~ Projects & Milestones ~
Subscribers Outdoor Events Contest!
Subscribers Outdoor Events Contest!
Subscribers Outdoor Events Contest!
During this summer Outdoors and Shows Events I had my sign up sheet for my Newsletter and everyone who signed up participated in a contest to win 3 prizes!
Happy to report the three winners have been contacted and they have chosen their prizes and will come get them soon!!!
Yay!
Sooke Fine Arts Show 2022
Subscribers Outdoor Events Contest!
Subscribers Outdoor Events Contest!
I am delighted to be one more year part of this incredible event.
It has to be one of the biggest most beautifully put together and curated art exhibitions on Vancouver Island.
I will be participating on a Live Demo Presentation Monday July 25th from 3:00 to 5:00 pm
and it will be the last chance for anyone to sing up to my newsletter and
I am delighted to be one more year part of this incredible event.
It has to be one of the biggest most beautifully put together and curated art exhibitions on Vancouver Island.
I will be participating on a Live Demo Presentation Monday July 25th from 3:00 to 5:00 pm
and it will be the last chance for anyone to sing up to my newsletter and participate in a draw to win an original artwork on canvas, an original watercolour on paper and an original wood-burning/painted ornament.
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Summer Art Show by Arts & Culture Colwood
Summer Art Show by Arts & Culture Colwood
Summer Art Show by Arts & Culture Colwood
July 23er, 2022
Very glad to be sharing a tent with a dear friend and fellow artist Linda Kirstein Saturday July 23rd at the Summer art Show Hosted by Arts and culture Colwood.
Taking place at the beautiful Meadow Park (along the swale)
I will be there in the afternoon and some of my minis will be on showcase and I will bring my watercolours too!
Hope to see you there!
TD Art Gallery Paint In 2022 ~ 33rd Year
Summer Art Show by Arts & Culture Colwood
Summer Art Show by Arts & Culture Colwood
July 17th, 2022
Moss and May #106
It was an amazing experience being able to meet SO MANY of you who have been loving my work since I started!
I got to meet so many NEW faces and I really am humbled by the things I was told yesterday.
It truly was a great reality check where many commented how truly much they
July 17th, 2022
Moss and May #106
It was an amazing experience being able to meet SO MANY of you who have been loving my work since I started!
I got to meet so many NEW faces and I really am humbled by the things I was told yesterday.
It truly was a great reality check where many commented how truly much they love my art! It’s empowering and humbling at the same time as these oil paintings were created with the very same hands that were blessed hugging yesterday!
And for so many of you to come over and take the time to tell me the connection and emotions you feel when staring at them face to face was … uffff! So so strong! So many emotions of joy and thankfulness and laughter and excitement mixed with shyness and sheer surprise! Thank you! From my heart to all those almost 500 souls that stopped by (there was a moment I was talking to a lady who asked me for my card, I leaned over to handle her one and to my surprise again and again the card holder was empty!) So thank you to each of you for taking the time and coming to see my work and talking to me!
Thank you to the new clients I will be working on commissions for! Thank you to everyone who have bought art from me before and stopped by to say hi! And thank you to everyone who is interested in one of the pieces they saw yesterday! So many conversations about San Josef Bay and Port Renfrew and the Into the Mist few pieces remaining were a hit!
~ Projects & Milestones ~
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Status
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Status
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Status
February 19, 2022
Today I would like to celebrate with you a huge milestone in my art path. Today I was juried into Active Status at the Federation of Canadian Artists.
"Joy of Being"
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Status
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Status
Kristin is a Certified Mastery Health Coach and helps people ignite their belief in themselves so they have permission to trust their inner leader and achieve what they want in life without limitations.
He has been working on a project that has evolved over the past 4 years into a book/journal that he has recently published in April 202
Kristin is a Certified Mastery Health Coach and helps people ignite their belief in themselves so they have permission to trust their inner leader and achieve what they want in life without limitations.
He has been working on a project that has evolved over the past 4 years into a book/journal that he has recently published in April 2022.
This book/journal It is about living with more presence in life and finding the joy in each day.
And I feel extremely honoured that he has chosen my art to illustrate it.
