Sandra Boorne

Sandra Boorne is an artist whose visual language is recognizable by her sophisticated colour palette and strong design. She has a passion for combining different elements from the natural world with abstract shapes to create her signature paintings.

Sandra graduated with a diploma in Graphic Design and has taken numerous workshops and classes within the artistic community as well as being an Art2Life CVP alumni. She worked in the flower industry for over 25 years, designing gardens as well as owning a flower shop.

She returned to painting full-time in 2010 and has been showing her work since then, whether in group or solo exhibitions or in collaboration with galleries.

Her process involves many layers of gestural mark-making, occasionally collage elements are added. Her intention is to create history within each layer, adding texture, subtracting paint to reveal the underlayers, and then adding more paint as the forms begin to reveal themselves. All the process is instinctual, except for the final touches which are delicate and deliberate and bring the piece to fruition.

Sandra paints primarily in Acrylics and Oil pigment sticks and has a strong background in watercolour, which she still teaches on cruise ships. She resides in Montreal, Canada for part of the year and also has a studio in her home in Boynton Beach, Florida.