Biography
Brenna George is best known for her thoughtful paintings made from abstracting events in her life. Her style is a mix of journaling and humor insights using exuberant brushwork and anthropomorphism.
Her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada and the Surrey Art Gallery. She has mentored at MAWA, Video Pool, the Rural Arts Mentorship Program at MAN and MAWA, and privately through her website. She teaches painting and drawing at the WAG, RWB, Forum Art, and Fort Garry Palette Club in Winnipeg
George is a Winnipeg artist. Growing up in Victoria in the ’70s with a father who was a biologist, George spent most of her childhood outdoors hiking on beaches and making sculptural installations with plants, rocks, dirt, and twigs. She studied at Emily Carr in Vancouver, in the ’80s, then continued to make art. She has been drawing, painting, and making video art for many years. Her work has a large outdoor plein-air direction in the summers and journaling abstracting from events in her life in the winters.
George exhibited yearly with the Artist Mothers group at Mawa and co-led the group for seven years.
George has had solo exhibitions at NorVA, Flin Flon, Golden Prairie Arts Council, Carmen, MB, Burrows Trails Arts Council, McCreary, MB, Pembina Hills Arts Council, Morden, MB, Fort la Reine Museum, Portage La Prairie, MB, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Wasagaming Community Arts Centre - Wasagaming MB, White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ont , Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, The Perel Gallery, Vancouver, The Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, and Artspeak, Vancouver, BC.
Brenna August and September 2022 drawing the “apple tree portraits”series.
Brenna George, Plein Air Painting, Land Body series, Writing on Stone, August 2019