I go to nature to make a meditative connection with the world. While painting I live in that moment in time, where you focus only on the world outside. It’s about more than what you see – it’s the idea you have behind the eye. A painting is an expression of that place you can go to interpret your world. A wild place to go.

My husband and I, along with dogs and farm animals, live by the river in the Rio Grande gorge in northern New Mexico since the mid ‘80s. Much of my artwork is about the grand expanses of land and sky, the rivers and mountains of this Land of Enchantment, as well as rural, traditional places such as farms and backroads. Living on the banks of the Rio Grande I can see and paint the elk, the bald eagles, blue herons and ducks, the boaters and fishermen. Here there is an almost spiritual beauty found by its cultural as well as geologic history.

Artwork can be seen at the Ammann Gallery, Taos, NM and Métier Gallery in Dixon, NM and also at shows for which Marilyn is a member, including:

       – NM Watercolor Society, Signature member
       – Taos Watercolor Society, Signature Member
       – Taos Plein Aire Painters Group
       – Dixon Annual Studio Tour
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