Samantha Walrod: Off the Beaten Path

Samantha Walrod’s artworks capture the fleeting aesthetic found in human-wildlife interactions, delineating the shrinking boundaries between the Canadian wilderness and human encroachment. Bears, elk and wolves stand at the threshold between their habitats and the asphalt highways, before they disappear into the forest. Combining paint, collage and digital technologies, her highly tactile and layered compositions address cultural depictions of nature. Sourced from art history, popular culture and her photographs, the layered imagery mirrors fleeting encounters. newzones.com