ABOUT ME | BIOGRAPHY
Reema Chopra is an Digital marketing and communications professional, mentor, artist, professionally trained Graphic Designer and certified Usui Reiki Master.
Reema provides career guidance, coaching, writing services, promotion, and digital marketing strategies for artists from beginners to advanced. She is a founder of White Antelope, a branding and marketing agency located in Toronto, Canada.
Reema brings her vast knowledge and expertise in advertising, art, graphic design, marketing, events and promotions, along with an international network of contacts to each of her clients. She is committed to the success each client entrusts her to bring to their efforts. She is one of the forthcoming new contemporary artists to emerge out of the Canadian landscape in the last decade.
Reema has vast knowledge working with individuals and groups of all ages, from children to the elderly. Concerns explored in her art therapy sessions range from trauma and injury to individual exploration and self-discovery. Some clients achieve a greater connection to their creativity, intuition and practical tools for reaching these aspects of themselves.
Reema's distinctive mark is seen in her ability to lay down "multi-layered coats of vibrant paint spread over a canvas with vigorous and bold brushstrokes. Reema’s entire body of work addresses taboo and controversial issues related to fundamental human experiences such as birth, death, and aspects of consciousness. Primarily influenced by the painters like Rembrandt and Monet helped place her work in direct conflict with the abstraction and conceptual art. Some of her favorite artists include works from Saya Woolfalk and Georgia O’Keeffe as well as work from a broad range of Canadian photographers.
She describes her style as primarily modern, abstract, textural and minimalist; others view it as spiritualism, and passion, that shows a link between the earth and cosmic forces above it. As such, the core of Reema's work lies in the natural imagery around her, but her ability to capture the elusive boundary between representation and abstraction is central to her singular language of modernism, she specifically incorporates her passion for art and spiritual practice in her visual explorations of the rhythms of daily life.
After graduating from Visual Communications, followed by Post graduation in Marketing and Public Relations from the University of Mumbai, India, she pursued her career as a Creative Art Director for some of the top advertising agencies, fortune 500 companies, design studios, and print publications. She moved to Toronto, Ontario in the 1990s, and completed her studies in Graphic and Web Design from George Brown College and Certificate in Digital Marketing from the University of Toronto. Her versatile spirit has led her to incorporate many different styles and mediums into her works including acrylic colours, watercolors, digital art, pastels, and inks. She is a Founder of White Antelope, a Canadian company specializing in Diversity and Digital Marketing Management and Sohum Healing Arts Centre serving a diverse range of Canadian audiences.
Motivated and inspired by therapeutic art classes she facilitated at Ontario Shores of Mental Health in Whitby, Ontario, and Welcome Immigrant Center in Ajax Ontario, She quickly developed a deep passion for modalities of art therapies used for healing trauma, depression, PTSD, Dementia and many more. Reema’s art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Reema reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures, and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous.
She is devoted to the integrative field of Energy Medicine, treating a multitude of chronic and acute conditions. She is a philosopher at heart assisting individuals to heal on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. She has a passion for the arts, and actively supports local arts and community organisations in Durham Ontario region, having served as a Board member for an independent theater company Ajax Community Theater and a local art gallery Station Gallery in Whitby, Ontario and Non-profit Girls Inc Durham. She works with organisations who want to tap into the sentiments of their key stakeholder audiences in sustainable ways and is very keen on working with some great projects which are revenue generating for any community.
Reema is an animal lover, movie fan, loves to cook international cuisine and spends as much time as possible with her family. She loves to travel and photographs people in their own land. She presently lives in Ajax, Ontario, Canada with her husband, two kids, and a dog. She is a regular practitioner at Sacred Quest, Whitby where she facilitates group classes and one on one Reiki treatments. Reema’s work has been showcased at Ontario Shores Art Gallery, Whitby, Shamba foundation, Toronto, Aurora Cultural Center, Aurora, Ontario. Currently, she is currently working on commissioned art and her upcoming various Solo Art Shows in 2019.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
| l'art du Coeur |
| The art of the heart|
Perceiving from the heart, a true art.
Perceiving from the heart means feeling, sensing, knowing how to listen without judging. With no prejudices, savoring life with all its flavors and touching reality with all its textures and paint. Perceiving from the heart has to do with sensitivity and unconditional love. It is the ability to not only retain what our senses convey to us but also to apply feeling, empathy, and intuition in order to get to deeper interpretations. My goal is to inspire those who see my art to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover beauty within.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Your vision will become clearer only when you look into your heart. He who looks outwards, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
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You are cordially invited to my upcoming series of artworks (l'art du Coeur) and (A Journey Within) are close-in portraits of female faces which depict the journey, pain and suffering of women inhabited by beauty or imbued with suffering, all tied up together by the, hypnotic eyes speaking the deep language of soul.
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