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HAND EMBELLISHED GICLEE: DEFIANT HARMONY by Tracie Koziura

Item Number: 3682

Estimated Value: 750 USD
Opening Bid: 250 USD

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"Defiant Harmony" by Tracie Koziura

Limited Edition Hand Embellished Numbered Giclee
Edition size: 200

100% net proceeds benefit:

UNHCR

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people. In more than six decades, the agency has helped tens of millions of people restart their lives. Today, a staff of some 7,190 people in more than 120 countries continues to help some 36.4 million persons.

UNHCR has received support from many notable celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Mick Jagger.

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This superior quality Limited Edition Numbered Giclee has been hand embellished, signed and numbered by Tracie Koziura and is supplied with a corresponding registered Certificate of Authenticityalso signed and numbered by Tracie.

Size: 17" x 13" (with border) 15" x 11" (image)
Status: Unframed

Prints will be numbered in the order they are purchased with lowest numbers being issued first.

SHIPPING AND HANDLING: $29.95

Item Special Note

Why is it that most of us can love others far more than we can love ourselves?
We get hurt and upset by things other people do and say,
Giving them power over how we feel.
Letting another person's judgement cloud the way we feel about ourselves.

Life is too brief for hate and revenge.
Life is too swift for bitter thoughts or words.
Life is too great for petty things.
Life is too short to be little.

What quality of life do you want for yourself?
Do you know the way you see the world is a reflection of the way you see yourself?
That if you really want to be happy it all begins with self love and acceptance?
We can consciously choose the thoughts that fill our minds, our hearts and our lives.

Thoughts require energy and attention.
Fill each day and each hour with happy thoughts and happy memories.
The troublesome painful thoughts will wither and die of neglect.
After we let go of hurt we must make way for happiness.

The bitterness is replaced by warmth.
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does open the path to the future.
We each hold the key to our own future.

Which door will you unlock?
The door to emptiness and a hollow life?
Or the door to happiness and fulfilment?

The choice is yours to make...
(Author unknown)

About the Artist

Tracie Koziura has been exhibiting her art internationally since 2008. Her biggest passion is wolves which are the main subject of her work although she also enjoys creating a variety of other subjects including landscapes, portraits, wildlife and domestic animals. Specialising in pastels, charcoal and tinted graphite, Tracie's images are realistic, inviting the viewer to connect with the subjects character and inner spirit. Despite being a relative newcomer to the world of art her work has been described as sensitive, adventurous and alive.

"I love the freedom creating art gives me; to explore; to study; to learn about the world around me and all that exists within it. Art has opened my eyes to so many things I had taken for granted - unique subtleties I had been too busy to notice. When I paint, the world comes to a halt; the details of life come into focus. It is truly addictive, this desire to create!"

Exhibitions:
2009 Summer Art Exhibition - UK.
2009/2010 Christmas Open Exhibition - UK.

Media:
Nov 2009 - Interview with The Pastel Guild of Europe.
Nov 2009 - Art feature in SAA PAINT - "Defiant Harmony"

Contests:
Oct 2009 - Pastel Guild of Europe Juried Art Contest winner - "Winter Watch"
Apr 2011 - The Artist In YOU! Artist of The Year 2011 Award - "Silent Witness"