Wanda Koop Quotes

United States, Painter
October 5, 1951

Wanda Koop CM OM is a Canadian interdisciplinary painter who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Koop was born on October 5, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Russian-Mennonite parents who had escaped the Russian Revolution. Koop graduated from the Lemoine Fitzgerald School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg in 1973.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

Wanda Koop
The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

Wanda Koop
- Light
- Thrill

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

Wanda Koop
- Beautiful
- Travel
- Felt
I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

Wanda Koop
As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

Wanda Koop
For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

Wanda Koop
When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

Wanda Koop
- Art
- Process
- Vulnerable
There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

Wanda Koop
- World
- Artist
- Assumption

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

Wanda Koop
- Wish
- Painting
- Energetic
I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

Wanda Koop
- Interest
- Shapes
- Colour
I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Wanda Koop