Marisa Myrah

As an artist, nature is my refuge and when painting I’m relaying the experience of being in that landscape. Creating a sense of sublime or awe is what we expect historically from the landscape, however there is a desire to move the conversation forward to do something different and challenge what we expect of it. I am interested in a space that is about to fall apart, in varying states of agitation. The overgrown patches of land that are easily overlooked and the idea that the shadows and undergrowth may harbour a hidden menace or other secrets, provide an alternate experience of the landscape than the conventional picturesque viewpoint.

Marisa Mary Myrah was born in Regina, Sask., and studied Fine Arts at Langara college and Emily Carr College, 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. She 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 lives in North Vancouver with her husband and their two kids and two dogs.