Happy Father’s Day

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI am very lucky. I am VERY LUCKY to have a dad who inspired me to design, carve, and print my very first (since 5th grade art class) Linoleum Block Print. It is called “Full-service Dad” because that is what MY DAD has been to me, for the last 43.5 years! His […]

Happy New Year, 2014!

Export to PDF | Export to DOCA blank slate. [ Oh the possibilities of a brand new year! ]  What will you do with these next twelve months?? [ Sometimes all the possibilities overwhelm me. I am trying not to worry about it. ] Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today […]

A delightful Monday

Export to PDF | Export to DOCOn Monday, I actually did what my wise husband has telling me to do for the last decade. Just paint for the sake of painting. I had been given a Birthday/Christmas-gift request anyway, so on Monday I decided to take his advice. What a delightful day I had. Just […]

Reflections on my Cinderella weekend

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThis past weekend, Tim and I participated in a juried art festival called “Art on Main” held in downtown Hendersonville, NC. My painting “Sunflower Field” was the image that was chosen to promote the show this year. It was on everything — signs,  posters, bags… all of which I […]

visual proof of my insanity

Export to PDF | Export to DOCMy freakishly creative brain will always find a way to make something a zillion times more complicated than it truly needs to be. This is what my brain says: “If you are going to take the time make something anyway, why not just make A LOT of them?” [ […]

Bid. Win. Support the Arts!

Export to PDF | Export to DOCOn Saturday, July 20th, my framed original oil painting called “Main St. Bridge” will be up for silent auction at the “Arts Alive Celebration” — a fundraiser for the newly formed Travelers Rest Artist Alliance.  To show my confidence and support of this  organization, I am donating my largest […]

Why is this painting called “Open”?

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThe painting shows several paths of water, all making their way to the ocean. It comes from different places, but it eventually all the water ends up flowing into the sea. That is how I see my life these days. I am not sure exactly what direction the path […]

A painting called “Poe’s Tavern”

Export to PDF | Export to DOCMy newest painting is now available! If you’d like to use it as your desktop calendar for this new month, just click on the image below to download it to your computer. To read the story behind this painting, click on this link to visit www.mariescottstudios.com

A painting called “Waiting”

Export to PDF | Export to DOCMy newest painting is now available! If you’d like to use it as your desktop calendar for this new month, just click on the image above to download it to your computer. To read the story behind this painting, click on this link to visit www.mariescottstudios.com

And then there were ONE…

Export to PDF | Export to DOCWhat started out as a series of FIVE sunflowers, is now a series of ONE. Yesterday I said goodbye to my old friend “Sunflower #4.” She was picked up and taken to live with her new family in Greer, SC where I think she will be very happy. So […]