{"id":25,"date":"2022-06-10T17:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2022-07-01T00:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T00:12:52","slug":"about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"About Miriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Montreal, and am currently based in Toronto. I would define myself first as an impressionist painter, and second as an experimental media artist.\u00a0 As an OCAD drawing and painting graduate traditional oil painting techniques have always started my process of creating images and stories on canvas. My work is constantly changing. It is focused more on the principles of movement, colour, shape and form. It has been liberating to start experimenting with different materials, allowing me to lift ideas off the surface to create relief sculptural objects from the ready-made. As a visual arts specialist, I have devoted the last 11 years to teaching and facilitating art workshops within the community.\u00a0 Private and corporate commissions have been my biggest achievements thus far in the Arts.\u00a0 Connecting with others enriches my creative process.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2131\" height=\"1628\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FullSizeRender-8-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FullSizeRender-8-3.jpg 2131w, https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FullSizeRender-8-3-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FullSizeRender-8-3-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FullSizeRender-8-3-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FullSizeRender-8-3-1536x1173.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FullSizeRender-8-3-2048x1565.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2131px) 100vw, 2131px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Montreal, and am currently based in Toronto. I would define myself first as an impressionist painter, and second as an experimental media artist.\u00a0 As an OCAD drawing and painting graduate traditional oil painting techniques have always started my process of creating images and stories on canvas. My work is constantly changing. It is focused more on the principles of movement, colour, shape and form. It has been liberating to start experimenting with different materials, allowing me to lift ideas off the surface to create relief sculptural objects from the ready-made. As a visual arts specialist, I have devoted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":514,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamherlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}