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

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

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

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

Wanda Koop
- Light
- Thrill
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

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Wanda Koop
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