From Montreal🇨🇦 to Zürich🇨🇭
I can still feel the sun peeking through the side window of my last apartment in Montreal and I can still hear the sounds of the busy...
is a self-taught French Canadian artist from Montreal, Canada who now lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Her art includes performances, photography, videography, paintings, storytelling, sculptures and recipe development.
Ariel’s practice focuses on personal growth and cultivating a positive outlook on life’s challenges, which is evident in her art. Guided by her changing emotions, wins, and struggles, she illustrates the various stages of the human experience through abstract and figurative lenses.
Her work features recurring themes of nature, growth, joy, hope, pain, sadness, love, evolution, connectivity, and spirituality.
Sustainability is also an important aspect of Miss Rebel’s work, as seen in some of the materials she uses to create her art.
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Art has always been the essence of who I am.
From my earliest memories, it has been a crucial outlet for self-expression and to understanding the whirlwind of emotions within me. It served as a refuge, helping to soothe the confusion, alienation and anxiety I often felt, standing out as the odd one in many rooms.
My journey in the arts, as displayed on this website, has been far from straightforward.
I've always been drawn to the performing arts, dedicating many early years to acting, singing, modelling and theatre.
This passion eventually led me behind the camera, where I also found much joy (and still do) in collaborating with other creatives to create beautiful imagery.
However, as the years passed, a craving for new challenges emerged, guiding me to explore other facets of my creativity that had been dormant or underdeveloped.
It was around 2020 when painting began to shape my evolution.
Without realizing it, the practice quickly became a vital part of my identity, a tool for a deeper introspection than I had ever experienced.
It opened doors of my subconscious that I had not explored, made me laugh and cry (a lot), and showed me things about myself I hadn't seen until then.
It's safe to say that without painting, I wouldn't be the same person, and in some ways, it saved me.
We often hear that art saves lives and in my case it definitely rings true.