Artist Biography:
Maz has spent a lifetime living and painting in Norfolk, UK. Her work has a surreal, spiritual quality and is exhibited and collected worldwide, exhibiting in galleries and museums in the UK, Europe, USA, Mexico, China and Japan. From June to November 2009, work is exhibited in the New York Arts Pavillion at the Venice Biennale and then to their Beijing gallery where her work will be part of their permanent collection. In December 2008 she was presented with an International Award, the Premio Ercole D’Este, at the Estense Museum in Ferrara, Italy. Public collections Detroit Museum of Modern Art, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Arts Trust, and Church of England Arts Trust. She has been invited to represent the UK at the Florence Biennale in 2003, 2005, 2007 and again for 2009. She is Chair of the British and European Tempera Society, a prize winning member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art and Trevisan International Art. In 2004 Maz worked as an adviser/practitioner with the BBC appearing with Rolf Harris recreating Botticelli’s Venus. She is also involved with an international group of artists in the Passion for Life movement, founded by Antoine Gaber, in the fight against cancer.
“Drawings interpret ideas into images and working on paper can be a spontaneous reaction of marks or considered areas of line and colour and texture. Drawing, for me, is like breathing and a necessary part of my existence to convey thoughts and messages with meaning, both obvious and hidden. All drawings act as thinking machines for paintings, some left as sketches, others worked up into finished pieces in pastel, water colour or print.
Recently I have been working on a series of woodcuts to complement my egg tempera pieces. Pushing cutting tools into the surface of wooden panels feels like drawing and those images can be worked into and enhanced when rolling out the ink prior to printing and pulling each print from the press. The hand of the artist being evident, each print has unique subtleties, yet is part of a small limited edition.”
“I have a deep interest in traditions of practice, in colour, line, mark-making and edge.” Imagery springs from anything that excites: communication, touch, tension, flight, landscape, the spaces between and things sacred. I wish my work to have a timeless quality which the on-looker can dip into and be instilled with ever-changing thoughts, questions and smiles.”
Imagery is depicted with egg tempera on gilded oak panels following 15th century methods of Cennino d’ Andrea Cennini.
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