Artist's Statement:

"I make art to reflect upon places of interest in everyday life and travels.  I work with soft pastels, oil paints, watercolors and ink pens. I use these mediums to capture mostly landscapes and architecture.  When utilizing various mediums, I can depict a scene in different ways.  For example, I can create a "painterly" interpretation of a place using pastels or oils to describe the temperature, time of day, movement in the surroundings and even emotions from the experience of being there.   I tend to use a more illustrative approach with drawing mediums such as ink or watercolors to describe accurate or imaginary details in a scene." 

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Artist's Bio:

Marianne Hadley Berman lives in Simsbury, CT.  She started as a freelance ink pen illustrator while earning a degree in Telecommunications from Indiana University.  After graduating, Marianne worked as a TV news reporter for an NBC affiliate station in Columbia, SC until deciding to move to New York, NY.  There, she was hired by the Xerox Corporation, where she managed accounts in business, fashion and the NYC government.  In 1993, Marianne and her husband moved to Connecticut to raise their two daughters.  Throughout her adult life, Marianne has been teaching a variety of group exercise classes and is also a certified personal fitness trainer.  Alongside all of her professional and personal pursuits, Marianne ALWAYS made art and dreamed of painting professionally at some point in time.  That time is now.

 

Affiliations:

Connecticut Pastel Society-Executive Board Member

Farmington Valley Arts Center

West Hartford Art League

Avon Arts Association

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