Biography:

“My art is a very personal presentation of who I am.”

“Fantasy - our desires, our hopes and glories - is more important to me than reality.”

Terra Nova Rubacha describes her work as Representational Expressionism. She presents imagined microcosms of realistic, yet exaggerated human figures and landscapes that showcase the beauty hidden within.

Her imagination wanders through fascinations with light, emotion, harmony, the majesty and mysterious wonder of nature and the frail delicacy of the grotesque, to arrive at a magical portrayal of the inner world.

Noted for careful consideration of detail, Terra Nova spurns direct symbolism in favour of a more subtle visual poetry.

Her love of watercolour waned recently and was replaced with a yearning for the opaque. This led her initially to acrylics but she has now landed firmly in a lust for gouache. A more natural transition from watercolour, gouache lies flat and velvety upon the surface of paper and can also be combined with watercolour to great effect. This revived her former interest and built upon it.

She has attended both the Ontario College of Art, and the Nova Scotia College of Art but found it unsatisfying and left to pursue a less contrived path of learning.

Hailing from rural Ontario and having lived most of her adult life in Nova Scotia, she now lives between the two and considers both to be home.