Marisa Mary Myrah

Medium: Oils and Watercolour

Location: Studio 470 1000 parker st Vancouver

Instagram: www.instagram.com/marisamarymyrah/

Cell: 604-376-3592

Bio

Marisa Mary Myrah was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and studied Fine Arts at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, graduating in 1990.

She completed a Post-Baccalaureate in Painting at the Cyprus College of Art in Paphos, Cyprus in 1994. She has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in

Canada and abroad, most recently showing at The Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, The Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, and the 1st Biennial Exhibition

at The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland. Marisa was an Artist-in-Residence at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, USA in 2000 and at the

Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain in 2002. She currently resides in North Vancouver B.C. with her family.

Artist Statement
My perpetual exploration of nature has been a constant in my work. Considering myself a contemporary natural image painter, I strive to express a romantic feel for the history of painting

through my keen observation of nature and elegiac imagery. Through new evaluations of landscape painting I am investigating the changing and threatened environment around us.

Nature is carefully observed but not always directly depicted and it always retains a kind of visual instability, thriving on the permeable border between representation and abstraction.