{"id":11,"date":"2017-05-09T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pninagranirer.com\/newsite\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:07:58","slug":"about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pninagranirer.com\/","title":{"rendered":"WELCOME!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pnina has a new book!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Garden of Words<\/em> can now be ordered online at Chapters Indigo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis poignant\u202fcollection serves as an important reminder <\/em>of\u202fthe fragile and tenuous nature\u202fof our own existence, the <\/em>incredible power of art, love, community and the\u202fawe\u0002inspiring mystery, beauty and hope we can all find when <\/em>we take the time\u202fto reconnect with nature and ourselves.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2013 Paul F. Crawford
\nDirector\/Curator\u202fat Penticton Art Gallery<\/p>\n

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\"PninaYou are invited to enter and experience my world of images and words. After a lifetime of painting life with brush and colour, at the end of my seventh decade the world presented itself in words. My memoir, Life within the Shadows<\/em>, was born.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was unprepared for the creative difference between painting and writing. In painting, the details are seen in their entirety throughout the creative process. The writer, on the other hand, covers page after page with words and sentences that have to be read one by one and never seen at a single glance. The singular element foreign to painting, but inextricably linked with writing, is the element of time. One needs a certain time to read a book, while a painting may be seen in seconds, minutes or hours, according to the viewer\u2019s wishes. The hackneyed phrase that \u2018an image is worth one thousand words\u2019 may well be true, but along with my paintings, now I need those thousand words to tell my stories. This memoir is an attempt to shine some light into the nooks and crannies of a journey that pointed me inexorably towards a final destination: art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Excerpt From: Pnina Granirer. \u201cLight Within the Shadows: A Painter\u2019s Memoir\u201d, published by Granville Island Publishing in May 2017. (see ‘Books’ section<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Pnina Granirer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pnina has a new book! Garden of Words can now be ordered online at Chapters Indigo. \u201cThis poignant\u202fcollection serves as an important reminder of\u202fthe fragile and tenuous nature\u202fof our own existence, the incredible power of art, love, community and the\u202fawe\u0002inspiring mystery, beauty and hope we can all find when we take the time\u202fto reconnect with … <\/p>\n

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