Sabine Simons is an East Vancouver abstract artist who uses a variety of media, paints, materials, textures, and colours in her work. When starting a new piece on the floor, a table, or an easel she usually decides on a palette and then lets her intuition be her guide. At times, Sabine has a certain theme in mind, a landscape perhaps; at other times, her work is completely free-flowing, without a set plan, and themes emerge unexpectedly. Occasionally, she works on several pieces at the same time, and she finds that this process helps her to loosen up, break free from conventional represen­tational norms, allowing her to let creative ideas develop unrestrainedly.

Colours and how they interact with each other and added elements such as shapes and lines are an important part of Sabine=s process. Through layering, blending, scraping back, incising, line work and other techniques, she strives to create pieces that show the history of the work. For Sabine, the most important goal she endeavours to achieve with her art is to express and stir emotions. Since she considers herself an optimist, she likes to keep these emotions positive.

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