Siana Goodwin

Hi I'm Siana! Creator of Siana's Canvas and passionate artist/illustrator Feel free to drop me an email at [email protected] or follow me on facebook and instagram @sianascanvas

Siana Goodwin

Yellow

Blue was a self portrait, Pink was a self portrait. It was beginning to be too much of ‘me’. My focus with the first two was body acceptance, self acceptance, positivity, and love. Blue also had meanings connected to mental health. But I was only representing a very minor part of the population as a young, white female. At this point, Black Lives Matter was rising again, the media was beginning to flag up names and statistics and People from all over the world were speaking up. While I didn’t w
Siana Goodwin
Siana Goodwin
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Blue

Lockdown was just starting to ease up. Like most of the world, I'd had enough of pacing around the same living space, so I started taking myself on solo dates. Trips to spice up my life, enjoy my own company, explore things I sometimes didn't have time to go and see while I was studying. And so on one rainy day I went to Bath. Why did I go to Bath? Well here's the important back story.. While I was painting my A-Level final piece through lockdown, the lady who cleans our house agreed to contin
Siana Goodwin
Siana Goodwin
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Pink

Pink was the one that set Siana's Canvas going. Not really, not entirely, in reality Siana's Canvas has been brewing all my life. The creative edge waiting to blossom and follow all sorts of different paths. But this is the painting that broke the nervous seal. In lockdown 1 back in 2020 (after a creative dry spell) just following A-Levels, I decided then was the perfect time to pick up my paintbrush and just paint what I wanted to paint. No brief, no "you haven't done enough research" or "w
Siana Goodwin
Siana Goodwin
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How is Social Media really affecting us?

“How does social media affect young people’s mental health- in particular, depression and anxiety?”
Siana Goodwin
Siana Goodwin
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The piece of art that made me want to talk

Vincent Van Gogh's oil painting: 'the potato eaters', also known by its Dutch name 'De Aardappelters'. Painted in 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands, one of the many accommodations for Van Gogh during his lifetime. "Aardappel", the word for potato, translates literally to "Earth Apple" which perfectly reflects the worth of the potatoes to this family, it is their own fruit straight from the earth which they work with. I first came across this painting on a trip to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam an
Siana Goodwin
Siana Goodwin
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Moon

A reflection of a sunlight we will never see, someone else's sunlight, sunrise, sunset. A reflection of another world, a ball of fire turned cold, silver night, a magical shiver of moonshadow. A glimmer of mystery from a mass of rock and iron and.. cheese? Iron that casts metallic orbs across our everynight, our night cloaked in darkness, yet advertising a glimmer of hope. A glimmer of hope of tomorrow, the sunlight a new day will bring, or perhaps the beauty of yesterday? The remaining blanket
Siana Goodwin
Siana Goodwin
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