Shuster's work (a small selection)
PAINTINGS, MIXED MEDIA, DRAWINGS

Keep in mind, what you see here are mere digital images, pale representations of the real.  Please write or call if you'd like to see more images or arrange for a private viewing - shusterstudio@yahoo.com.   Sales, of course, are always welcome and necessary as they support further individual and collaborative artwork, and the healing journey.
A price list can be found here.
Portrait commissions in charcoal or oil are also offered.  visit this page for more information and images.

charcoal DRAWINGS on paper

hudson dervish    





















scent of spices follows the trace

in and out conch whispering in my ear    























the charcoal drawings above
emerge from explorations with modern dancers

“Drawing with charcoal on paper, I work directly from and with dancers. My own movements, and the lines and shapes as they emerge, are also a kind of dance. It is the figure in space, the space in-between, the accumulation of line, and the collaboration of present moments in charcoal that engage and intrigue me. I delve deeply into the improvisational potential of any given moment and the movements of all kinds in the immediate environment. With luck, I touch or re-inhabit deeply intuitive moments of my childhood. It’s collaborative, interactive work—the two languages of drawing and dance improvising in concert with one another.  From this interaction come the traces that evolve into these drawings, that continue to dance...”   (W.S.)


"There is something at once ancient and timeless about them. The primitive simplicity of the materials recall the cave paintings of Lascaux; the fluidity of movement, Japanese ink drawings; and their complexities, the intricacies of Arabic designs or some futuristic architectural masterpiece........ they also remind me of the mindboggling patterns obtained in particles accelerators....
It's as if she was speaking in a language I understood perfectly and yet that I didn't even know I possessed...."
- Jean Marc Larivière, filmmaker, Ontario


oil PAINTINGS

phthalo dialogue

 




one third red

 




















 
 

riff    
   
























1+1=2    

























jester's retreat    





















There is a point of departure. And a pattern perceived, a movement explored, a pattern and movement made. From within, a life born and found. Between. Between visible and invisible, known and unknown, one and two. There lies a tension, a complementary ease, a dynamic equilibrium. There lies dream, reality, dream-reality. Between. There lies my drawing and painting.



MIXED MEDIA on paper

rising seed
 








 

 


there emerges, pacific orange    















who are your neighbors?

soul's shores    

"the world is a whole greater than the sum of its parts because the parts are not merely summed - thrown together - but related, the whole is a pattern which remains, while the parts come and go, just as the human body is a dynamic pattern which persists despite the rapid birth and death of all of its individual cells. The pattern does not, of course, exist disembodiedly apart from individual forms, but exists precisely through their coming and going - just as it is through the structured motion and vibration of its electrons that a rock has solidity."  from Nature, Man, Woman, by AlanWatts

More OILS

ellen seated

 

reclining rita

head of anna

small head of anna, 2

 small head of anna, 1

Current and upcoming exhibitions can be found here.
And a price list can be found here.


all images, copyright: Wendy Shuster

rise to the occasion!

I speak to myself too as I write these words.....

We've arrived, we've collaborated to bring ourselves to a critical juncture; our existence, the planet's survival hangs in the balance (or maybe it's just us who could seriously lose out?). It is for each and every one of us, no matter how much we believe we have already done to change ourselves and our environment for the better, it is for all of us to look at our lives, to look at how we speak and move and feel and touch the world. what choices big and small do we make in our daily lives? how do these choices shape our lives? shape our environment? what do we consume and how much and from where? what do we support with our purchases? what are our priorities and do we live them? what are our fears and how do they rule our lives and so our environment? who do we love? how do we love? do we love - genuinely, freely, unconditionally?

Listen to yourself, listen to each other, and the animals and all the creatures of this planet, and the plants, the wind, the water, the land and the stars....

It is with increasing awareness that different action emerges.

With awareness and joy and above all living love - our predicament can turn on a dime - we have that power within our collective selves --- to move the earth, to convert what is currently a negative charge to a positive one. Anything is possible. Everything is possible!

Live it. Love it. in your special way.

--- w.s.