Ocean Streeter
About Ocean Streeter
Ocean Streeter (they/she/he) is an encaustic artist based in Toronto, Ontario. They have been practicing this medium since 2013 and have been co-teaching encaustic workshops yearly at Southampton Art Centre since 2019. Ocean teaches alongside their mother, Marianne Gibson, who initially began instructing the weekend workshop with Gail Streeter in 2012. Ocean is currently enrolled at Humber College in the Visual & Digital Art program. Ocean’s work exhibits interest in the natural, life/death and the mind’s conception. Relevant experience and understanding result in her artwork having a youthful sense of play, nostalgia, and freedom. There is strength in the ability to manipulate a medium in order to say what words cannot, knowing each viewer will experience the artwork differently. Ocean is inspired to emit art that depicts the creative mind through automatism using simple shapes and forms while maintaining a sense of unpredictability through self-determined visuals.