About the Artist
Denise Marie
Original Oil Paintings, Impressionist, Naturalist, Photography, Muralist
Denise Marie is an oil-painter from Pennsylvania. She grew up in Philadelphia. She began painting as a child, and in high school, received an award at a Bucks County Art Show for a graphic design in tissue paper.
Denise went on to receive her BFA in Painting from Kutztown University. She has been painting for over 40 years. Her work in oils is representative/impressionistic in style, choosing florals, sunsets, sky-scapes, portraits, landscapes, waterscapes and a series of Children at Play. Murals are a favorite as well. Most work begins with a Photograph.
Denise Marie has exhibited in mostly local venues, Laurel, at Montpelier Mansion, and in Annapolis at Circle Gallery, in Maryland. Her work is also available at local venues such as Franklins Brewery and Restaurant in Hyattsville, MD, New Deal Cafe and the Greenbelt Art Center in Greenbelt, MD; Prince George's Plaza Community Center, in Hyattsville, MD. She has also exhibited at the Wayne K. Curry Sports & Learning Center in Landover, MD. and at Angels Touch Skin Care and Wellness Spa in Greenbelt, MD, at the Bowie City Hall, in Bowie MD., Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham MD and the Priddy Library at the University of MD in Rockville, MD. She has also shown at the Asman Gallery at NBC Studios in Washington, DC.
She is curator and president of HCAA, a Hyattsville Community Arts Alliance group showing in Prince George's County. Her photographs and paintings have been on exhibit at the Chestertown River Arts on the Eastern Shore.
Denise has also shown in Pennyslvania at Kutztown University. She has also had a solo exhibit at Village Gallery in Oriental, NC., several at New Deal Cafe, and at the Greenbelt Art Center, in Greenbelt, MD and she has exhibited in several solo exhibitions at the WSSC Gallery in Laurel, MD. Denise has shown in a juried international exhibition at the Mennonite World Conference in Harrisburg, PA. She has participated in over 300 art exhibits, festivals and craft shows. She won 1st place at the Greenbelt Labor Day festival for oil painting.
She is curating the art exhibits at Prince George's Plaza Community Center since January 9, 2010, and curates the work at the HCAA exhibits at Fleishers Of Maryland and the Franklins Brewery & Restaurant exhibitions.
Denise also works in tissue paper collage, and murals. An extensive work in murals was done for a group home called, Second Family, a program working with severely disabled children, needing 24 hour care. An entire floor of rooms was done on walls and accent painting over windows and doorways.
Another approach has been her series of Children At Play TM. These are portraits of children in an activity captured by photo, then painted on canvas, a moment of their childhood saved forever.
Denise and Richard have committed 10% of their sales to various charities, including: Doctors Without Boarders, Mennonite Central Committee, Habitat For Humanity, World Vision, Concern Treatment Foster Care Program, Anacostia Watershed Society, St. Josephs Indian School, and the ACLU.
Contact her at: [email protected], or 301-806-8886
