Marcie RohrNew Westminster, British ColumbiaContemporary Painter Marcie Rohr is a prolific abstract painter from Canada. She graduated with honours from Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s Visual Arts Program in 2021. She was a recipient of an Emily Carr University Achievement Scholarship in 2018. She has participated in several juried collective exhibitions through the Works Art and Design Festival, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Royal Bison Art and Craft Fair, Market Collective, as well as solo exhibitions at Harcourt House, Milner Gallery, Bleeding Heart Art Space, and others. She is represented by Aesthete Fine Arts Gallery in Prince George, BC. Her works have been collected by clients from Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, New York, and Hong Kong. Below is her artist’s statement. “My art practice is a visual journal in progress. Each work refers to my lived experience; exploring what it means to be conscious in a material body. It’s not about making a fixed statement. As I paint in an intuitive way, I do so with an attitude of curiosity and receptivity toward what is stirring below the surface of sensory perception.Creative impulses inside me grow wildly - branching out in all directions. My art practice is rooted in the habit of cultivating ideas, and my attempt to make sense of them. The painting process becomes a tangible manifestation of this interior process, of adding and subtracting, one step forward, two back. Every painting is a conversation, idea, argument, or lament in progress. Nothing is fixed, everything is turning and folding in on itself, bobbing above and below the surface of consciousness, sometimes sinking, sometimes rising above.” – Marcie Rohr