Mona Forster

Mona Forster paints places of refuge — flowers, light, and hidden pathways — for people who need beauty to make sense of an overwhelming world.

Artist Statement

Mona Forster has been making art since childhood — first with pencil, pen and ink, then watercolour, which she discovered while on breaks while working at a remote mine in the Northwest Territories. Over the years a demanding career in the natural resource sector, with its constant travel and full-tilt pace, gradually crowded out her practice. The paintings waited. When life shifted and the space to make art opened up, Mona returned to it completely. She now works out of Parker Street Studios in Vancouver, painting in oils, acrylics, and watercolour — often on a larger scale than before. Her recent body of work, gathered under the title Finding Hope in Chaos, explores beauty as a form of resilience: flowers, light, hidden thresholds, and the quiet places we find — or imagine — when the world asks too much of us.