SERENA FENTON

My work explores archetypes and memory, as well as focusing on the irony of daily life. I create improvisational landscapes with illusory animals and birds.

I spent my younger years in the mountains and wide open spaces of the American West. My family was pioneering ranchers and homesteaders in Oklahoma and Alberta.

I come from a long line of makers. On the frontier, if you couldn’t make it, you probably wouldn’t have it. Fooling around with stuff just comes naturally.

I see my work as following in the American Magical Realism tradition of Wanda Gag, Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.