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Colours of the Soul
Sr. Felicitas Drobig,osu
November 10th - December 17th, 2011
Reception: Sunday, November
20th, 12-2pm
STM Gallery
2nd floor, St. Thomas More College
1437 College Dr. Saskatoon,
SK
652-5310
Bio
Felicitas Drobig, osu is an Ursuline of Prelate (Roman Catholic Sister) and an art therapist. Born in Germany, Felicitas’ family came to Canada when Felicitas was a teenager. She quickly came to love the country and its people.
Calling herself an artist took a little longer. Felicitas was well into her thirties before making her first forays into art through photography. While majoring in psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, Felicitas explored various media, being drawn especially to sculptural welding and soapstone carving. A love for abstract painting came after that.
Felicitas’ interest in the arts and her wish to help people eventually led her into the field of art therapy. Her first day at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in Nelson, BC, felt like coming home. Felicitas graduated from the Institute in 2007 and since then has had her private art therapy practice in Saskatoon. (Art’iculate Art Therapy Services) She works with individual clients, both adults and children, but she has also given workshops for various church and professional groups and is a regular presenter at Queen’s House of Retreats. Her special passion is exploring art, faith, and spirituality.
Artist’s Statement
Since I got into photography and other art form in my thirties, art has been a way to relax and explore my inner self. This aspect of art making was fostered once I studied art therapy. I had always instinctively known that making art was good for me.
In art therapy it is the process that is important and even though I have sold some of my art—both sculptures and paintings—for me, the process still takes precedence over the product. Rather than going into an art-making session with a vision of what I want in my mind, I create intuitively, letting my heart guide me. Obviously, that does not always make for sellable art, but this is how I like it.
The paintings in this show were done in late 2011 and 2011. Each one holds a story for me—struggle, triumph, questioning, searching, joy, etc. I am grateful for the support of my religious community, the Ursulines of Prelate. But what carries me throughout is my faith—my belief in a loving and merciful God and that is apparent in some of my art. I have expressed my inner self through these paintings and I hope that they speak to you, too, even though they may be telling you something very different—that is the beauty of art used in the service of therapy.
 Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”— St. Thomas More |
