The Artist
Marjorie has been a professional artist for over 30 years, using her creative talents as a graphic designer, stained glass designer, scholastic illustrator, muralist and art conservationist. She has spent most of her working career as a graphic artist for the print industry and for the last 12 years as a monument designer. Years of working as a professional designer, coupled with her fine art background, Marjorie's artwork reflects the years of careful attention to detail, colour and form. Her artistic expressions have taken the form of metal sculpture, printmaking, acrylic on canvas and panel, assemblages, mosaics, illustration and digital art. She loves to stretch the boundaries of a medium and experiment with technique and materials. Present in much of her work is a reverence of nature and a love of texture and pattern. Often her art explores subject matter of religion, history, literature and the natural world. Her paintings are often filled with symbolism that is not immediately apparent and invites the viewer to investigate further. Many of her pieces illustrate a wry, sometimes dark sense of humour. In recent years, Marjorie has been working eggs as 3D canvases to showcase her visions. Although she uses emu, ostrich and chicken eggs, her work is on primarily Embden goose eggs. Using traditional methods of batik wax resist and dyes, along with non-traditional methods of etching she has elevated her art and has become known among collectors across Canada, United States as well as internationally. Her eggs have found their way into in collections all over the world including the Ukrainian Museum in Toronto and the Pysanka Museum in Kolomyia, Ukraine. She has been featured in several egg art publications and articles regarding her work. Marjorie received her Fine Art Diploma and Digital Media and Design Diploma at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton and her BFA at York University in Toronto. |
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