During my career as a practising artist I have successfully enjoyed many disciplines of making art. As a Mastrius Master Mentor I will guide and inspire you to succeed in expressing and fulfilling yourself artistically with confidence in the world of art. I wish to to enhance peoples talent and hone their skills and explore imagery.
The aim will be to bring out the true essence of each individual gained through group discussion and individual attention. Sessions will be structured through media, techniques, composition, colour, imagery with references from art history. The importance of observation and drawing and how to interpret your personal inspiration and goals are most important.
It will be a privilege to provide a platform to allow your unique talent to flourish in the world of art in which direction you wish to follow.
Maz’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Generalist
Technical:
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Color & Composition
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Technique Demos
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Providing Art Critiques
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Supplies and tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
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Teaching How To Self Critique
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Studio Setup For Art Production
Marketing:
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Artist Statement & CV
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Shows & Exhibits
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Marketing & Branding
Business:
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Approaching Galleries
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Pricing Artwork
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Running Your Art Business the Day-to-Day
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Studio Time Management
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun. It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.” ~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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Emerging
Mentorship Membership
$ USD87/Month
Next session: June 12, 2024
On the 2nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM MDT Wed
Maz Jackson SGFA STP has spent a lifetime drawing and painting in rural Norfolk UK. The landscape, history and its people enrich her imagery which can be interpreted in many ways to relate to many cultures across the globe. Winner of national and international awards, her work continues to be exhibited and collected by galleries, museums and private collections across the UK, Europe, Japan, China, USA and Mexico. Her work has been exhibited at Florence, Palermo and Venice Biennale (New York Arts Pavilion) where she represented the UK. She has also exhibited at the Grand Palais Paris (Salon des Independants), Prince Ranier’s Auditorium Monaco, The Royal Academy, Mall Galleries, Bankside Gallery London and many more. She has also worked as an adviser/practitioner with the BBC and gives courses and summer schools at the Edward James Foundation West Dean and at Great Missenden School of Creative Arts.
Maz creates her work using fifteenth century techniques as written at that time in ‘Il Libro dell Arte’ by Cennino Anrea Cennini. These tried and tested methods are said to have less restoration than many types of paint medium though history. Maz’s unique imagery is worked up in egg tempera comprised of mineral pigments, such as lapis lazuli, mixed with egg yolk and distilled water. The tempera is laid down on gessoed, linen wrapped oak panels between gilded shapes of 23.03 carat gold leaf. Much time passes between each process, many drawings of thoughts and ideas form stimuli for the paintings some also become series of prints, scrolls, artists books and sculptures.
In recent years she has also been investigating historic gum tempera methods for miniature painting of many cultures, both on paper and gesso panels. Still using pure mineral pigments, she has settled on recipes of different mediums including Gum Arabic, various oils such as poppy seed and lavender, Damar varnish and sometimes egg yolk too. In the past, these materials and others, some recipes remaining secret, examples can be seen in Hilliard’s work, Persian and Medieval manuscripts, Aztec codices and in many beautiful contemporary works.
‘Ideas are sourced from anything that excites, people, love, communication, touch, tension, laughter, flight, the spaces between and things sacred.’
‘I have a deep interest in colour, line, mark-making and edge, which all come into play when working in paint, drawing and print. 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.’
Professor Giampoala of Florence ‘Maz Jackson is an imaginative and allegorical post-modern medievalist’. A quote from his paper based on her solo show at Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence.
Jef Bourgeau Director of the Museum of New Art Detroit ‘Opening the crate containing Maz’s art was like opening a casket revealing a precious jewel’.
Pasquale Celona President of the Florence Biennale on seeing her work when visiting Le Salon Des Independants, Grand Palais Paris ’Maz Jackson’s work is so beautiful, it is like the Tree of Life’. (Maz is a Florence Biennale Artist representing the UK).
