Carla Dearman is a Vancouver based artist and a recent graduate of the Emily Carr Institute. She works primarily in Painting and Drawing but she also enjoys Performance, Collaborative work, weaving tall tales, and spinning in circles.

“I am the most untroubled when I can find a quiet space inside my head to sit and paint. I like to think of my work as a conversation between the world that I see when I close my eyes and the world that surrounds me when they are open. I believe that visual perception is often heightened by dream or hallucination and is no less ‘real’ than any other visual stimulus and it is in these internal spaces that I find the most curious things…”