Mo Hamilton is a printmaker, textile artist, mixed-medium painter and teacher. Recurring symbols and motifs show up in her work such as houses, trees, plants, birds and natural elements. Often she is drawn to her studio by an idea or agenda that needs to express it’s self only to find that the process takes over and intuition leads the way.
Mo Hamilton's daily artistic practice is rooted in her curiosity for painting and her exploration of the abstracted inner landscape. Her abstract works emerge naturally, without a preexisting plan aside from her choice of acrylic and collage as a medium. Her process is intuitive and unconstrained, combining forms, colours, line, myths, dreams and reflections to create her subcutaneous, inner terrains. She begins by adding layer upon layer of marks, shapes and colors, then by continuously responding to each layer created by building the surface until a composition begins to emerge.
Mo allows the painting to evolve naturally as she responds to the emerging composition, creating a history of layers. Her only plan is to engage with the creative process, for its own sake, and to work intuitively until the work feels complete. Her abstract shapes and color choices are a reflection of her daydreams and inner musings rather than a predetermined idea or outcome.
Mo Hamilton has exhibited and sold her work in many galleries through out BC. She facilitated the Art Heals Program at the Northern Health Hospital in Prince George for many years as well as teach art workshops at Two Rivers Gallery, Smithers Art Gallery, Terrace Art Gallery, Kootenay Gallery of Art, Island Mountain Arts and also MISSA. Mo studied art at Camosun College, has done a couple TOAP mentorships at IMA in Wells and continues to learn and follow her curiosity as it applies to art making. She has lived and worked in many communities across BC but now works as full time studio artist in her home in Prince George, BC.