Alice Vander Vennen lives in Cobourg, Ontario, a charming town near Toronto. A child of immigrant parents who left war-torn Holland, she has used her art to capture stories of loss and hope, courage and strength. First trained as a sculptor, she now works in three-dimensional assemblage. Vennen writes, “The assembled sculptural form may be reminiscent of a quilt, a canoe or a totem. I strive to have the materials form a new voice of a gathered people, a celebration of the human spirit, whether from secret spaces or the most flamboyant expressions.”
