Background

 Mary Paknezhad is a Canadian visual artist and painter. She completed a comprehensive traditional and classical training in fine arts at Espahbodi Art Institute in Iran  focused on drawing and painting from life. She received awards for her still life drawing and commissioned to paint for the dean of Chemistry department at  Azad University in Mashhad.  

She updated her techniques through multiple programs at York University in Toronto and Stratford Institute in Montreal . She is a member of Art Gala Forum and displays her works in different galleries in the city of Toronto. She, also, is active on social media and demonstrate speed painting with different mediums on her YouTube channel "mariapolis art". 

Mary Paknezhad's paintings are renditions of her dreams, wishes, love, light, calmness and positive excitement. Her thought process, feelings and the state of being in the "now" reflects what she paints. 

As she get older and wiser, in an attempt to stay away from negative thoughts, she chose to portray hope, happiness  and love. That's why she focuses on beauty, nature, innocence of animals or color field that subliminally is pleasant to the senses. 

Being flexible working in different styles of painting, she mastered working on different subjects from nature and still life to portrait or figures. 

While she mostly does long studies, her preference is to capture the essence of the subject in a short study of gesture and motion. She describes her favorite word to be "obsession", because it leads to creativity

Mary Paknezhad is versatile and switch between different techniques and mediums with ease. Somehow it says about her personality that she likes experiencing different ways of expression. 

She enjoys working with all mediums. As an artist, she uses any medium that she can put her hands on to create fine arts; such as oil , acrylics, watercolor, pastels ,  pen, ink, charcoal and so on. 

She is also fond of mixed media  for it has allowed her to break traditional artistic restrictions.