Connextions 2025: Nature's Collection by Andrea Manica

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As part of the Connextions 2025 project, see Andrea Manica's vinyl artwork, Nature's Collection, on display outside of Trafalgar Park Community Centre.

Andrea offers the following description of her work:

This set of three pieces of digital art entitled Nature’s Collection is based on a mural I completed at Bluewater Health Hospital in Sarnia in 2022. The intention of the mural was to enliven the atmosphere and promote healing on an emotional and spiritual level with images of nature and vibrant playful colours. I believe that having art present in our public settings adds to our overall well being. Collecting segments of nature such as flowers and butterflies and showcasing them in a simple way, brings the viewer’s attention to the simplicity of beauty that is available to us, if we stop and pay attention to the little things.

About the artist:

Andrea Manica is a freelance mural painter, illustrator and artist living in Hamilton Ontario since 2022. She graduated from OCAD University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Design in Illustration in 2013. She has been painting exterior murals since 2013 in Ontario and internationally. She also creates digital artwork to be enlarged as public art, such as this piece.

Andrea’s artwork is inspired by emotions, spiritual symbols, themes of belonging, and our relationship to the natural world. Andrea is a member of the LGBT+ community and this informs her artwork and practice.

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Town of Oakville

The Town of Oakville is located on Treaty 14 and 22 lands, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and the Haudenosaunee. Oakville is home to many different First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. A vibrant and impressive community within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the Town of Oakville is a beautiful lakeside town with a strong heritage, preserved and celebrated by residents and visitors alike. Since the 1800s, it has become one of the most coveted areas to live and work in Ontario, with 225,000 residents calling Oakville home. The town offers all the advantages of a well-serviced urban centre with first-rate facilities and amenities while maintaining its small-town feel.