Valerie Wiebe is an artist, singer/songwriter and designer living and working on a farm south of the town of Langham, Saskatchewan. Valerie has degrees in Music, Arts Education, Fine Arts-Painting and Fine Arts-Interior Architecture and Design. After getting married and moving to the Langham area in the late 1980’s, she taught within the local public-school system for 6 years before moving to live and work in Bangladesh for 3 years with Mennonite Central Committee. This experience was a pivotal moment for Valerie, propelling her to cease teaching, and to pursue instead her own creative endeavors in art, music and design. Her paintings and her music are inspired by the wide swathes of sky and vast horizons that surround her home farm in all directions.

Valerie Wiebe is an artist, singer/songwriter and designer living and working on a farm south of the town of Langham, Saskatchewan. Valerie has degrees in Music, Arts Education, Fine Arts-Painting and Fine Arts-Interior Architecture and Design. After getting married and moving to the Langham area in the late 1980’s, she taught within the local public-school system for 6 years before moving to live and work in Bangladesh for 3 years with Mennonite Central Committee. This experience was a pivotal moment for Valerie, propelling her to cease teaching, and to pursue instead her own creative endeavors in art, music and design. Her paintings and her music are inspired by the wide swathes of sky and vast horizons that surround her home farm in all directions.

My work is inspired by the wide swathes of sky and vast horizons that surround our home farm in all directions. Standing in the rural landscape in which I live, I find myself feeling both a sense of awe and an awareness of my own insignificance. My newest body of work, The Big Earth, explores this relationship between the landscape and our own fragility. The emotions evoked by the small figures and the immense vistas, are universal to the human condition no matter where we live. For me, each piece is an exploration of not only the landscape, but how that space makes me feel, the ideas that space evokes within me. My paintings each have a central landscape image, and a complimentary painted border. The borders act as a subtext to the landscape, revealing more food for thought, and they feed my obsession with pattern. I work primarily in acrylic on Baltic Birch, adding in other media as required.

My work is inspired by the wide swathes of sky and vast horizons that surround our home farm in all directions. Standing in the rural landscape in which I live, I find myself feeling both a sense of awe and an awareness of my own insignificance. My newest body of work, The Big Earth, explores this relationship between the landscape and our own fragility. The emotions evoked by the small figures and the immense vistas, are universal to the human condition no matter where we live. For me, each piece is an exploration of not only the landscape, but how that space makes me feel, the ideas that space evokes within me. My paintings each have a central landscape image, and a complimentary painted border. The borders act as a subtext to the landscape, revealing more food for thought, and they feed my obsession with pattern. I work primarily in acrylic on Baltic Birch, adding in other media as required.