Connie Marshall
Watercolor
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High on a hillside overlooking the Susquehanna River near my home town of Port Deposit, Maryland, my love for art took root. During my teenage years there I studied under Paul Honore, a well-known artist, muralist, illustrator and printmaker listed in Who’s Who in America in his time. Here in his little art colony, I studied oil painting and posed for his classes one evening a week to pay for my lessons.
After marriage and two children and a move to the Mojave Desert in California due to my husband’s employment as an engineer in aerospace, I once again took up oil painting and became a member of a small art gallery in Lancaster, California. Several years later my husband’s job brought us to Florida and the Kennedy Space Center. Here I studied oil with Narcissa Perrin, a local artist for a few years. However, a twenty years career in nursing and another child seemed to take precedence over art until my retirement. That is when I discovered watercolor and have taken many classes and workshops with well-known artists.
I am a member of the Brevard Watercolor Society, the Central Brevard Art Association, the Titusville Art League and the Florida Watercolor Society, and Brevard Cultural Alliance. Locally I have shown my work in various places around the area and have been in several art shows. My paintings have been featured in Central Brevard Art Association calendars. The Florida Watercolor Society accepted one of my paintings for the Salon De Refuses section of their 2008 annual show in Delray Beach. Other awards include an honorable mention at a Brevard Zoo Art Show, a third place ribbon at the Brevard Wildlife Show at the Merritt Island Refuge and a first place ribbon at Carole Wilen’s Student Show in 2008. I have received awards from the Titusville Art League Spring Show and the BWS Splash show. In the fall of 2010 I received a “Best of Show” for my painting “Out on a Limb” at the Merritt Island Wildlife Show at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Center.