Photo courtesy of Greg Yavorsky
Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are.” ~ Jose Ortega Y Gassett
Artist; bookbinder; conservator; singer; writer; teacher; mentor; advocate; mother; sister; daughter; traveller; facilitator; lawyer; librarian; nature lover; collector; dreamer . . .
Welcome to the home of multi-faceted artist Dea Fischer. Dea is an internationally-sought teacher and book artist with works held in special, public and private collections in Canada, the US, England, Australia, Korea and Japan. Collectors include the Haas Family Collection at Yale University, and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Wearing her other hat, Dea worked for thirteen years as a conservator for a Canadian public library system, and for the University of Cambridge, UK. She writes and teaches popular courses in book arts, altered books, collage and low tech image creation. Dea has a slow-burning love affair with books, collage and low-tech photography. In her off hours, she engages her community in acts of random creation.
As an avid hiker in the woods, hills and mountains of the UK and Canada, we live in nature on an almost overwhelming scale sometimes, and it is easy for the eye to be constantly drawn upward. I use my work to draw the eye to the boot-level ecosystems that are so often stepped over while wandering, awe-struck by the greater vistas. I love to light the spark of creativity in others, and teach them the value of interacting meaningfully with our natural and human environments. I am inspired by artists whose work celebrates nature's forms. We are but facilitators to that greater grandeur. ~ Dea Fischer
Throw your dreams into space, like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new home, a new country. ~ Anais Nin
Artist; bookbinder; conservator; singer; writer; teacher; mentor; advocate; mother; sister; daughter; traveller; facilitator; lawyer; librarian; nature lover; collector; dreamer . . .
Welcome to the home of multi-faceted artist Dea Fischer. Dea is an internationally-sought teacher and book artist with works held in special, public and private collections in Canada, the US, England, Australia, Korea and Japan. Collectors include the Haas Family Collection at Yale University, and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Wearing her other hat, Dea worked for thirteen years as a conservator for a Canadian public library system, and for the University of Cambridge, UK. She writes and teaches popular courses in book arts, altered books, collage and low tech image creation. Dea has a slow-burning love affair with books, collage and low-tech photography. In her off hours, she engages her community in acts of random creation.
As an avid hiker in the woods, hills and mountains of the UK and Canada, we live in nature on an almost overwhelming scale sometimes, and it is easy for the eye to be constantly drawn upward. I use my work to draw the eye to the boot-level ecosystems that are so often stepped over while wandering, awe-struck by the greater vistas. I love to light the spark of creativity in others, and teach them the value of interacting meaningfully with our natural and human environments. I am inspired by artists whose work celebrates nature's forms. We are but facilitators to that greater grandeur. ~ Dea Fischer
Throw your dreams into space, like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new home, a new country. ~ Anais Nin
