Blowout Sale.

Yes, art must go at a discount to make space in my studio before I am going to Europe in January for an interdisciplinary art project in Berlin Kreuzberg for three months plus (more details, soon!).

Selected paintings will be discounted up to 50%! If you are not in Victoria let me know you are interested and I happily give you a quote also for shipping (got access to top rates).

Come by for tea 🫖☕️ & cookies 🍪🍪and a visit next Saturday✅

SALE THIS DAY ONLY — reserve your time or just drop in🤩🎉

Looking forward to seeing you❣️🫶🏻

Details for the paintings on offer in the post carousel:
“Bordeaux”, 8x8in/20.3cm, acrylic and pastel on wood, $100
“Mélange Matisse”, 24x12in/61x30cm, acrylic on canvas, $300
“Swing Sisters”, 30x15in/76x38cm, acrylic on canvas $400 (reduced from $700)
“Tree Mother’s Embrace”, 24x24in/61x61cm, acrylic on canvas $600 (reduced from $900)
“Mykonos Twirl” (left) & “Pireas Pirouette” 20x10in/51x25cm each, acrylic on canvas $250 each (reduced from $400)
“Shake it Up”, 12x12in/30x30cm, acrylic on canvas $200 (reduced from $250)
“Flora’s Garden” Hommage to Flora Bowley, 24x36in/61x91cm, acrylic on canvas $800 (reduced from $1100)
“Endless Rooms of Strawberries”, 49x38in/124x97cm, acrylic and charcoal on paper mounted on wood, $600 (reduced from $1400)
“Powerplay”, 40x19.5in/102x50cm, acrylic on paper, mounted on wood, custom framed $800 (reduced from $980)
“Queen of Pink”, 24x18in/61x46cm, acrylic and wax crayon on canvas, $400 (reduced from $700)

Let me know if you want to see what else is in my sales box and I’ll send photos and details exclusively to your inbox!

So happy to be back in my Victoria studio!

Have a great weekend everybody near and far🍁🩷

Offering a Playful Painting workshop to some of the retreatants and nuns of Plum Village France was as much joy for me receiving as it was giving.
There is also a photo of me shovelling compost at the Happy Farm and of the beautiful grounds.

“Aimlessness, nonattainment, is a wonderful practice.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

Offering a Playful Painting workshop to some of the retreatants and nuns of was as much joy for me receiving as it was giving.

“Aimlessness, nonattainment, is a wonderful practice.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

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‚Checking Out‘ (40x60in/102x152cm) Private Collection

I was very pleased when this painting from my 2020 ‘Inside Out’ collection sold through the Rental and Sales program two years ago. But where it went and who the buyer was stayed a secret to me.

Well, the mystery got solved at this year’s TD Art Gallery Paint In when a very nice man cycled up the hill and exuberantly introduced himself to me as a happy collector of my work. He searched out my booth to meet me, look at my new work and show me a 📸of ‘Checking Out’ on the wall of his Victoria house.

I felt quite touched by his enthusiasm to connect; it is always a great treat to know where a piece of art finds its permanent home and what it means to the people living with it💚💛😻

“Westcoast Flavour” got damaged a little during transport to it’s new forever home so Me had to cycle there 🚴‍♀️ and do some on site repairs — complete with prosecco offering 🥂 and licks from puppy “Daisy”🐶

Acrylic on canvas, 60x48in/152x122cm

SOLD — ‘Lizard Man’ turned out to be the most inquired about painting at the recent Paint-In. So when it sold I wasn’t too surprised, despite it being my least recent painting on display.

People were curious about the inspiration behind it — which by the way is not reflected in the title. (My daughter came up with that one spontaneously when she first laid eyes on the piece🤣).

Like a lot of my work ‘Lizard Man’ is about humans relating to each other and the many ways we undermine meaningful connection, often unintentionally, as we do for instance by habitually turning to our devices even when loved ones are close.

It looks great on the wall of this Victoria condo. Thankful to the collectors for purchasing and then sending this pic right away🙏👌🤓

The third photo is showing ‘Lizard Man’ in 2020

Acrylic and oil pastel on wood 28x22in/71x56cm

Fabulous time at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Paint-In yesterday 😎👍☀️

Thank you all for stopping in and giving my art so much ❤️❤️❤️ I am on a bit of a high right now🤩

A fun little painting I did in chalk pastel for a child’s room👶🏼It’s titled ‘Elefants like flowers, too’🐘🌷

Victoria peeps check out this and other new works this Saturday at the You’ll find me at booth #176 on the corner of Moss Street and Rockland Avenue. There will be an interactive sculpture and you can enter a draw to win a set of my most popular art cards!!🤩🥳🍀

SOLD — ‘Gumboot Gambol’ (acrylic on canvas, 14x11in) went to a collector’s home in Estero, Florida.

I have a new shipping partner who finds me the best rates for worldwide shipping. They have been fast and reliable for the five packages I have sent in recent weeks. And very good prices!

