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New Work: Girl with Cherry Blossoms


Girl with Cherry Blossoms
Acrylic, mixed media on canvas

10 x 13 cm
Marlene Yuzak
This piece was created while I was teaching an art class. We were working on layering, and using found images — in this case the Japanese girl, and the red heart. The heart is actually a piece of a prayer string blessed by the 14th Dalai Lama, which was given to me by my friend, Linda.

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Collected Work: Ascend, 2002


Ascend
acrylic, mixed media on canvas
150×300 cm
Marlene Yuzak
2002

Lately, being busy with starting a new business, I have been on one of my longest-ever breaks from making art. Maybe I will just quit painting forever. HA HA HA! As if!!!!


This time, I am showing you a painting of mine from a few years ago. It belongs to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. They recently moved it from the children’s ward of the main hospital to the brand new Irene and Leslie Dubé Centre for Mental Health. That is the new, sloped-roof building you can see on the riverbank as you come up the University Bridge.

I am glad to have the piece in wonderful spot across from the lounge in the adolescent in-patient wing where kids will see it. Peace.


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New Work: Love Blossoms

Love Blossoms
acrylic, paper collage on canvas
50×80 cm
Marlene Yuzak
2009

This work was done while my friend Egan was working on my basement. He would arrive early and I would begin painting. This painting had many layers applied to it. It started off as a abstract, then a patterned rug. One morning as Egan arrived, a pink glow was coming in the window. Egan and I had a discussion about gold, and after that the painting came together. Often my work has alot of history before the final painting comes through.

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New Work: Angel with Flowers

Angel with Flowers
acrylic, paper collage on canvas
50×80 cm
Marlene Yuzak
2009
I spend a lot of time ripping paper. No real project in mind. I love the feel of the different types of artisan paper. I sort them into piles according to color, piles of related shapes. Some I call “scraps,” but these often end up in the work anyway. Then I play with the piles and think about how the pieces might be used like brush strokes on a canvas I am working on. I have to think about it awhile.
Often after a lovely walk the pieces will magically start arranging themselves on the canvas.
Come up to my studio for a closer look.
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New Work: Waiting Buddha

Waiting Buddha
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 100 cm
Marlene Yuzak

I paint a lot of Buddhas, and I did this one as a commission for my friend Jan, who teaches yoga. But while I was doing it she decided she liked another painting I did of an angel, so she bought that one instead. Angels and Buddhas — you can’t go wrong either way. If you want to come up to my studio and see this painting, you can! Have a good day.