Due to a very busy exhibition schedule this spring Marie is taking a year out from taking part in Oxfordshire Artweeks, but she looks forward to being involved next year.
In the meantime there are regular open days and special events held at Turville Studios, so do check the studios website www.turvillestudios.co.uk
And do please contact me at any time to arrange a visit to my studio at other times.
Turville is a lovely location of Vicar of Dibley fame and the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang windmill is up on the hill behind us!
Marie’s work is contemporary realism in oils rooted in traditional representational painting & underpinned by close observational drawing. She employs a representational style to evoke the qualities of her chosen subjects, without losing the physicality of oil paint on a flat surface. She is particularly known for her still lives often featuring everyday objects.
On leaving school Marie initially studied for a Chemistry degree before having her two children. Having drawn & painted all her life it was while bringing up her children that she found the flexibility to develop further artistically & gained a BA(First Class Hons) Fine Art in 2002 after studying part time as a ‘mature’ student at her local art college in Banbury, North Oxfordshire. During, and after, this time Marie also worked part-time as a picture researcher and librarian in the photographic library of a well known garden photographer
Marie’s work has been exhibited and sold nationally & internationally, in commercial galleries and at the Affordable Art Fairs. She has had work selected for The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition, The National Open Art Competition, The Society of Women Artists and The Royal Society of Marine Artists.
Her work has also been selected for the ING Discerning Eye on seven different occasions, winning the Staff Purchase Prize in 2014 and she had a painting selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023.
Marie has been based in Oxfordshire for 38 years and is a member of Oxford Art Society. She paints full time working from her studio in the lovely village of Turville near Henley, where the six studios at ‘Turville Studios’ hold regular open days.