If you are interested in having one of my paintings shipped to you I can now give you a quote in seconds 📦👍

What is Beauty?

I asked myself this in a new context after having a eureka moment on my bike yesterday.

Cycling by a property where a house has recently been demolished, I noticed a stand of bright red flowers in the far end of the yard against the backdrop of dark earth and dots of green grass. It bewildered me to see them in this quantity, this luster and in this location. Something was off.

“Jeez!” my mind literally exclaimed, “these ain’t flowers, it’s construction gear!” You must think, how can she mistake orange mesh plastic fence used to control traffic around temporary hazards lying spread out on the ground for blooming flowers???!!

But this isn’t where I am going. Remarkable to me is not my eyesight limitations. I am fascinated by how this realization did a 180 on my feelings. From joy to disappointment, from appreciation to dislike in milliseconds!

The same visual, yet two different stories completely changing my experience profoundly! So does that mean there is no factual objective beauty?

Is it simply based on the narrative our minds create around a look or and object?

Can I make myself find the construction fence attractive and release happy endorphins that way?

Is every phenomenon we encounter essentially beautiful if I only meet it without prejudice?

Is beauty a question of the individual mind’s storytelling or is there an evolutionary inheritance of what feels soothing, calming and joyful to us humans — particularly when it comes to the perception of environmental beauty?

I am being nerdy, I know, but this fascinates me. Wanna hear the questions popping up in your head — or answers you might have to my questions….Much appreciate everybody’s wisdom!

It is always such a treat to receive pics of my paintings from collectors🏠🤩🙏

This one is a large abstract from an earlier collection titled ‘Westcoast Flavour’ (48x60in/122x152cm). Doesn’t it look nice in this elegant Westcoast home?!?

Today is National Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a good day to share with you some of the books by Indigenous authors I have been reading in the past 24 months while working on my collection.

I can recommend each and every one of them for different reasons, but if there would be only one every non-Aboriginal Canadian should read, I believe it is the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Summary. I find the impact of learning about the historic context of the residential school system, indigenous suffering and colonial mindset most comprehensive . And the report is very accessible in the sense that it is written in plain language with many first-person stories by witnesses and survivors.

It made me aware of some eurocentric views I myself carried with me when I immigrated 25 years ago and how to transform them.

What indigenous authors are you reading? Would love to get your recommendations!

Can you tell that these two paintings were inspired by (sailing) trips in the Cyclades Islands in Greece?

They are titled “Mykonos Twirl” and “Pireas Pirouette” and are part of my Dance On! Painting collection available online until June 9 at Artwrk

Both are acrylic on canvas, 20x10in/51x25cm. Hop over to https://www.artwrk.ca/gabriela-hirt

“Forest Dancer” is part of my Dance On! painting collection available Artwrk https://www.artwrk.ca/gabriela-hirt

Acrylic on canvas, 36x24in, 91x61cm

Swipe until the end to see the inspiration to this new painting…Did you guess right???

My work usually is not derived from outside imagery, but this one definitely very much so. It is a riff on Henry Matisse’s beautiful painting “La Danse” from 1910. I admire Matisse’s work and also his resilience in the face of illness: when his body did not allow him to paint anymore he kept creating by doing cut outs which he arranged into paper collages.

I wanted to make the homage obvious in the title, that’s why I named it “Mélange Matisse” (acrylic on canvas, 24x12x1.5in, available at Artwrk https://www.artwrk.ca/gabriela-hirt

SOLD - “Gumboot Gambol” is going to a new home in Florida💃🏼

Get your funky Dance On! piece at Artwrk https://www.artwrk.ca/gabriela-hirt

Find out more about my motivation to create ‘Dance On’💃🤓
How we need to deliberately make time for the things that bring us joy in order to be more resilient, make the world a happier place and be able to face the great challenges facing our time, including climate change and human conflict. 🌲🤗🌍

The painting collection is available .ca until June 9,2023. Click link in my bio or go to Artwrk.ca to browse my art. While there, make sure to check out the wonderful series of ‘Wild Flowers’ by Ontario artist John Auger

Find out more about my motivation to create ‘Dance On’💃🤓 How we need to deliberately make time for the things that bring us joy in order to be more resilient, make the world a happier place and be able to face the great challenges facing our time, including climate change and human conflict. 🌲🤗🌍 The painting collection is available @artwrk.ca until June 9,2023. Click link in my bio or go to Artwrk.ca to browse my art. While there, make sure to check out the wonderful series of ‘Wild Flowers’ by Ontario artist John Auger @canadianabstract

🌲🤩”Hanging with the Forest People” sold in the Presale .ca 💃🙏

The show opened today and you can browse from the comfort of your home by clicking here: https://www.artwrk.ca/gabriela-hirt

Painting number 2 in this post — it’s titled “Tree Mother’s Embrace” — is still available. Both are acrylic on canvas, the size is 24x24in

Enjoy! And let me know if Dance On! gets your toes tapping…

💃🏼My new collection coming to .ca this Friday, May 26