Artist’s Statement

Each painting of mine begins the same way. First with my eye, at all times ready to photograph the image that inexplicably draws me to it. Then with my hand and a pencil to make a detailed drawing of a portion of that image. And finally, with my heart, which reinterprets the picture through color and mood. The result is something I refer to as psychological landscapes.

My oils of isolated figures and lonely cityscapes reflect the illustrative style of the graphic artist I once was. I am drawn to the landscape as a surrealistic design template, with alternate realities, repetitions of shape, and ambiguous meaning. I love playing with contrast and perspective and, though I think of myself as a fairly cheerful person, I admit to being drawn to the dark and slightly twisted.

I want my richly colored oil paintings to portray a surrealistic world, which draws the viewer into an altered sense of space, time and atmosphere.

Biography

Marjie Lewis Quint is a Philadelphia based painter who received a B.A. in Graphic Design from The George Washington University and the Corcoran School of Art. She worked in commercial art for 12 years, primarily in Washington DC and Minneapolis, before moving to Philadelphia where she decided to concentrate on oil painting.

Quint is a member of ArtSisters and DaVinci Art Alliance. She has exhibited throughout the MidAtlantic region and her work is in collections of private homes as well as a variety of commercial spaces. Her work explores the dialogue between graphic design and fine art - rooted in realism, balance, and form, but imbued with an interpretative rendering of mood and emotion.

In addition to her fine art work, she continues to work on freelance graphic design projects and teaches art to both children and adults.