Mixed Media Artist

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Floating

Floating-Corset

10″x10″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are  turquoise and are 1.5″ deep.

This painting is available HERE


Fire Red Corset #2

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24″x36″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ and are painted red.

This painting is available HERE


Squeeze Me, Valentine

Squeeze-me

5.5″x4″ mixed media painting on rag paper. The painting has a .25″ border and will need to be framed and matted by you.

This painting is SOLD

contact me directly maria@mariapacewynters.com


Blue Poppy

Blue-Poppy

5″x7″ mixed media painting on rag paper. The painting has a .25″ border and will need to be framed and matted by you.

This painting is available HERE or contact me directly maria@mariapacewynters.com


Lost In Your Dreams ( A Work In Progress)

This is a 18″x14″  mixed media painting in wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.

This painting is SOLD

This painting is not a work in progress. It is complete. Our subject, however,  just may be a work in progress, just as we all are. Living our lives on a day-to-day to basis. Doing the best we can.

I had a lot of things going around my head as I painted this one.  I was thinking about how when we are young, we sometimes give up our authentic selves  in order to be accepted in a group, or perhaps by a love interest. Sometimes we try so hard to become  what we feel we need to be,  we totally lose sight of who we really are. We try to blend in, to fit, to please, not realizing that, being untrue to who we really are will never lead to happiness.

As a mother of two young girls, intellectually,  I realize that helping my children to have self-confidence and self-respect is crucial.  Emotionally, however, I find it difficult when they question everything that I tell them  and make choices that I would  not make.  If I don’t let them make their own choices about these small things at this young age, how are they going to have the skills to make good descion when the stake are higher?  If I expect them to bend to my way, all of the time, why would I expect that they wouldn’t   bend to other people as well?

It is like walking a tightrope, trying to raise children that are considerate and respectful but also have their own ideas and purpose.

These are the titles that I wrote down as I painted this one:

Falling Into You

Becoming You

Becoming Me

I Become You

You Become Me

Blending In

Falling Into Me

Lost In Your Dreams

Lost In You

Don’t Forget You


To Catch A Glimpse

This is a 12″x16 ” mixed media painting on a wood stretcher. The sides are 1.5″ and are red. This painting is $280 + shipping and is available HERE

There is something about this poise that I love. I have painted it before and called it Waiting.

He is watching her. She pretends not to notice but holds her breath in anticipation as she attempts to look back over her raised shoulder to catch a glimpse of him watching her.


You Are The One

This is 3″x5″mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are painted red and are 1.5″ deep. This painting is $50 and is available HERE.


Little Crow, Little Crow

Little Crow, little cow …

Crows are so protective of their babies. Maybe that is another reason why I like them. They really make a racket if you try to go near their nest, even if you are simply walking beneath it. Unaware that it is high above you in the tree top.

Once, my dad, a bit of a wise guy (being from Liverpool it is hard for him not to always have some comeback or ‘witty’ remark), was walking outside our house in Victoria when a murder of crows started yelling at him, the way that they do, and he of course told them (I am sure ever so politely) to “SHUT UP”.

Well that was it for him. After that little outburst, they dive bombed him, knocked his hat off and crowed at him whenever he emerged from the house.

Crows do not like to be mocked or told to be quiet. They demand respect. Personally, I give it to them 100%. After all, there are not many of us in this world that can say they got the better of my dad. Ha, ha.

Little Crow


Yellow Legs

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This is a 7″x10″ mixed media painting on paper.
$35 US + $4 shipping
To purchase contact me
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There is something, for me, about yellow socks/stockings. They are hard to pull off without looking like big bird but, I had a pair when I was 16 and I used to wear them with my Mum’s Honeymoon suit that she got in Liverpool in the sixties before my parents emigrated to Canada. Truly a dream for a girl in the eighties hanging out with ‘The Mods’. I don’t think that I looked like a bird, unless, of course, you are thinking about the English slang for ‘girl’.


Lady With Hat

This is a 7″x10″mixed media painting on paper.Lady-with-Hat

Up in the loft again today. I have a head cold so I thought I would just have some fun. No pressure, no commissions, just me up here painting. Nice.


A Commission And Then Off Again!

Portrait for Randallsm

This is a new portrait I just finished. It is mixed media, 11.5″x15.5″ on rag paper.
I have been so crazy busy, unpacking only to repack again. We were in Grande Prairie for my art show ‘Moving Life’ ( I sold 11 paintings!) and now I am trying to get ready to go to Victoria. Poor Imogen is missing a lot of kindergarten but she had a wonderful time in GP and always loves her trips to Victoria so…..it is worth it to me. I guess that this will have to change next year, we can’t be missing too much of grade one.
Anyway, this portrait is what I have been up to painting wise. I am also working on another doggy portrait. (Another cutie … but you’ll just have to wait to see that one.)


