"Gaia's Garden" - Peggy Grigor, featured online artist at Rainforest Arts

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Thursday, June 25th, 2020

Gaia’s Garden an inspiring place to be

Artists are so intensely focused on their works, that they are usually unaware of how the art of becoming an artist is part of the process. About a year ago, though, a shift from shaping clay mostly on a potter's wheel, to sculpting clay into representational forms, working it on a bench, has brought that aspect of her art to the fore.

“I started to get interested in doing faces and images of humans,” she said. And from there, the inspiration to do a series representing Gaia emerged. “It just came to me, let’s do Gaia, who is Mother Earth, because she needs someone to pay attention to her now,” Grigor recalled.

At the end of the day, she hopes all that effort will change her world. “What I envision is putting the sculptures in the garden, and creating an experience of garden tours with the sculptures of Gaia around.”

Visitors can take a virtual tour of “Gaia’s Garden” at rainforestarts.ca starting May 1. Peggy will also be hosting a live online Q&A & demo from her studio in Saltair on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 11 am. Registration can be done at rainforestarts.ca.