{"id":3913,"date":"2022-02-23T14:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/?post_type=product&p=3913"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:25:26","slug":"luminous","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/product\/luminous\/","title":{"rendered":"Luminous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Dayan Frimer<\/strong> is an internationally recognized artist whose work addresses questions of culture, memory, trauma and reverence for the natural environment. She is a celebrated facilitator and painter who produces cultural, commemora- tive, educational and esthetically powerful contributions, and whose artworks have been described as \u201cimpactful,\u201d \u201cstun- ning,\u201d \u201cemotionally moving,\u201d \u201centhralling\u201d and \u201cmeaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in the wilderness town of Wells, British Columbia, from a young age Frimer was immersed in in the wonder of the forest, rivers and mountains. It was in these formative years, surrounded by the awe-inspiring natural landscape, that Frimer developed her creative vision. It was also during these early years when she first learned of war and cultural suffering. Becoming determined to champion and protect the sanctity of all life forms, Frimer turned to the creation of art as her natural medium.<\/p>\n

Frimer\u2019s artworks have repeatedly been called upon to represent\u2014through fundraising, awareness and education\u2014the work of environmental organizations, such as the\u00a0Trans Canada Trail, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, who promote Canada\u2019s vast cultural and geographic diversity, wilderness preservation and the interdependency of nature and wildlife, and spread knowledge about endangered species. Paul George, former Director of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, has offered that perhaps equally important to the fundraising, Frimer\u2019s work \u201ctouched upon the emotional and spiritual cords, where real change occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alongside Frimer\u2019s artworks championing the environment, significant collections and donations of her works have support-\u00a0 <\/span>ed Margaret Laurence House, Canadian Red Cross, Canadian Cancer Society, Vancouver General Hospital, Richmond General Hospital, Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation, Wells Community Hall and the Vancouver Art Gallery, among others. She is the recipient of many awards, including an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of the Fraser Valley. Her murals illuminate hospital walls, synagogue sanctuaries and university corridors, where it has been said they \u201coffer healing colours that\u00a0contain emotional, life enforcing light, a calming rhythmic movement and imaginative forms\u00a0that are visionary.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>Frimer has facilitated cultural healing workshops between various cultural groups. She is co-founder and facilitator of the Gesher Holocaust Project, in which she developed techniques and worked with multi- generations of Holocaust survivors and their children to release trauma through art. This project resulted in the creation of powerful commemorative works of art that were exhibited throughout major cities in North America under the auspices\u00a0of the Montreal Holocaust Centre.<\/p>\n

Frimer is co-author of In Honour of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival, a collaboration between two Jewish and two First Nations artists and poets that brought together research and creative exploration as a means to process trauma associated with cultural oppression and at- tempted genocide. In her book A Wilderness Journey, Frimer explores the inextricable link between her own ancestral story, her love of the wilderness and cultural resilience.<\/p>\n

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In her memoir, artist Linda Dayan Frimer traces the layered histories of art and the artists of each era alongside her family\u2019s journey from Eastern Europe to the wilderness of western Canada. Born in Wells, and later spending her childhood in nearby Prince George, Frimer\u2019s development as an artist was intimately impacted by her upbringing in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. It was here that Frimer developed a deep empathy and reverence for the First Nations of Canada, who were on this land thousands of years before European colonization. It was also here that Frimer first realized that nature and culture rose inseparable in creation, and that she had a responsibility to both.<\/p>\n

Throughout her book, Frimer strives to break down barriers between varying perspectives, while guiding the reader through a series of artistic exercises designed to cultivate imagination and to foster cultural and environmental healing through creativity. Accompanied by her acclaimed artwork, close examination of art history and theory, and exploration of Jewish spirituality, Frimer explores the power of colour, the symbols that help to give life meaning, and the importance of creativity in not only protecting, but ennobling existence. Luminous<\/i> aims to inspire each of us to become the artist of our own story.<\/p>\n

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ISBN: 9781989467213 (full colour, Hardcover). $59.95 CAD, $49.95 USD.\u00a0Available via your local bookstore, Indigo-Chapters<\/span>,\u00a0<\/a> <\/span>or Amazon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

ISBN: 9781989467220 (full colour, Softcover). $44.95 CAD, $39.95 USD. Available via your local bookstore, Indigo-Chapters<\/span><\/a>, or Amazon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Size: 11.00 x 11.00 inches
\nPages: 288
\nPublished: September 2022<\/p>\n

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