Biography
NRUNSER has been passionate about painting since adolescence, she has always known she’d pursue her dream of becoming a full-time artist.
In 1995, NRUNSER’s work was selected for a curated month-long exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
NRUNSER moved to Vancouver in 1997 to study makeup at Blanche Macdonald Centre. She later earned a diploma in Media and Motion Picture Arts from Capilano University and began working in the film industry. Seeking to expand her creative pursuits, she went on to complete the Small Business and Entrepreneurship program at Langara College, with a focus on building her painting business. A few years later, she studied Meisner acting, which proved valuable for her work in the acting industry. Continuing to evolve as an artist, NRUNSER returned to Langara College to take a Mixed Media and Collage course. Followed by deepening her artistic practice at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she studied The Built Surface: Paint and Collage, Painting Fundamentals for the Composition Process, and Form Concepts in Contemporary Painting.
In 2001, N R UNSER’s artwork was chosen to be featured on silk street banners that hung along Main Street in Vancouver, BC. The Vancouver Courier profiled NRUNSER and her work on the front page and wrote an article about her in their Volume 92, Number 57 publication on July 18th, 2001
NRUNSER worked as a SFX makeup artist in the film industry and in a special effects shop for over a decade, gaining advanced creative skills in lifecasting, sculpting, molding, and airbrush painting prosthetic makeup effects for commercials, TV shows, and movies.
NRUNSER ran a business downtown Vancouver for fifteen years, where her paintings attracted international clients—many clients discovered the paintings displayed on the walls was her work. This evolved into a solo gallery space. Today, NRUNSER is dedicated to sharing her work with a global audience.
NRUNSER believes that life is all about the little things that bring us joy—like having an original painting on your wall. She envisions her artwork adding a sense of beauty, warmth, and enjoyment to everyday life. Her creative drive is rooted in a simple intention: to create original art that evokes joy and fosters a sense of connection with the viewer. For NRUNSER, there’s nothing quite like coming home to a cozy, welcoming space that truly feels like home.
Artist Statement
N R UNSER has always been inquisitive and has had an appetite for knowledge to learn, evolve, refine and expand her consciousness as well as to express herself through different forms of creativity from telling stories through visual art, to educational political art or creative writing. She loves to evoke different emotions in others, to impact and make people think outside of the box, to educate or simply to keep her viewers engaged long after her work has been hung on a wall.
N R UNSER is always in her element during the creative process – She enjoys creating different bodies of work being she loves working with many different mediums and has a lot of different creative ideas that she wants to explore and express with her artistic voice.
N R UNSER’s work is her legacy to the world therefore she strictly works with archival art gallery grade materials, pigments, mediums, canvases and cradled wood panels; being she wants her work to last for decades to come so the paintings can be passed down to multiple generations.
Her paintings are created to enhance your environment wherever that may be. She believes things in life that provide enjoyment such as having an original painting on your wall can make you smile inwards and brighten up your day. It brings N R UNSER pleasure to know that her work is being enjoyed in one’s house, beach home, vacation house, condo lobby or office where the general public can also enjoy the painting.
N R UNSER’s website currently showcases two recent bodies of work on a smaller scale. One series is a mixture of encaustic, rust, copper patinas, acrylic and found objects that she aged to represent weathered treasures that you may find outside in nature. The second series N R UNSER wanted a challenge so she used an unconventional thin flat metal clay tool to paint with, being this tool provided less control while she built up multiple layers of paint to create texture and depth on the abstract paintings.
N R UNSER is currently working on a new abstract series with minimal mark making. This body of work is about releasing stagnant energy and emotions through the movement of energy to create moody gestures and marks. N R UNSER uses a neutral color palette with different shades of blacks, greys, whites, off whites, tans, light browns and a splash of blues and or greens to add a bit of color. Each painting created is unique and invokes its own movement of energy.
Biography
NRUNSER is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver whose lifelong passion for painting has continuously guided her creative path. At eighteen, her work was selected for a curated exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. An early milestone that affirmed her commitment to becoming a full-time artist.
She moved to Vancouver at twenty-one and, by twenty-five, had earned diplomas from Blanche Macdonald Centre for Global Makeup and Capilano University in Media and Motion Picture Arts. For over a decade, NRUNSER worked as a special effects (SPFX) makeup artist in the film industry, both on set and in a special effects studio. During this time, she developed advanced skills in lifecasting, sculpting, molding, and airbrushing prosthetic makeup effects for commercials, TV shows, and movies. While this career offered creative and financial stability, her deepest artistic fulfillment has always stemmed from painting.
Her work was later selected to be featured on silk screened street banners displayed along Main Street in Vancouver, B.C. The Vancouver Courier showcased her on the front page and published a feature article highlighting her artistic journey and work. To support the growth of her painting business and further her creative pursuits, NRUNSER earned a diploma in Small Business and Entrepreneurship from Langara College. She trained in Meisner acting as a way to deepen her artistic voice and further develop her creative expression. Continuing to evolve as an artist, NRUNSER returned to Langara College to take a Mixed Media and Collage course. This was followed by deepening her artistic practice at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she studied The Built Surface: Paint and Collage, Painting Fundamentals for the Composition Process, and Form Concepts in Contemporary Painting.
For fifteen years, NRUNSER ran a business in downtown Vancouver, B.C., where her paintings attracted an international clientele. What began as displaying her artwork within her business space gradually evolved into a solo gallery, where she showcased and successfully sold many of her original paintings.
Currently, NRUNSER is focused on building a sustainable, full-time art practice and reaching new audiences both locally and globally. She creates art with the intention of creating a strong emotional response of inner joy and offering a sense of comfort and resonance in the spaces where her work is displayed. Her abstract art invites open interpretation, sparks conversation, and encourages deeper engagement. Her creative drive is rooted in a simple intention: to create original art that stirs up happy emotions and fosters meaningful connections with both viewers and collectors. For NRUNSER, there’s nothing quite like returning to a cozy, welcoming space that truly feels like home with beautiful paintings on her wall.
Artist Statement
Her work is a continuous dialogue between what she envisions and the introspective process that unfolds as she creates each piece. Painting allows her to explore and work through her most contemplative, introspective, reflective thoughts about life and the world. She navigates dynamic contrasts between conflict and calm, striving to cultivate resonance and balance within her work to create atmospheric paintings that are both emotionally impactful and influential, allowing both herself and the viewer to experience them with renewed emotion and presence. Her work aims to ignite a new lease on life, reawaken one’s life force, and stimulate a sense of renewal. Her intention is to inspire introspective reflection, offering joy and inspiration to both the viewer and the artist.
When NRUNSER paints, she nourishes her life force energy and cultivates her creative practice, drawing from Qigong techniques and mindfulness. Her approach includes understanding the energy flow within her body, aligning internal and external movements, and recognizing the interconnectedness of mind and body, as well as the rhythm of her life-force breath, to stay balanced. Throughout her creative process, she strives to find balance through her use of various mediums as she builds layers, depths, shapes, colors, textures, compositions, and interwoven expressive mark-making gestures that offer complex dynamic interplay to capture a wide range of visual intensities.