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<\/a>Wheaton completed her undergrad degree in California and then received her master\u2019s degree in fine arts while in New York, where she currently lives. She says her work in A little air <\/i>is \u201covertly about the scale shift\u201d and was created alongside other paintings using image references and silhouettes of leaves and trees, which \u201care represented by a photograph that I found\u2014and then there is this foregrounded, kind of luminous grey element that emulates a different photogram that I found,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s a big difference,\u201d she continues. \u201cContemporary photo in the back, and a very early type of photography in front, and then sort of fused together in a painting, so that the frontal element feels quite close to the surface but there is a ton of space in the background of the painting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Art has been a long-time love of Wheaton\u2019s. She says she was \u201cone of those kids that were manically drawing\u201d whenever she could.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it wasn\u2019t actually until I moved to Canada to attend Camosun when I was 20 that I officially began studying art,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Many of the artists featured in the show feel a strong connection to the residency and to Camosun\u2019s Visual Arts department, and it\u2019s interesting to see how the artists have honed their skills, tweaked their techniques, and brought their visions to life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been officially making work for over a decade,\u201d says Wheaton. \u201cAll of it sort of relates to that work in the show. I\u2019ve just continuously evolved, in truth, over time. This is my career; I\u2019m in the studio as much as possible. Last year I had a temporary post teaching art in university. I have different odd jobs that I take on to get by, but art is definitely the main event; or, I should say, work in the studio is the main event. I always have more that I am thinking about and desiring to work on than there are hours in the day; I\u2019m just thinking about my work all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n