I'm a former independent experimental animator, screenwriter, and technical writer. I have an MFA degree in film production (U. Southern California), a BSc in biology, and an MSc in neuroscience (U. British Columbia). As an INTJ personality, my strength is introverted intuition; I'm now an intuitive painter. I create Surrealist Symbolist paintings, where the spontaneous figurative images often produce a kind of cinematic narrative with unexpected meanings. Seven paintings have been sold (numbers 16, 37, 87, 91, 105, 108, and 111). I had one curated solo exhibition and two juried group exhibitions. See my gallery in a nicer layout on *Flickrock.*

~ Filmmaker C.V.

~ 1998 NFB animated film now playing on Flickr: "Transfigured" 5 min.

~ 2003 animated hyperlapse film on Flickr: "Tran Scan" 8 min. (CCA grant)

~ 2025 photo book of 147 paintings, hardcover: Preview on Blurb

Image licenses: FREE to use as editorial illustrations if attributed and not altered.

Original paintings: Email sxarthur@shaw.ca with shipping address and use PayPal or Interac e-Transfer; Canadian dollars (CAD).

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"While art movements have tended historically to be about the beauty or quality of the object produced, Surrealism produces art as a means rather than an end. It differs from standard avant-gardes in its refusal of originality and newness for their own sake. The [standard] avant-garde pushes the boundaries of aesthetics toward ever renewed expressive forms; Surrealism tends instead to use forms, new or traditional, as tools with which to express a particular spirit. This spirit is above all one of dissidence and defiance, subtended by a belief in the inexhaustible capacity for wonder that resides in each of us, here and now."

-- Mark Polizzotti, "Why Surrealism Matters", 2024, Yale University Press.