Artist Statement

Painting, drawing and hand papermaking are my tools for learning and probing into the forces of our world: those we cannot control and those we can or think we can. Currently I am taking apart a series of studio scrolls that have become the catalyst for a new generation of works called Soundings, to be exhibited at the Craig Gallery, Dartmouth.

A recent trip to Turkey is at the root of a renewed interest in the written word, not necessarily as legible words, but as a pattern that colours both our inner and outer realities.

Biography

Stanfield has a BA in psychology from Mount Allison, a BEd from Dalhousie and a BFA in painting and printmaking from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her interest in papermaking has led to studies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, Carriage House, Brookline, MA, Brooklyn, NY and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee as well as Hawaii, Thailand and Myanmar. With a fully functioning papermaking studio she has created both 2 and 3 dimensional works that have been collected by the Nova Scotia Art Bank and published in several books: Paper Art/ 193 International Artists (IAPMA, 2009) and Nova Scotia Contemporary Artists, Vol. 2 (Dee Appleby, 2010).

Her work is carried by Secord Gallery and Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Halifax.