Aileen Penner

Aileen Penner is a interdiciplinary artist. She works at the intersection of art and environmental science and her paintings and installations are often poetic responses to the world around her. She is an encaustic painter and works in this medium for its translucency, delicacy and strength. The immediate transformation from liquid to solid and back again, its willingness to be transformed, the effects of layer upon layer upon layer makes it a perfect medium for exploring our complicated relationship to grief.

Aileen’s background as a writer and her love of language, science and nature informs and inspires her work. Aileen was the 2018-19 Kent Harrison Artist in Residence at Harrison Hot Springs where she taught encaustic monotype and cyanotype printmaking.

She has exhibited at the North Vancouver Community Art Gallery, Gulf of Georgia Cannery, Camosun College, Xchanges Gallery, The Fortune Gallery, the Ranger Station Gallery and the VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver. Aileen holds a Diploma in Visual Arts from Camosun College and a Masters of Environmental Studies from York University.