Mara Lane is a visual artist and educator who primarily employs drawing, printmaking and oil painting in her artistic practice.
Mara’s recent work engages issues endemic to identity and belonging; it focuses on the relationship of the individual with their surroundings, and the way that the environment manifests to each of us as an aspect of the other.
What does it mean to be observer or participant? What constitutes connection? What strikes us deeply and becomes woven into our narrative?
Involved with the process of communication between the subconscious and the conscious mind, Mara’s work expresses dreamlike symbolism and explores the shifting, liminal spaces that occur between sleeping and waking.
After spending her early life in Tenerife and England, Mara spent her adolescent
years in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, a small mountain town where raw nature
is very present in the surroundings. Her work is predominantly figurative, and by having
spent time in nature absorbing its beauty, she imbues her artwork with the gentle
naturalistic quality emanated from experience.
She has exhibited both in group and solo exhibitions in galleries and studio spaces in British Columbia and Quebec, such as the Point-St-Charles Art School and Concordia University’s VAV Gallery. Mara has been featured in several publications, the most recent being in F Word online zine in 2017.
Mara has taught and facilitated art classes for a variety of different populations including running children’s Summer Art Camps for the six years in Nelson, BC, and has taught art classes out of her studio and facilitated space for seniors at St. Margaret’s Day Center in Montréal. She also has taught adult oil painting classes at The Griffintown Art School in Montréal, she has worked with young adults at Vanier College in Montréal and has worked with grade school children in both BC and Quebec. Mara completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Community Art Education, at Concordia University, in 2019.
Mara currently teaches at a Steiner Waldorf school in the south of England.
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