About the artist
Ursula Cranmer creates contemporary artworks using acrylics, oils, and multi -media and is also an experienced printmaker. She was born in South Africa of Irish/German heritage and has lived in the Rodney District (just north of Auckland, New Zealand), for 12yrs. Ursula has a BA Degree (Fine Art/Art History) and Dip.Ed. and has taught art formally and informally to all age groups. She has also researched, written and edited several Celebrate Art posters and books, which cover popular themes in contemporary art and are designed to assist art teachers in NZ and Australia.
Ursula exhibits regularly and works from her home studio (Studio Christel).
Artist's Statement:
"How the brain functions and how differently humans perceive, learn, function and cope in their individual worlds (including the gifted, the mentally ill and the disabled) are topics that influence my daily life and my art.I am intrigued by human development, art history, architecture, psychology, quantum physics, science and spirituality - especially the areas where these topics intersect. It is often the unspoken subliminal connections that inspire my artworks; an awareness of the nonverbal subconscious, sensory responses to spiritual and philosophical concepts, a sense of paradigms and timelessness. While language holds the key to sequential communications around the globe, the power of the visual image connects human’s universally on a spatial level - whether manifest or imagined, abstract or figurative.
My art-making frequently combines or overlaps into different aspects of my creativity: painting, printmaking, drawing, teaching, curating, researching, writing.
- Creativity is programmed into our DNA – it is a God-given instinct that all human’s respond and react to.
- Art has a spiritual aspect that makes connections on many levels allowing creative growth in different spheres of life: intellectual, inter-personal and personal.
- Visual Art creates ‘music’ for my eyes and ‘words’ for my soul."
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