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 [...]

Tornado with Debris Cloud, version 2 Encaustic on Baltic Birch 10″ x 10″ x 2″ © 2010 Marilyn Fenn I have completed two new tornado paintings; one was the one I started a few weeks ago while being interviewed for a Weather Channel segment about my tornado paintings.  It’s changed a lot since it was [...]

Jetsons’ Holiday Encaustic on Baltic Birch 10″ x 10″ x 1.75″ deep © 2009 Marilyn Fenn This is the second of my Organics series using encaustic.  I have started several more in this series in oil, and will likely attempt some in acrylic, as well.  And of course, there are all the sketches. This piece went [...]

Happy Together Encaustic and rice paper on Baltic birch 10″ x 10″ x 1.75″ deep © 2009 Marilyn Fenn Painting in Encaustic: Liberation and Challenge For about the past year-and-a-half, I have been in a bit of despair over how to continue working in encaustic. I started using encaustic paints in 2006. Encaustic paint is pigment suspended [...]

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.

Coming Right at Ya Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper 9″ x 12″ © 2009 Marilyn Fenn Ta-da!!!  More rocks.  The ~65th small work of 2009.

Rocks and Flowers Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper 12″ x 9″ © 2009 Marilyn Fenn Every now and then, a landscape sneaks out, even though my aim is non-representational work. Whaddya gonna do?

Circuits Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper 12″ x 9″ © 2009 Marilyn Fenn