Marsha Strycharz
Marsha Strycharz
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"Apples & Pears #2" 15x30 Oil
"Foil" 24x24 Oil
"Three Pears In Glass Vase" 24x24 Oil
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"Glass Bowl & Tablecloth" 24x36 Oil
"Pitcher & Pears On Blue Cloth" 16x20 Oil
"Three Apples With Blue & White Cloth" 24x30 Oil
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Marsha Strycharz
Originally from Montreal, Marsha now makes her home in Oakville, Ontario. She holds a B.Sc, in Mathematics, an MBA and has held the Project Management Professional Certification. In her prior life, she provided consulting and project management services to the financial and technology industries.
After retiring from a corporate and consulting career, she did an about face and began pursuing her interest in art and painting. She enrolled in drawing and painting courses, and completed the Fine Arts Certificate Programme at Sheridan College. Since then, she has been painting primarily still life, in oil, from her home studio. She has been participating in group and solo shows, competitions and charity auctions in and around the golden horseshoe for the last 10 years. Her paintings are held in private collections in Canada, U.S.A., Europe and Asia.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a contemporary still life artist and I paint in a classical realist style, using traditional oil. My paintings have been described as minimalist and modern. They often consist of a few objects of intense colour placed against a neutral background. Although my paintings are composed of everyday objects, the subject of my paintings is light. I incorporate different materials and textures (such as cloth, paper, glass, fruit) as subject matter, and play with the source or angle of the light to create dramatic shadows and interesting reflections. Ultimately, my goal is to achieve a result that is visually pleasing, emotionally calming and easy to live with.
Originally from Montreal, Marsha now makes her home in Oakville, Ontario. She holds a B.Sc, in Mathematics, an MBA and has held the Project Management Professional Certification. In her prior life, she provided consulting and project management services to the financial and technology industries.
After retiring from a corporate and consulting career, she did an about face and began pursuing her interest in art and painting. She enrolled in drawing and painting courses, and completed the Fine Arts Certificate Programme at Sheridan College. Since then, she has been painting primarily still life, in oil, from her home studio. She has been participating in group and solo shows, competitions and charity auctions in and around the golden horseshoe for the last 10 years. Her paintings are held in private collections in Canada, U.S.A., Europe and Asia.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a contemporary still life artist and I paint in a classical realist style, using traditional oil. My paintings have been described as minimalist and modern. They often consist of a few objects of intense colour placed against a neutral background. Although my paintings are composed of everyday objects, the subject of my paintings is light. I incorporate different materials and textures (such as cloth, paper, glass, fruit) as subject matter, and play with the source or angle of the light to create dramatic shadows and interesting reflections. Ultimately, my goal is to achieve a result that is visually pleasing, emotionally calming and easy to live with.