Mara G. Szyp

Mara Szyp - Biography
Mara Szyp is an emerging Argentinean-Canadian artist. She travelled around Argentina, through the USA where she lived in Los Angeles, later to Spain, Barcelona and then in 2005 she made her home in beautiful Vancouver Island, BC. She specializes in West Coast Landscapes and Contemporary Abstracts.
Mara is a double cancer survivor who loves working with oils and acrylics. In 2017 after her third cancer, she was given another chance to live, and she decided to dedicate herself wholeheartedly to her passion for arts full time.
Surrounded by the incredible beaches and foggy forests, her unique perspective on her
work tends to tilt towards romanticized reality, dreamlike images of real places that
invite you to travel without even moving. She approaches her works with the intention to elate each viewer to feel the sand and rocks under their feet, smell the salty ocean breeze, and hear the birds above, as the tips of trees dance in the wind and the water splashes the shores.
She puts all of herself in each art piece she births. She is a very intuitive artist, and her senses are always open to perceive the world around her and that’s something you can feel through her art.
Curriculum: Current exhibit at Holiday Inn Colwood till Jan 2023, Juan De Fuca Rec Centre until March 2023, Victoria Arts Council “Little Gems” 2022, Nov 2022 at ArtSea Gallery in Sidney, Sooke Fine Art Show 2021/2022 and TD Moss Paint In 2021 online and 2022 on Moss Street. She also has active status in the FCA where she participated in their show Spotlight 2022. She won Honorable mention by Gallery Ring for her piece “Chestnut ’in November 2022, Camelback Gallery Bronze Award 2021 for “Kananaskis”, Gallery Ring Honorable mention “Jade & Gold” Abstract 2021, Honorable mention “Broken” Abstract 2021. One of her abstracts “The Obelisk” has been published in The Prequel issue # 7 and “Reflections” one of her seascapes was published in Until - The Prequel by Victoria Arts Council. Published in Here! Magazine (interview), Art Habens (interview), October Hill Magazine NY(4 times) Voice of Eve Magazine, Feature Artist Personaland, The Heroine’s Journey (interview), United Colours of Design “Orange” and “Coral” issues, Participated in Crossroads of Life: My story behind the work by Gallery Gallea & the National Victims and Survivors week (Restorative Justice Canada) & Guest Artist of the 2nd Annual Community Connections Fair at William Head invited by Dr. Lisa Gunderson. She has participated in over 65 shows and exhibitions.
She has illustrated 4 books. The most recent one is “Joy of Being” by author Kristin Larsen.