Marilyn Fenn Studio

Organics Sketch 17 Acrylic on Stonehenge 7.5″ x 7.5″ ©2010 Marilyn Fenn This is one of my recent acrylic sketches exploring the structure of those organic forms in my head that I am currently fascinated to understand: in these images of interconnected solids among voids in a space of ambiguous depth, how are the parts [...]

The day after the opening of my solo show last October, I was thrilled to stumble on a somewhat new direction while doing some sketches, a direction that it seems I’ve been searching to find for the past few years.

“Twisters” Encaustic and Wood on Panel 12″ x 12″ © 2010 Marilyn Fenn Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It’s crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? — Frank Gehry This is a very [...]

These little 5″x 7″ paintings are what I would call representational abstractions based on the stuff of life seen under a microscope. I love knowing how things are made and how they look, and often I best understand how something is made by painting it. Microphotography allows us to see the tiny things that make up the world. These paintings are not strict copies, but are based on microphotographs of stuff like soap film, chemicals, silica and other crystals and crystalline structures.

Confetti Encaustic on Panel 10″ x 10″ © 2009 Marilyn Fenn This one is very highly textured, and looks really amazing in person. As promised, here are 6 of my new encaustic paintings — 5 of these were begun at last weekend’s encaustic workshop at Majestic Ranch.  I completed them and created one new painting [...]

“My Alien Friend” Oil on Canvas 6″x6″ © 2008 Marilyn Fenn “Planet’s Edge” Acrylic on Canvas Paper, mounted on Masonite 6″x6″ © 2008 Marilyn Fenn

“Painting on the Train…in Vain” acrylic on canvas paper, mounted on masonite 6″ x 6″ © 2008 Marilyn Fenn We took the train to LA and back last week, and I brought some small art supplies, and tried doing a few tiny paintings on the train. Nothing much great happened, painting-wise.  Ostensibly, one could say [...]

“Soaring” Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ © 2008 Marilyn Fenn This has been a very busy month — the month began with transporting our paintings up to Fort Worth to prepare for hanging in the “Real and Imagined” show at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, which took two trucks to transport all the [...]

“Asia” Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ © 2008 Marilyn Fenn Now that I’ve finished my 7-month Succession Series project, I felt the need to paint fast and large, and with more control and precision than I can achieve using encaustics, so I thought I’d give acrylics another go. I headed out to Jerry’s Artarama [...]

“Succession Series #42” Oil on 20 Canvases 48″ x 60″ © 2008 Marilyn Fenn I finally finished my 7-month Succession Series project of 20 interrelated paintings, painted individually, but with connecting edges and related ideas. I painted these in oil, after spending the past 2 years painting primarily in encaustic. It felt like coming home [...]