Amy-Claire Huestis: Where the Rain Falls without Falling,

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Amy-Claire Huestis, "Name the Moons," 2018

oil on linen, 80" x 65"

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 22 from 2 - 4 pm Artist in attendance

“This is the place/ the Hole in the Sky/ where clouds visit the Earth/ where the rain falls without falling/ This is the place/ of sandpipers/ of the cacophony/ of snow geese killdeer/ gulls blackbirds eagles/ wrens owls herons.”

As a daily ritual, Amy-Claire Huestis walks the path along the dyke in the Fraser River Delta, in British Columbia, at a place called Brunswick Point. This little area of land -- recognized as globally important migratory bird habitat -- is shared by Canada’s largest coal terminal. Walking the path between paradise and environmental destruction, the artist communicates to us works made through “deep listening” to nature – through careful observation of birds, grasses, moons and tides. Her works erase boundaries between movement, creative writing, drawing, and painting.

Amy-Claire Huestis lives in Ladner, British Columbia, in the delta of the Fraser River. In her soulful works she suspends a state of wonder in relation to nature and its mysteries.  In her visual storytelling, she erases boundaries between drawing, painting, movement, and creative writing.  Alongside her solitary pieces made in the BC landscape, she often collaborates with international artists in residencies and performance pieces.  In these she utilizes her own invented shadow-painted light media. 

Her visionary work involves divining, ritual, and duration actions -- these in participation in time and the elements.  Her current projects include “Book of Clouds,” a dance performance involving her light media, and “Rainbow’s Story”, a poetic cycle about the delta landscape and its colours. 

Amy-Claire has had residencies in the Bothy Project in Scotland, in Gray’s Cottage in Sechelt, BC, and at the UCLA Art/Science Center.  Her performances include venues such as University Settlement in New York City, the UCLA Broad Art Centre, and the Baryshnikov Dance Centre in New York City.  She teaches drawing and painting at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in BC’s lower mainland.  Her current work centres around her home in the marshland, living in a little house that floats up and down with the tides.