Cat Dancing

cat-dancingsmThis is a new 8.5″x11′ mixed media painting on rag paper.

I once had a book on cats that paint.  It was pretty hilarious.  So, if cats paint, surely it is not that much of a stretch to think that they could dance as well.  If Beijing did dance,  Imogen would definitely be his partner.


Heidi Hair and Polka Dots- SOLD

16″x20″ mixed media painting on canvas.heidi-hair-and-polka-dots

When I was a little girl my favorite hairstyle was ‘Heidi hair’.  I remember a book I had by Judy Blume (I think?) with a girl on the front, who had dark hair (like me) donned in a  ‘Heidi doo’ with a big red gladiola on the side.  I loved this paining, I think because I thought it looked like me. I remember I loved the book too but I just can’t remember the title … ???***  Boy haven’t thought about that in awhile.

Well here I go again, living vicarioulsy through my kids.  I love putting Imogen’s hair up this way.  She thinks she looks like a princess but  hates all the pins it requires.  It does takes a lot of pins!  Boy does that kid have thick hair!

**** It was “Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself”


I Will Protect You …. Finished

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Sisters

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In The Moment

in-the-momentHere is a new 8″x10″ mixed media canvas that I did today.

Capturing a moment. Mid giggle.

Usually I gravitate toward the static , moody pose but occasionally I like to challenge myself with this type of image.  Not unlike ‘Joy’.

SOLD


Drifting In And Out

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I finished this painting today.

The  title refers to the way our memories fade in and out.  Some memories are so clear while others are foggy and transparent.  The memories that are clear are not always the most important, often we wonder why we have held on to that memory at all.   How can we remember things so vividly from long ago but barely remember things that happened to us last week?

The memory can be selective and often distorted.  What is really true, what is fabricated, what is embellished?   I often wonder these things.  And I often worry what memories I am creating for my children.  What are they going to remember?  Mommy keeping the house clean?  Our walks to the library?  Ballet class?  Our endless photo sessions?  Watching too many Barbie movies?   My limited patience?  My reclusive tendencies?  How will my choices effect them in their adult lives?  Did  I give them a feeling of entitlement?* And on and on.  It  sure can be exhausting.

I remember somewhere I heard/read of a woman ( I think it was some film star) saying she had absolutely no memory of her childhood.  It was like she didn’t exist before a certain time.  I wish I could remember if I had read it or heard it on TV but there you go, my memory fails me.  I found that idea fascinating though.   No memories of being a child.  That would be so odd.   I wonder if she ever had children of her own. What kind of Mother was she?   How would she relate to their childhood?   Surely the memories of our own childhood shape the way we raise our children.  For good or for bad.  Isn’t that why we hold on to traditions?  To try to relive our childhood through our children’s experience of the same things we did when we were children.

I’ll stop now, I could go on and on.

*I am currently reading ‘Outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell

This painting is available on etsy


IF ‘Breezy’ – Girl With Red Balloon

girl-with-red-balloonEvery time  she held a balloon she couldn’t help worrying that it  just might blow away.

I did this 8″x10″ painting this morning.  She looks to the future, I see the past.  Somehow we both have to try to enjoy our moments together right now without letting these thoughts get in the way.  Somehow, as a Mother, I need to teach her these skills so that she can be content and happy with what she has right now.

Available on etsy.


ACEO Easter Bonnet #2

aceo-easter-bonnet2This is a new 2.5″x3.5″ mixed media painting I did today.

This piece is available on etsy.


ACEO Easter Bonnet

aceo-easter-bonnet-1This a new painting I did today.  It is a 2.5″x3.5″ mixed media painting on 100% archival rag paper.

SOLD


Marlene Dietrich

marlene-dietrichHere she is.  What can I say ?  She was so amazing!  Look at those lids!

This painting is available.

SOLD


Audrey Bride

audrey-brideThis is an original mixed media painting of Audrey Hepburn wearing a bridal veil.   Who wouldn’t want to look like Audrey on their wedding day?

She is my all time favorite,  I’ve always loved her.

This painting is is 3.25″x5″ on 100%rag paper

SOLD


IF ‘flawed’- Sad Song

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Her song was only flawed by its sadness.


Garbo Deco Harlequin

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This is an original 16″x16″ mixed media painting on wood of Greta Garbo in the classic  silent movie ‘Torrent’.  I love painting from black and whites stills!  The sky is the limit (colour wise).

SOLD