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MARILYN M. KING

GREEN BOWL OF CHERRIES
Oil on gessoed hardboard 6.5 x 6"
Price upon request

PEELED ORANGE
Oil on gessoed hardboard 6 x 6"
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Bio
Marilyn King was raised in Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia and currently makes her home in Atlanta. She earned a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Georgia State University with a major in Illustration. Upon the completion of her college degree, she was privileged to undertake a long apprenticeship under an award winning American illustrator, David M Gaadt. Her 25+ year career as an illustrator gave her opportunity to work in multiple mediums and a plethora of styles achieving a wide range and depth of artistic and creative skills. Her commissions range from advertising art for Fortune Five Hundred Companies to book covers and editorial illustrations for various publishers across the U.S.
She took a brief hiatus from her art career to work in a family business but couldn’t stay away long. In 2007 she made a transition into fine art by concentrating on small still lifes in oil. In 2008 she began sharing this personal creative journey via an on-line art blog plus began selling her small paintings on eBay. She also offers her work on-line in the Perez Contemporary Art Gallery. She gets excited with the knowledge that her work now hangs in collections across the US and in many nations abroad.

Artist statement
“I see beauty in everyday life and am constantly seeing 'painting' subjects everywhere I look. As an illustrator my main concentration was on portraying a product or communicating a story or message. I would choose the most effective style or medium for the assignment. Now I am more free to explore the paint itself, to glory in the sensuousness of oil paint with the use of fluid brush strokes. As I paint a still life or intimate landscape, I’m trying to capture the essence of beauty which I perceive and to communicate to the viewer that which they may not have noticed. I hope my work is visual poetry as defined by Webster: showing the "lyrical" quality or structural perfection of an object, act, or experience”.

For more extensive artist's bio, articles and list of exhibitions, visit her website or blog.

MIDNIGHT SNACK
Oil on gessoed board 12 x 9"
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PEAR ON DOVETAILED BOX
Oil on gessoed hardboard 7 x 5"
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APPLES IN TARNISHED SILVER
Oil on gessoed board 5 x 7"
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RED AND GREEN TOMATOES
Oil on gessoed board 5 x 7"
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BACKLIT ORANGES
Oil on canvas mounted
on hardboard 6 x 6"
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RASPBERRY JELLY No.2
Oil on gessoed board 8 x 6"
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POMERGRANATE AND BLUE TIN
Oil on gessoed board 5 x 7"
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PEACH COBBLER?
Oil on gessoed board 6 x 8"
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