Bronze Award "Kananaskis"
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Status
Honourable Mention "Jade and Gold"
May 31, 2021
Dear Mara;
Attached you will find the award certificate for your artwork in Camelback Gallery’s Land and Sea 2021 Competition. Please double check your certificate and let us know if there are any changes or edits necessary. Thank you for being a part of our community of artists and congratulations!
Kind Regards,
The CB Team
Ca
May 31, 2021
Dear Mara;
Attached you will find the award certificate for your artwork in Camelback Gallery’s Land and Sea 2021 Competition. Please double check your certificate and let us know if there are any changes or edits necessary. Thank you for being a part of our community of artists and congratulations!
Kind Regards,
The CB Team
Camelback Gallery
https://www.camelbackgallery.com/
ART COMPETITIONS | EXHIBITIONS | FEATURED ARTISTS
Honourable Mention "Jade and Gold"
Certificate of Appreciation by Justice Canada
Honourable Mention "Jade and Gold"
February 27, 2021
Hello Mara,
Congratulations! We are happy to tell you that your work is included in the ABSTRACT show. Your piece "Jade & Gold" won an Honourable Mention Award.
Thank you for being a part of ABSTRACT and Gallery Ring.
Gallery Ring team.
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Honourable Mention "Broken"
Certificate of Appreciation by Justice Canada
Certificate of Appreciation by Justice Canada
November 3, 2021
Hello Mara,
Congratulations! We are happy to tell you that your work is included in the ABSTRACT show. Your piece "Broken" won an Honourable Mention Award.
Thank you for being a part of ABSTRACT and Gallery Ring.
Gallery Ring team.
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Certificate of Appreciation by Justice Canada
Certificate of Appreciation by Justice Canada
Certificate of Appreciation by Justice Canada
Hello Mara,
On behalf of the entire CSJR team, I would like to thank you for your participation in the exhibition "Crossroads of life: My story behind the work".
Your work particularly touched us and we are happy that it was able to be selected among the 250 works received. Thank you for taking the time to write the story behind this on
Hello Mara,
On behalf of the entire CSJR team, I would like to thank you for your participation in the exhibition "Crossroads of life: My story behind the work".
Your work particularly touched us and we are happy that it was able to be selected among the 250 works received. Thank you for taking the time to write the story behind this one with truth and confidence. It is these shared life stories that resonated deeply with us when we visited the exhibition.
This exhibition, produced in collaboration with the online art gallery Gallea, was financially supported by the National Victims and Survivors Week (Justice Canada). We are happy to send you a certificate thanking you for your participation in this Week.
Estelle Drouvin
Coordinator of the Restorative Justice Services Center
www.csjr.org
United Colours of Design ~ "Orange" Issue
Victoria Arts Council Until: Prequel Magazine
United Colours of Design ~ "Orange" Issue
JANUARY 1, 2022
Super happy to share again that two of my beautiful paintings " Letting go" & "String of lights by the pier" (currently available) have been selected and published in this beautiful magazine!
United Colours of Design ~ "Coral" Issue
Victoria Arts Council Until: Prequel Magazine
United Colours of Design ~ "Orange" Issue
OCTOBER 21 2021
Super happy to share that two of my beloved paintings. The Sooke Fine Art Show selected "Jesse Island" (Sold to a private collector in California)and the delicate "Pampas Grass"(currently available) have been selected and published in this beautiful magazine.
Victoria Arts Council Until: Prequel Magazine
Victoria Arts Council Until: Prequel Magazine
Victoria Arts Council Until: Prequel Magazine
I am super excited to share with you that one of my abstracts from 2020 has been selected to be part of the Until: The Prequel Magazine by Victoria Arts Council!
"The Obelisk" which if you have read the "about me" section, you'll know how linked to me and my background it is! has made it to be part of this fun and filled with talented arti
I am super excited to share with you that one of my abstracts from 2020 has been selected to be part of the Until: The Prequel Magazine by Victoria Arts Council!
"The Obelisk" which if you have read the "about me" section, you'll know how linked to me and my background it is! has made it to be part of this fun and filled with talented artists magazine!
You don't know why "The Obelisk" is so important to me?
October Hill Fall 2020
CHRISSY'S AFRO-TEXTURED HAIR ILLUSTRATED BY SZYP
Victoria Arts Council Until: Prequel Magazine
Happy to announce that Szyp.ca made it again
to be published into this Poetry Magazine from New York!
“Elysium” & " Avalon" have been featured on their Fall 2020 issue.
