Nicole Bauberger

The horizon draws me to the Yukon. I can almost hear the conversation going on between these dynamic skies and strong wide mountains. That conversation is what I try to paint.

For 22 years, since I was 10, I lived in Peterborough, Ontario. Although I took a couple of valuable courses at the Ontario College of Art, I chose my Peterborough collaborations as my art college.

For five years I worked as apprentice and assistant painter to David Bierk - an intensive education in oil paint, methods and materials, as well as art history and contemporary art practice. Late at night in the BierkArt Studio I began my first experiments with encaustic, using the hotplate we used to make the rabbit skin glue.

Since leaving BierkArt in the spring of 1999 I have pursued my own artistic visions, educating myself as I go. I've designed for theatre, written for newspapers, told stories and written poems. I've undertaken mural projects with youth. I've toured my work through coffee shops, festivals, commercial and public galleries. I'm currently touring Listening to the Mountain, a show of paintings and drawings in installation, drawing a bit closer to one of our Yukon peaks.

Starting in 2001 I painted summers in the Yukon. In 2003 I stuck. I've lived here four years now. I'm still painting that dialogue between the land and the sky.

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