Paintings by Marilyn James
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In the 1960’s when my children were young, I visited with my artist brother.  He painted a scene for me using an old window shade stretched on an old window screen, and left-over house paint.  I was fascinated.  When I returned home I got out my children’s tempera paint and started painting.

After years of painting with oils, pastels and watercolors, I returned to oil paints, this time using water soluble oils on stretched canvas. I paint simplified subjects, letting the paint take me where it will, not tied to the original inspiration. I am particularly drawn to trees,"deep rooted they grow below yet stretching upward high.  They touch so delicately the sky!" (Dorothy Pierson's poem--Like Trees).  Painting is my way of celebrating people,  places, and things around me..



 

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