Thank you
CHRISSY'S AFRO-TEXTURED HAIR ILLUSTRATED BY SZYP
CHRISSY'S AFRO-TEXTURED HAIR ILLUSTRATED BY SZYP
CHRISSY'S AFRO-TEXTURED HAIR ILLUSTRATED BY SZYP
Chrissy's Afro-Textured Hair Children's book
It was wonderful to see the 17 illustrations and the cover for the children’s book I had been working since November 2017 come to life. April 28 2019 book launched
ART HABENS INTERVIEW
CHRISSY'S AFRO-TEXTURED HAIR ILLUSTRATED BY SZYP
CHRISSY'S AFRO-TEXTURED HAIR ILLUSTRATED BY SZYP
We have been very impressed with your artistic production and we are glad to inform you that Mind-Full, Sunflower field, Paz and Driving a convertible have been selected for publication in the next Special edition of ART Habens Art Review. In particular, we have been highly impressed with your exploration of the relationship between reali
We have been very impressed with your artistic production and we are glad to inform you that Mind-Full, Sunflower field, Paz and Driving a convertible have been selected for publication in the next Special edition of ART Habens Art Review. In particular, we have been highly impressed with your exploration of the relationship between reality and imagination, we really appreciate the way your artistic research responds to Andreas Gursky's words, when he stated that artists should not be delivering any report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind reality, providing your audience with such multilayered intellectual-involvement. So we'll be pleased to submit you a personal interview that will be featured in the next special Biennial Edition of our art publication. Besides of those artworks, we have been impressed with further projects of yours, as the interesting La Barca, Dusk and Silver, that we'll be happy to include in your article, as well, in order to provide our readers with a wider idea of your multifaceted production. ...and in return of it you will receive a 32 pages article in the next issue of ART Habens Art Review. Sincerely, ART Habens Team Submission 2097 Mara SzypStatus: SELECTED
Thank you
2021 TD Artist Guide
2021 TD ARTIST GUIDE
I am very excited to share that I have received an email a few days ago where I learned that my work was accepted to be part of the @artgalleryvic 2021 TD Artist Guide.
Dear Mara G. Szyp,
We hope your summers are off to a wonderful start and are excited to have your work as part of the TD Artist Guide this year. We are looking forward to launching the virtual version of the Guide on July 1st. Copies of the printed guide will be available at the AGGV and select TD - you will receive an update as soon as it is available for pick up!
Published Books & Interviews
Szyp interview by Here! Magazine
Here! Magazine
My interview on HERE! Magazine was a great opportunity to talk about being an immigrant in this beautiful city and also feeling local after so many years of living here.
Jakelina Listes , Director of Partnership and Collaboration, did a terrific job interviewing me and her words and the way she tells my story could have not been better.
The Heroine's Journey Interview
I was approached by Peter De Kuster to see if I was interested in being interviewed by him.
He is going all around the world interviewing women that he feels have a story to tell.
I can’t explain in words how honoured and excited I felt when he invited me to be part of his
"Heroine's Journey"
So on AUGUST 12, 2019 my story became one more puzzle alongside incredible women!
Archipelago Art Gallery
The Archipelago Art Galley was a project started by President and Artist David Skrypnyk, who making incredibly beautiful arrangements was able to open an art gallery at a 1892 Character home in the heart of James Bay.
David Skrypnyk first found Mara when she was doing her ongoing show at Heron Bistro Restaurant. He fell in love with some of her artworks and he commissioned her to create two special pieces for him. "Mara Driving a Ferrari California" and "The Red Room". David Skrypnyk also bought 10 other artworks for his personal collection (photos available on gallery and sold pieces)
Later on he had Mara as a guest artist at the gallery and she would be booked in advance with visitors who wanted a guided tours with the creator of the 12 most controversial art pieces in one of the areas of the gallery.
Sadly, this Art Gallery did not survive the Covid-19 crisis.
William Head Institution’s 2ND ANNUAL COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FAIR
I feel incredibly proud to be the guest artist of the 2nd Annual Community Connections Fair. This year I will be there showing some of my most meaningful and controversial artworks (three of my definitely requested works Asia, Leroy and Zahid from the 8 piece and growing collection Children of our world/ Faces of war will be there!) and to answer any questions regarding my art that the visitors & guests may have for me.
