Mary Anne Molcan

Mary Anne Molcan is a Canadian visual artist who lives and practices on Vancouver Island. Her love for printmaking and artistic pursuits began at the age of seven after she won a first place award for a drawing at a local fair in Manitoba. Since then, creating art as a communicative practice has been an integral part of Mary Anne’s life and identity.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts with distinction from Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. Majoring in Visual Arts, print media became a strong focus as she developed her practice. Through this praxis, she explores the interconnections of the natural world with human perception and values.

Minoring in psychology, she was intrigued by the affiliation we have with our unconscious and how that relates to the physical world. “Hours of quiet reflection spent in the natural world inspire and inform my work” says the printmaker. Having also spent a number of years in vision care, her interest in perceptual aesthetics is an unwavering constant throughout her practice. Human connections derived on multiple levels, from social dynamics, to biological and ecological constructs are explored within this context.

Mary Anne’s output is “interested in elevating the unnoticed and invisible through concepts of impermanence, fragmentation, and traces of life left behind”. She currently employs the reductive or multi block processes of lino printing to build diverse layers of colour and textures within her works. Mary Anne often uses common and recognisable geometric shapes to act as a bridge, and to leave space for viewer introspection.

“I am attracted to the meditative qualities of hand carving in contrast with the mechanical act of printing. Together these methodologies unearth subtleties beyond what the eye can see and then focus on interrelationships between components of the planet and our place within it.”

Mary Anne has exhibited across western Canada, and her work is in both public and private collections across the country. Recent awards include The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Print Day in May Award, the Visual Arts Award of Excellence, the EJ Hughes Memorial Award in Visual Arts, the Best Printmaking Award, the Printmaking book award, Printmaking Upper Level Award, Advanced Drawing Award, and the Jackson Hirota Ceramics Service Award. Her work is also featured in the Vancouver Island University’s Library digital intellectual and creative archive.

The printmaker will soon be launching her online shop which will include limited edition fine art, and original hand carved and pulled prints. She also plans to expand this offering to apparel and art cards as her career unfolds.

www.maryannemolcan.com
@maryannestudio

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