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 [...]

Knot Acrylic on canvas 36″ x 36″ © 2008 Marilyn Fenn Another painting of mine has been included in a very cute Etsy Treasury, complete with a joke. Check out the whole beautful treasury, curated by Kendra of laylaloustudio, at this link on Etsy.

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

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]