Lori Popadiuk spent her childhood in Vancouver trolling the alleys with her Granddad looking for cast-off materials to make cool things with. Her creative path began at this early age and eventually led her to study fine art and interior design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. By uniting the two crafts she gained wide recognition within the design world, mainly for her body of work Birch.

Lori’s pieces are about experimenting with the process more than the content or imagery. Her work stems from spontaneity and using her emotions as a spring board. Each painting starts out as a free flowing movement using ink & gesso then evolves into something specific, like wings or feathers and sometimes its more abstract. Lori uses painting as a way to process life experiences, in truth it is the conduit to her sanity. Lori has been exploring black and white materials exclusively since 2015. She notes the absence of colour gives solace to the simplicity and draws attention to what the viewer is ready to see, be it the light or the dark, the positive or the negative, the chaos or the calm. 

Lori has exhibited her work internationally and can be found in collections all over the world.

Instagram @loripopart

 Website loripop.com