Dr. Lisa Gunderson from One Love Consulting (https://oneloveconsulting.com) & Cecilia Rossander, Social Programs Officer at William Head Institution and on behalf of the Ethno Cultural Committee have invited me and I feel honoured to be part of this event.
I hope to see you there
Personaland
History
Personaland begun as a creative urge nearly forty years ago, visionary artist, Stewart Wilson, has fashioned over 31,000 individual sculptures - the Personas - wrapped representative from anther dimension. In addition to thes sculptures, Stewart has created thousands of drawings, paintings, prints and tableaus about them which have been exhibited and distributed world-wide. The Personas have been the topic of articles from the New York Times to MTV, Japanese fashion journals, Neiman Marcus catalogues and numerous art publications. Stewart has been co-founder of two non-profit arts organizations, Public Image (1980-84, NYC) and Art well Gallery (1995-2011, Northwest CT).
Stewart Wilson is a great human being and he has supported me from the start! Take a look into his world!
Voice of Eve Magazine
I was approached by the magazine's editor to see if I wanted to feature my work on their issue #20.
And then I got offered to be on the cover!!! and I got paid!
I was so exited about this!
it was one of those moments that you feel like running and phoning your mom and letting her know!
Sadly the magazine has closed down since.
But I got my moment of happy!
And I am very Thankful.
Szyp published by October Hill Magazine Spring Issue 2020
Extremely Thankful to have two of my artworks selected and published by this dear magazine once again!
Thank you team at October Hill Magazine, New York, USA.
A special mention to Samantha Morley for making it possible to share their issues with all of you!
Szyp published by October Hill Magazine Winter Issue 2019
Incredibly excited and proud of once again having my artworks and my poem published by the Remarkable team at October Hill Magazine, New York, USA.
Where the talented team led by Richard Merli puts together an outstanding selection of poems, fiction short stories, and art to invite the reader to dream with their eyes open.
October Hill Magazine
Szyp.ca Poetry made it to New York! “Golden Storm” has been featured on their Spring 2019 issue by October Hill Magazine.
Thank you Richard Merli and OHM team!
Everyday is shining brighter! Thank you to each of you who have been walking this path beside me!
Big hugs!!! Let’s celebrate 🥂!!!
"The Story" Book illustrated by Szyp
"The Story" Book
I have worked on a special project. I was contacted by a facilitator from the Saskatchewan correctional centre. They were running program to help people who for the wrong choices are inside and unable to maintain a strong relationship with their love ones.
Some of the participants of this program have decided to write books. Books that they hope, will help them rekindle that relationship. And I am so glad and thankful I had the chance to collaborate with them as illustrator of one of the books. Wyatt Bear is the author.
Sooke fine art show 2021
Jesse's Island
Even though it looks small is a 30 x 40 inches painting!
So excited to be a part of this show!
This is the piece that was juried for the show
So excited to be a part of this show!
Even though it looks small is a 30 x 40 inches painting!
So excited to be a part of this show!
Even though it looks small is a 30 x 40 inches painting!
Even though it looks small is a 30 x 40 inches painting!
Even though it looks small is a 30 x 40 inches painting!
Show by FCA (Federation of Canadian Artist)
Botany Bay Spirit Island in the Mist
Excited to have this piece juried for this show!
Excited to have this piece juried for this show!
this piece is still available
Excited to have this piece juried for this show!
Excited to have this piece juried for this show!
Excited to have this piece juried for this show!
This Unique Original Artwork is still available
Excited to have this piece juried for this show!
This Unique Original Artwork is still available
Wouldn't it look divine in your home?
Urban Arts Tour 2021
915 Dunmir
This painting got a lot of attention...
Urban Arts Tour 2021
Stop by and visit our little stand on this beautiful home and garden
Urban Arts Tour 2021
This painting got a lot of attention...
Urban Arts Tour 2021
We were invited to participate in this fun event by ECAH
This painting got a lot of attention...
This painting got a lot of attention...
This painting got a lot of attention...
As the rain was falling a few drops fell in her cheek making "Christmas Blue" even bluer.
Here Magazine Interview
Here Magazine interviews Mara G. Szyp from Szyp.ca
Being a woman, an immigrant, a minority, learning a different language alone, Experiencing discrimination at work, dealing with two unrelated cancers and....becoming an artist.