The Lenox Library is pleased to partner with the Guild of Berkshire Artists to present a seminar with artist Marion Grant on “100 Years of Mixed Media & Collage” on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 3:00 p.m.
Join artist and art historian, Marion Grant, for an informative slide show and discussion that looks at both historic and contemporary artists whose works embody the creative energy of Mixed Media.
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Meeting ID: 881 8401 6139
Passcode: 844755
About the artist:
For western Massachusetts artist Marion Grant, painting is a release from the everyday. She says, “When I enter my studio, I feel as if I have come home. Painting is an act of pure meditation – a sustained study of subject, paint, and canvas. It is a release from the concerns of the past and the future – it is essentially about the moment.”
Grant is best known for her landscape and still life paintings. She is drawn to these time-honored subjects and traditional oil techniques, while seeking a balance between craft, representation, effect, and composition.
About her methods, she says, “I layer the oil paint, thick and thin, in an unplanned process of addition until the sum is achieved. I hope that a viewer will glimpse one of my works from across a room and want to approach it. I think that a good painting is like a lure, drawing the viewer in ever closer, so close that the paint itself becomes the object of contemplation.
Her still life paintings depict the bits and pieces of everyday life painted in thick layers of brilliant hues and explore the interplay of foreground and background. The landscapes are drawn from the Berkshire region’s rich wild and cultivated views – what Grant calls, “A feast for the eyes…changing weather, shifting light and shadows, timeworn hills, stony fields…a kaleidoscopic collision of geography and meteorology.”
Grant has studied and taught fine arts and holds a masters degree in Art History from UMASS Amherst. She was also a museum educator and curator for many years. Currently, she teaches English literature and writing and paints in her studio at NU Arts at 311 North Street in Pittsfield, MA. Her work has been featured in solo and group shows in the northeast region, and is in numerous private collections.