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Live Panel: From COPYING to CREATING
Thursday, June 19th
5-6pm MDT
7-8pm EDT
12am-1am BST (Friday)
9am-10am AEST (Friday)
Mentors: Marjorie Mae Broadhead & Laureen Marchand
$19.00
Free For Mastrius Members.
From COPYING to CREATING
How to Move Beyond Copying Great Art to Creating Your Own!
Copying great artists is often the first step, but it shouldn't be the last for any artist. While studying master's can teach you valuable techniques, composition, and color use, it’s easy to get stuck mimicking rather than making.
If your work feels more like a collage of other people’s ideas rather than a true reflection of your own voice, it’s time to shift.
Join Mastrius Mentors Marjorie Mae Broadhead & Laureen Marchand for a live, interactive panel discussion that explores the EVOLUTION from imitation to innovation. You’ll learn how to study your artistic influences without losing yourself—and how to use that inspiration as a springboard toward developing your unique and meaningful artistic style and body of work.
Learn how to evolve from borrowed brilliance into bold originality, through:
- Understanding the role of imitation in artistic growth—and how to avoid staying stuck in the mimicry phase
- How to ethically and effectively learn from other artists without compromising your originality
- How to understand what attracts you to certain works—style, mood, palette, technique—and TRANSLATE that into your own artistic language
- Ways to deconstruct and adapt techniques so they align with your vision and artistic voice
- Confidence-building strategies to help you trust your intuition so your work stands out with clarity and convictionWays to build a visual language that communicates ideas, moods, and energy through abstraction
- Actionable steps to move from being a student of great art to becoming an originator of your own
This session will equip you with tools to refine your influences into a style that feels authentic and unique to you. You’ll walk away with a roadmap for growth that honors what you’ve learned—and where you’re going next.
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Meet Marjorie Mae-Broadhead
Acrylic
Marjorie Mae is best known for her vibrant and dramatic interpretations of the explosion of colour she encounters as she explores nature’s lush and enchanting beauty (she was mesmerised by a recent visit to Monet’s gardens).
Every painting is a journey of discovery for her; whether she is capturing the light reflecting in her garden or conveying the elegance of a bloom, her work evokes emotion and tells an engaging story. It is her love and knowledge of colour that gives her compositions their vivid quality. Workshops and online courses from artists of varied disciplines have opened her eyes to the countless ways of expressing her passion for colour and texture. As a new painting comes to life under her brushes she has been heard to comment, “This is where I feel most alive!”
She has also enjoyed instructing small groups of budding artists and has been thrilled to watch as they take courage to place paint on canvas! Her goal is to continue to develop her art as a loose and painterly expression of the world she encounters.
Marjorie Mae has been an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists since 2016 and was recently (July 2020) awarded SFCA status by the Federation “In Recognition of Extraordinary Achievement in the Field of the Visual Fine Arts.”
Meet Laureen Marchand
Oil, Acrylic, Drawing, Printmaking
“As a practising artist with a 40-year career, I understand how significant it is and how daunting it can feel when you know you’re finally ready not just to make your art, but also to take it to the world. That’s why I love offering my familiarity with all aspects of the artist’s career to others who just need some gentle guidance to make this next step a successful one.
With more than 30 solo and two-person exhibitions on my CV, as well as over 50 group shows in Canada and internationally, my experience includes career planning, developing and promoting exhibitions, sustaining artist-user relationships, maintaining good studio business practices, and artists’ rights. In addition to my work as an artist, I’ve also mentored other artists individually, given workshops in and written about all aspects of the artist’s career and studio practice, and been the owner/curator/chief bottle washer at Grasslands Gallery Online, Saskatchewan’s only fully online professional commercial art gallery, until I closed the gallery to concentrate on my own artwork and on connecting with other artists on a more personal basis.
As far as my own art career is concerned, my paintings reflect on our ideas and perception of beauty. These artworks invite us to see not just the painted object, but ourselves in it. They have been recognized by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Canada Council and are held in many public and private collections in Canada and internationally. I’ve been represented by galleries in Canada and Ireland, and like many of you, am currently developing new work towards new relationships and new exhibition experiences. I’ve been artist in residence at the Leighton Artist Studios/Banff Centre for the Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois, among others. And I’m very grateful to be the recipient of other honours, including the Canadian Artists Representation “Tony” Award for service to the visual arts in Saskatchewan and the Centennial Leadership Award for Service to the Province of Saskatchewan.
And because most artists wear many different hats in their careers, I’ve also worked as an executive director of cultural organizations, an organizer of exhibitions, a curator, a directory of artist residency programs, and almost every kind of freelance visual art person, including designing websites, teaching art and art business, and much more. I’ve been chairperson of Canadian Artists Representation Saskatchewan, as well as a board member of CARFAC National and the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency; I was a founding board member of Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective. For 20 years I researched, wrote, and produced the Saskatchewan Visual Arts Handbook; I wrote and produced a Visual Arts enhancement to The Art of Managing Your Career, published by the Cultural Human Resources Council of Canada; and I was lead writer with CARFAC Saskatchewan’s Visual Arts Sector Best Practices Development Project.
All of which means I come to the business of art and artists’ career development from many different angles, while (mostly) never losing my sense of humour.”