Artist Highlight- Veronica Funk

It's been 5 years now since the inception of Inner Works, an altered book round robin collaborative of six artists. The original group consisted of Supria Karmakar, Seth Apter, Veronica Funk, Jill Zaheer, Roxanne Evans-Stout, and myself. It's very exciting to see how each artist has grown, and to follow their accomplishments in their fields. I thought it would be fun to highlight each artist here and I'm starting with Veronica.

I am so excited to see the direction that Veronica has gone in her painting. She just finished up a community arts project where she painted a utility box.

"Funk's newest undertaking will give Airdrie residents and visitors the opportunity to view her work.  On Sept. 4, Funk, who was one of the founders of the AIRdirondack project and a former Creative Airdrie board member, will begin painting the City-owned utility box on the corner of First Ave. and Main Street.  The piece will be painted in her colourful new style with animal and arrowheads depicted, as well as images referencing Nose Creek."

Veronica continues to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions and her work has been published in numerous magazines, books and publications. I've just given a very brief introduction to Veronica's beautiful art. Please visit her website to view all her beautiful work. You can also see her utility box transformation in full here on journal here.

Inner Works artist Veronica Funk.

Today's post presents the work of artist Veronica Funk. These are the pages Veronica did in my book "Gifts from the Sea" part of Inner Works, a round robin altered book collaboration.

Veronica is a wonderful artist, and a fellow Canadian. Her work is very colorful yet her interior scenes depict quiet places where one can curl up with a good book and read and relax for hours. Her landscapes are vivid and capture the Canadian landscape beautifully. And I really like her still lifes and animals. Please visit Veronica's website, Etsy shop, and blog and flickr.

In my book Veronica made use of cool watery colors and lots of words and text. She captured the essence of the author Anne Morrow Lindbergh and also the feeling of water. I really like the use of this fish image because it's been taken from the original book that I used, altered slightly and put back onto the page. Well done.

Watercolor is a medium that's particularly suited to my book's theme and Veronica has used it well, don't you think??

Thanks Veronica for the beautiful work that you added to my book. It was a great pleasure working with you and all the talented artists of the Inner Works group.