Marilyn Fenn Studio

My work is about the joy of seeing the beauty of shapes in paint. It ranges from total abstraction to images drawn from the world around us.
Some of my new work is inspired by patterns at different scales in the natural world – from molecules to ice sheets to nebulae. Some of my recent [...]

“My Alien Friend”
Oil on Canvas
6″x6″
©2008

“Planet’s Edge”
Acrylic on Canvas Paper, mounted on Masonite
6″x6″
©2008

This is that time of year when I think it’s natural for us to look back and see what we accomplished (so we’ll know what to focus on next year, and what to pat ourselves on the back for).
This has been a really good year for me, artwise, and I think–even with this sucky economy–it’s [...]

“Painting on the Train…in Vain”
acrylic on canvas paper, mounted on masonite
6″ x 6″
©2008
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 I painted 5 little paintings on the [...]

“Soaring”
Acrylic on Canvas
36″ x 36″
©2008
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 work for the five of us in [...]

Five Austin Painters Show in Fort Worth
Jill Alo, Kathleen Claps, Linda Anderson, Bill Wahlgren andI had a big show at the Fort Worth Community Art Center on October 3rd (the day the Dow fell 777 points!).  A lot of people came for the opening, though perhaps not as many as we had expected.  But the [...]

“Asia”
Acrylic on Canvas
36″ x 36″
©2008
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 for some supplies, and they had [...]

This week’s paintings are 2 5×7’s that were donated to the Arthouse at the Jones Center.
The Art Splurge and Exhibition begins on May 17th, with an opening from 7:30 – 10pm.

Class notes from Poetic Non-Representational Acrylic Painting with Andrew Long, Fall 2007
The object in the painting – is it being an object vs. being a facsimile of the object? Does it have a history, a great hook, and richness, a fullness, or is it empty?
What’s the difference between this abstract piece of art [...]