Born and raised in Montana, Marlene spent her younger years among the Rocky Mountains, fields and streams that made up her home.  She has always loved the gorgeous colors of which Montana is so well known. 

 

After spending four years in the US Navy, and then returning to school and becoming a Radiologic Technologist she is now retired and living in Advance, North Carolina. She opened a small home studio and teaches art. 

 

Self- taught  in Oils she always favored Land and Seascapes until recently when she branched out into graphite and portraits. 

 

Marlene has always loved  Blues and Jazz and feels it blends beautifully together with her art as it is an "auditory art" form as well. She has begun a new venture combining the two in a Musical Series.

 

She enjoys doing commission work, and welcomes inquiries for this. 

 

She participates in Juried shows at the AAWS Gallery of which she is a member in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her work has been displayed at numerous business locations throughout the city.

 

 

  

                                           Juried Shows

Marlene's work has been shown in multiple Juried Shows

AAWS Gallery
Spring for Art 2006
paintings:  "Mitchell River"
                    "Snow Squall"

AAWS GAllery
Primary Colors 2006
painting:  "Road Home"

Brock Performing Arts
Daniel Boone Days 2006
painting:  "Quiet Pastures"

Bank of the Carolinas
kudzu Show  2006
Home Grown Art Project
painting: "Morning Sunrise NC Beach"

AAWS Gallery
Printmaking and Drawing May 2007
drawings: "Somewhere in Montana"
                   "Grandmother Lucy"

AAWS Gallery
Fall for Art  2007
painting:  "Prairie Panorama"
                  "Old Oak Tree"

 

AAWS Gallery
"Critters real and imagined" 2008
painting "Hummingbird"

AAWS Gallery
Harmony  2008
painting:  "The Mystery of a Horse"