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Gallery/Portfolios » Buziak
Aon Celtic Art
Cari Buziak currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, with her husband, her two cats, and four gerbils. She enjoys creating costumes and also plays a little wire strung Celtic harp named Meghan. Her favourite mediums are watercolor, acrylic and her Macintosh. Using many of the old mediums and techniques, such as hand made gesso, egg tempera, and gold leaf, she creates original Celtic paintings, and recreations of ancient manuscripts.
Cari had the recent honor of being invited to Ireland for the summer of 2000, to work as the artist for an archaeology dig. The Ballykilcline Project, centered in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, gave her the opportunity to reconstruct artifacts by sketching, create promotional paintings of the dig site, and also to further her own research into Celtic art and mythology.
Current works include illuminated pagework, book and CD cover illustrations, computer game graphics (Mythic Entertainment, Silverthorne Games), rubber stamp designs (Stamp Oasis, Enchanted Ink, Heather's Stamping Haven, designing for Irish Dance dresses (Celtic Image, Needle & Thread), jewelry designs (Aon Celtic Rings with Tradeshop.com), and other commissioned works. Cari also creates designs for her own clothing line, Aon, which features embroidered and silkscreened designs inspired by Celtic art. She has had showings of her artworks in London, England (1998), The Glenbow Museum of Calgary (1998), the Con-Version Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention (1994-2000), Nolan & Reid's Fine Art and Framing in Calgary (1997-2000), The Centre Gallery in Calgary (2001), and in the Comhaltas Exhibition in Toronto (2001). Two pieces of her artwork were also selected for Alphamark, a juried international exhibit which traveled on a world tour from 1999 through to 2002. Cari has sold worldwide, and her artwork appears in private collections in Canada, Europe, and the United States.
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