Mary Mikawoz Biography

MARY MIKAWOZ

Winnipeg-born Mary Mikawoz has loved architecture, painting, and illustrating her own stories since kindergarten. Her father was an artist-photographer; a high-school teacher influenced her to experiment with abstraction. Mary has moved around Canada a lot, taking a Political Science degree, later qualifying as a new media specialist and earning a teaching degree. She has had jobs as social worker, federal civil servant, staff development officer, and teacher. Mary has put this varied experience to good use running her own company, Majestic Productions, which offers graphic design, photography and photo restoration, and website design. Mary says she’s friendly and personable. “I like beauty and powerful art. Art is everything to me,” she adds.

Currently, Mary produces abstract art in coloured India ink with nib pens, or in acrylic on canvas. Colourful swirling curves and sharp angles predominate, implying time, movement, and change. She allows her favourite music to influence her as she works. She also does photography, especially telephoto images of nature and wildlife subjects, many of which she has patiently stalked near her cottage close to Little Deer on Lake Winnipeg. Uniquely, she digitally combines her several genres, deepening the meaning and mood of her photos by incorporating abstract drawings into the composition. “In these pieces, the photo shows a static moment in time,” Mary explains, “while the addition of the abstract drawing reflects another, more dynamic and enigmatic aspect of the same subject.”

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Twin Souls

Twin Souls

This was one of the lost frame on a film camera. I took the shot through glass and it worked. I then manipulated the image so that there are two tigers in the same picture. It is the same tiger but looks like a mother-child image. It is for me, twin souls. I hope you like it.

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Vancouver Harbour

Vancouver Harbour

This is the Vancouver Harbour in British Columbia. It is near Stanley Park.

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Cherry Blossom

Japanese Cherry Blossom Tree

This is a Japanese Cherry Blossom Tree found at the Kurimoto Japanese Gardens in Edmonton, Alberta  part of University of Alberta.  I like the way the branches hover over the water.

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Turtle Amongst Fish

This turtle is happily swimming amongst the fishes. I like the appearance of a sparkle of light off of its mouth.

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Ladybugs En Masse

Ladybugs En Masse

This a mass collection of ladybugs. I think this is shortly after they have hatched and passed the larvae stage.

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Hill Climbing Games

Hill Climbing Games

I see these ladybugs playing a hill climbing game. There were so many of them. I find them interesting.

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King of the Castle

King of the Castle

Here is a photograph of ladybugs on a stone and a stick. I call it “King of the Castle” because it is as if they are playing this kid’s game. This was out at St. Ambroise, Manitoba.

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Ladybug Highway

Ladybug Highway

This is a combined image of my photography and an abstract Ladybug drawing I had done. The abstract drawing is made with Indian Ink and nib pens.

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Golden Eagle in Flight

Golden Eagle in Flight

This is a photograph I took of a Golden Eagle in flight overhead. It was hard to be steady enough to take the photograph.

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