The work depicts the Divine Mother watching over her ‘children’ and helping them to grow and develop their full potential. While the Divine Mother is available and attending to her children, she is not able to protect them from all the dangers they may encounter. However, the children always have access to the mother and can reach out for and receive her guidance and protection at any time - even as they continue to live their life journey to fulfilling their own potential.
The Divine Feminine is a spiritual entity which embodies principles that can be brought to address all healing needed in our communities. This installation reaches into the roots of the ancient history of the Divine Mother - the life force which is nurturing, compassionate, beneficent and also the terrifying and implacable force of destruction which can nevertheless regenerate what it has destroyed. The Divine Mother is known in many cultures across the world. Today her images and symbols are being revived to re-educate us about her powers and to use them to address the issues we are trying to solve in the present and guide us to a more positive future.
Elsa Robinson is a Jamaican-Canadian multi-media artist and art educator. Elsa’s artistic expression uses painting, collage, textile art, installation art, poetry, dance, and acting to ‘speak’ to audiences from her cultural inheritance. Her decades-long devotion to artistic practice has imbued her work with vibrancy, versatility and an intuitive spiritual poignancy through which she transmits her deep love and care for humanity.
At the start of her art career, Elsa worked as a self-taught artist. Recognizing the value of extending her art making skills, her understanding of he own art and her place in art history, Elsa invested in her art education and now holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Art and Design from the University of Alberta and the degree of Master of Fine Arts from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Elsa is a passionate arts educator who facilitates workshops for artists of all ages and experience levels.