Though her heart resides in Portsmouth, Dominica, Kaya Panthier currently lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

 

Panthier’s work reimagines the landscape of the tropics as one which conceals, protects, and houses spirit. Through a study of incalescence, revolt, exalt, and haunting on the island of Dominica, her current practice blends a reverence for personal legend with an interest in Caribbean folktales.

 

Her art embodies portrayals of familial relationships, explorations of intergenerational wisdom, and studies in grief.  In acknowledgment of the cycles of life and death that permeate every aspect of existence, Panthier draws inspiration from the island’s volcanic origins as a powerful energetic source.  These concepts are embedded within her paintings through the use of fluorescent grounds, which give the sense that both flesh and flora are energetically charged by the heat that birthed them.

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For more information or to acquire work, please visit @kaya.panthier on Instagram or email Kayacecileandree@gmail.com.