Expressing Spirituality Through Art

Sister Marie Celine Janisse, Artist

Sister Marie Celine is a missionary/artist who served in the Zaña Valley, Chiclayo, Peru for eleven and a half years with other missionaries, who shared the Peruvian people’s struggle to live, work, and grow personally and communally, in creating more dignified and acceptable standards of living.

The devotion to, and the love for the people of the Zaña Valley of Peru, is what inspires Sister Marie Celine’s artwork. The unique way of life of the Peruvian people moved her to depict various aspects of their magnificent spirit of friendliness, warmth and celebration. She was energized by their courage and determination to overcome obstacles and remedy their situation, however impoverished.

The great beauty and mystery of Peru lies in its people and in its rich, colourful and awesome artistic culture. It is a country endowed with a remarkable history from the Pre-Hispanic to the present. These are the "treasures" that impelled Sister Marie Celine to represent both a rich and impoverished people, and to provide a glimpse of that richness, through her artwork, to our North American society.

Sister Marie Celine’s artwork is displayed in the Heart-Links Gift Shop. All proceeds from the sale of her art work, depicting the lives of Peruvian people, is donated to Heart-Links: A Peru-Canada Project.

For more information

Contact Sister Marie Celine Janisse
1486 Richmond St, P.O. Box 443
London, Ontario Canada N6A 4W1

Phone (519) 432-3781 Ext 227
Fax (519) 472-1190
E-mai:l info@heart-links.org