ART STATEMENT
After spending my childhood in the Comox Valley, I moved away to Toronto to establish my career as an artist and graphic designer. The influence of living in such different surroundings is an underlying theme of many of my paintings which entwine city and rural landscapes. This influence is shown most markedly in my Collected Places and Unraveling Forests series.
For the past six years, I worked as a broadcast designer for the CBC. This experience changed how I see my environment; it has made the concise, the dramatic, the immediate a vivid force in the way I paint. The present has become more of a reality and drives the design of my painting. As such, my current reality has recently made a great shift. After nearly two decades away, I’ve returned to make Vancouver Island my home once more. This return has motivated me to create a new body of work that depicts how the space between Toronto and Vancouver Island can be compressed into a mere series of paintings. I want to show how the distinct, different areas of this country are more similar to each other than many of us think and how community, no matter what, holds the link that connects us all.
CLIENT FEEDBACK
“Kari would easily rank at the top of any list as both a creative thinker and an accomplished artist. Everyone who works with Kari appreciates what a warm, caring and funny person she is. Kari is truly a team player who adds in the most positive ways her ideas, which have always improved the end product.” (Fred Parker, Chief Television Director, CBC News and News Specials)
“Television is a team sport and broadcast designers like Kari Minchin play a critical role in making the audience stay for the next story coming up. The graphics that Ms. Minchin created for stories I produced added that necessary edge to contribute to successful story telling.” (Michael D’Souza, Producer/Senior Writer, CBC NEWS: The National)
“Kari has handled the stress of the "strange" and varied requests with aplomb befitting a "veteran" designer. Her calm demeanor makes her a pleasure to work with.” (Raj Ahluwalia, CBC News)
“In her role as a graphic artist, Kari brings professionalism, and enthusiasm
to her position. She is a very creative individual and is always willing to try a new approach.” (Shirley Schonbacher-Bottoms, Director, Saturday Report/ CBC News)
"During her time here Kari has proved to be an exception designer and employee. Kari brings a strong sense of creativity, reason and rational to her work and always provides exceptional creative solutions." (Stephen Plunkett, Supervisor of Graphic Design, Toronto Production Centre)