Bayfield Marina Giclees.

Offered as a paper edition of 195 or a canvas edition of 50.

Marzena Kotapska is an artist based in Toronto. She painted the original paintings in 2008. These images beutifully depict the feeling of the Bayfield Harobour. They represent some of the best paintings of the harbour we have seen and so we dicided to make these images available to our clients as giclees. This is Marten Arts Gallery's first publishng of giclees.

A little from the astist:

I believe in traditional skills: drawing, composition, the use of colours. Techniques are vital, like knowing the language. My work combines vibrant colour and detail in the creation of cityscapes and landscapes, my favourite themes. It has primarily been based on observation.
I paint year round, in and around the Toronto area. I love hustle and bustle of busy city. I love buildings, city markets, churches and nature.

In composing a piece, I think of the subject as the setting for a drama of light and shadow play. I’m drawn to scenes that have strong light/dark elements or that have intricate patterns. I am especially fascinated by how illumination lends an aura of significance to objects, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. I want to freeze those moments when we catch a glimpse of something breathtaking and preserve that feeling on canvas.

My work has primarily been based on observation and photo-imagery. I carry my camera with me constantly, and I take lots of pictures. I try to record with my camera; objects, situations that draw my attention or that I find aesthetically captivating and of significance to me. Later on, I will process and store them in my computer. Afterwards, during the viewing and processing, I will choose the ones that are of interest to me, and that in some way ‘speak to me’. Those will become the basis for my paintings. I sometimes manipulate my photos, in order to convey a certain feeling or emotion, or for purely aesthetic reason.

Art has allowed me the opportunity to express and share my personal vision of the world that, to me, is both aesthetically beautiful and personally meaningful. I truly enjoy the process of creating. My brush strokes are broad and energetic. I enjoy the materiality of paint and the surfaces of my paintings are rich and textural. I’m fascinated by the sheer ability of putting paint on the surface of the canvas. To me painting has a life; a life of its own. Each painting has a personality, character, it talks, it breathes, narrates a story.  I truly enjoy being part of this creation.

Painting is poetry on canvas. For me it is about the spirit of a place or an object, about the way I felt. I paint simply because I can't imagine not painting.

Marzena

 

Definition

Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is an invented name (i.e. a neologism) for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray"[1]. It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne[2], a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.