About

Darby Milbrath (b. 1985) is a Victoria, British Columbia based artist who approaches painting as a meditative, intuitive, and ultimately transcendent act to visualize the spiritual sublimity of nature. Informed by movement, music, and embodiment, figures and flora emerge in cascading formations within abstract environments, communicating states of exaltation. Milbrath builds up her canvases with colours and representational imagery. She then obliterates parts or whole elements, adding new ones over top, creating a cycle of constructing and deconstructing a painting. A figure may become …