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MY ART IS ABOUT THE JOURNEY; THE PROCESS FIRST, THE PRODUCT OF
LITTLE CONSEQUENCE EXCEPT AS IT ENRICHES LIFE.
I CHOOSE MY OWN PATH,
MY OWN DESTINATION. ART IS NOT MY LIFE, BUT, ALL MY LIFE ENDEAVORS TO BE ART.
A formal education in the Arts with a BA from UCONN and post graduate studies in Fine Arts at USC and Old Dominion. After which she studied abroad with artists in Japan and North Africa. In the sixties she designed knitwear and needlework kits for Knit Wit of Southern California and has taught extensively in the Southeast and on the Gulf Coast. Marilyn has had OJT with the best and brightest at Creative Arts Workshop, Farmington Valley Art Center, Brookfield Craft Center, and Guilford Handcrafts Center all in Connecticut. Her award winning work has been exhibited in such diverse venues as the Cheeseborough Ponds Gallery in Connecticut, the Williamsburg Gallery in Virginia, On the Hill in Yorktown, Studio 21, twentieth Century Gallery and P. Kanes in Iwakuni, Japan.
Art has been the one constant in a life spent mostly on the road, with twenty eight moves involving homes in seven states, on three islands, in four countries and on three continents. In my work I attempt to convey not what I see but how I visualize; the how is defined by the sum of my experience, memory, and imagination, and tempered by a collaboration with, and respect for, the idiosyncrasies of my medium of choice. In my three dimensional work I seek to marry strong , contemporary forms with complex surfaces; the forms are a combination of wheel thrown, hand built, altered and assembled parts. My cone eight clays and glazes are customized to produce surfaces evocative of clays ancient origins. All work is raw glazed and single fired to permit an interaction between clay and glaze not possible in the more conventional method involving separate bisque and glaze firings. I have spent four years working out of my home based Leesburg, Florida studio where I have strived to perfect my unique approach to ceramic art.