About the Artist: Tania Godoroja Pearse

On Herself

I am a child of the Americas, swimming now in the mainstream of the immigrant confusion in Canada.  Born in Rio de Janeiro of Russian parents. who in 1950 emigrated from northern china to Brazil, I moved at a young age to Canada and, eventually, settled on the west coast where I live today.

I have been well nurtured by this incredible country, and I remain passionately inspired by its rugged embrace.  I am by nature and practice a painter, and although I have achieved no singular artistic greatness in life other than to be loved and to have loved, I have painted all my life for the pleasure of it. 

My career has been as a teacher, but my profession has been to immerse myself in the immediate world of family, friends, and children and imbue them with the revolutionary spirit that drives all great art. 

I have learned from those I love and admire that when we concentrate on probabilities we are tempted to take what has happened as an instruction for what should happen in the future.  In other words, we deny ourselves possibility.  On the other hand, if we understand the potential of a situation, what we may learn from the past is not that we should continue to adhere to it and reinforce the trend but, rather, that we should stand in the way of it and oppose to it one of another kind of future based upon the potency of the human spirit and imagination.

We all surround ourselves in life with like-minded characters, and we forget how different other experiences are, how different the realities that the people in our own communities face.  All of us learn and live in relationships with one another; much of our reality lies in how these relationships take shape, evolve and fade.  What excites me about the future is being challenged to move beyond the bounds of community in this experience, to engage with this phenomenon at a global level.