Deltra Powney
MASTER ARTIST
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MEDIUMS: Acrylic | Oil | Printmaking
SPECIALTY: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Finding Your Artistic Style ✔ Finding Your Artistic Voice
My group focus is on processes involved with the creative art practice. Students can expect to gain insight into building a positve mindset with exersizes in goal setting and tasks assignment. Gaining confidence in communicating with visual language will happen as they develop their own unique style through the investigation of elements and principles of design, and practice. They will become very comfortable discussing the concepts behind their work both verbally and in written formats. Students will implement systems to facilitate in the management of the various fractions of the art practice including what I consider to be the three biggest resources we have: time, energy and money.
There will be an expectation of students to participate in discussion, and take action on assigned homework. I will support students through providing prompts, challenges, and exercises to identify habits, and implement systems and routines; foster accountability within the group through homework assignments; and be transparent in sharing of my own art practice.
Deltra’s EXPERTISE
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Specialty: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Finding Your Artistic Style ✔ Finding Your Artistic Voice
Technique:
Composition and Color
Technique Demos
Supplies and Tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
Providing Art Critiques
Teaching How to Self Critique
Studio Setup for Art Production
Marketing:
Artist Statement & CV
Social Media
Business:
Running Your Art Business, the day-to-day
Pricing Artwork
Studio Time Management
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun.
It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.”
~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Deltra Leona McNeil Powney is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist with a focus in acrylic painting. She is a third generation descendant of Scottish and Norwegian settlers who farmed at Redvers, Saskatchewan, Treaty 2 territory where she grew up. She was steeped in creative energy as a child with her mother and grandmother being painters, and her father a professional musician. Deltra started expressing experiences through painting, drawing, exhibiting work with the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Council (1989), and illustrating a book for the Canadian Prairie Author Clarence A. Boon (1990).
Moving to Alberta Deltra attended the Visual Communications Diploma Program at Medicine Hat College (1993). This launched her graphic design career in Edmonton where she served clients internationally in the educational sector, as well as the retail, light industrial, and oil industries for over 10 years. She took on mentoring young artist at Jasper Place High School in 1999 and started exhibiting paintings in group and solo shows. Deltra started teaching community classes in the greater Edmonton area (early 2000’s) and became a Program Specialist with the Edmonton City Arts Center (2017-2022) teaching how to paint the essence of places in acrylic painting to adults.
Deltra obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art with distinction (2017) from the University of Alberta. The following year she attend the Canadian Wilderness Artist Residency in Yukon Territory that both moved through and operated within the traditional territory of the: Kwanlin Dün, Ta’an Kwäch‘än, Little Salmon/Carmacks, Selkirk, and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nations. This immersive experience–where she and 11 other artist canoed the Yukon River, between Whitehorse and Dawson City, for 17 days–was a pivotal experience, deeply impacting her personally and the art she makes.
She divides her time between her home studio, and Society of Northern Alberta Printmakers (SNAP) located on Treaty 6 territory, exhibiting paintings in public and commercial galleries, working on graphic design and illustration projects, and teaching with various art organizations.
