Bio “ Lifting Joy and spirit through movement and colour “. "My name is Jason Misurka , an emerging Canadian abstract artist born in 1967 Toronto Ontario. I now live in Mississauga ,where I paint in my home studio, overlooking and inspiring backyard view. My artistic journey and interest in the arts began at a very young age, around 8 years old, when I picked up a pencil and started doodling images of animals and landscapes. This sparked my imagination and continued throughout high school and then college. My journey formally began with an introduction to visual arts at Sheridan College, where I studied the fundamentals of art. There, I explored various mediums such as photography, printmaking, live model sketching, and art theory. I then moved on to the main course of study in the Classical Animation program, which involved more intense visual perceptions, creating repetitive animated drawings brought to life, and designing backgrounds and layouts. Looking back, I found that my passion and interest in abstract painting allowed me to find my true voice and freely explore my imagination . I create sketches of shapes and forms and build on them with bold colour tones, inspired by my everyday life experiences and observations. ARTIST STATEMENT My paintings intuitively engage the subconscious mind with dreamlike state captures and moments frozen in time and space.This is achieved through layering translucent , bold colour palettes , transferred images , and masking film , adding layers of bold colour forms that evoke the senses of energy , flows of movement and joyfulness . My paintings are an expression and interpretation of my own life experiences gathered from observations . These observations are then collected through hand sketches , conjured thoughts , and manipulated to shape and form compositions . The focuses may include inspiring long walks through the urban streetscapes of downtown Toronto , European and Caribbean vacations , and casual nature hikes , such as the winding trails through Gravenhurst Ontario. My techniques include air brushes with richly pigmented acrylic tones ,where I paint wide swaths with sweeping motions and smaller areas of fine details . I engage in hand painting with long and short gestural brush movements , incorporating free - flow inks to push paint around in spontaneous flows that naturally unfold in its raw organic forms . Final touches may include acrylic markers for fine details and a flick brush for splatter effects.