About The Artist

Born and raised on the rugged West Coast of British Columbia, Samera Gibson’s earliest paintings were in plein-air, among wild coastal grasslands, orcas breaching, eagle trees and old barns at Blackie’s Spit, in Crescent Beach — painting with local Landscape Oil Painter, Ron Mulvey. 

Samera was taught diversely about using her creativity early in her childhood, from her mother; a passionate multidisciplinary global-trotting artist, puppeteer and teacher, who taught her the importance of art, and father — a printer, stained glass artist, traveller, and mystic, whose love for art and music was her greatest influence. “My parents both hired an architect under Frank Lloyd Wright, to design our home. Wright believed in designing harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture — My father helped build our house and our family made everything and we were immersed in nature overlooking the pacific ocean.” These early memories inspired a deep reverence for the natural world and a desire to capture the spirit of her environment.

Travelling and hiking excursions have further tendered a myriad of inspiration for Samera’s art. Her most memorable experiences are travelling and living throughout Europe, America, and Mexico and living with the indigenous peoples of Fiji, in the South Pacific. Exploring sacred sites, cathedrals, temples, the jungle and B.C.’s wilderness, have all fuelled her creative pursuits.

After surviving a near death experience falling off High Falls, a waterfall in Squamish valley, Samera discovered a whole realm of knowledge studying the Healing Arts. To regain her health, she explored Zen Calligraphy, origins of Cosmic symbology, Sacred Geometry and Frequency in the form of Cymatic glyphs & applied sound healing. This period encouraged her own inner transformative landscapes to surface, and through her discoveries, a bidirectional relationship to the outer world was revealed. In her most recent paintings, she aims to express the journey of soul in the renewal of this most important connection.

Samera senses her experiences, visions and dreams, and brings them to life using ink and acrylic media on canvas and masonite. She celebrates the emotive journey with an explosive colour palette and varied patterns. “I feel painting is a funnel for all other forms of expression — dance, piano, theatre, printmaking, carving and welding have all played a role on my path. Life’s Challenges hold profound spiritual significance and this deepening has brought me happiness and peace. My paintings represent these transformations, each one, a transmission of growth deciding which techniques and subjects.”

“I don’t see my art as a hobby, I see the creative process as a necessary tool in the evolution of our human consciousness — I see life as a living art and its struggles have rewarded me with clarity to see, that we are always creating and the created, at the same time.” Motherhood and caring for her father and THE experiencE OF his departure INTO the heavenly realms, HAS cultivated a renewed creativity. she hopes her art resonates inspiration for the viewer to create their own life, as a work of art.

Samera's paintings have been shown throughout the lower mainland and the Sea-to-Sky Corridor, and she has sold her art worldwide. her largest series was showcased at the 2010 Whistler Winter Olympics. Samera’s art studio is in White Rock Beach, B.C. and she is currently painting her next series of artwork.