Mari’s work is collected internationally in over 80 collections both private and corporate and has been featured in 45 solo and group exhibits throughout California. She works in pastel, oil and acrylic expressing a rich world of beautifully flowing motion and electric colors. Her unique abstract figurative work invokes a dreamlike emotional quality that connects the figure to the environment and to other figures.
Couples and their energy is a reoccurring theme.

Recent Solo Exhibits:
Rochioli Vineyard, Sonoma County
Barefoot Gallery, Mill Valley

Recent Group Exhibits:
O’Hanlin Center for the Arts, Mill Valley
Marin Civic Center
Marin Open Studios, ICB Building, Sausalito

Background:
University of California, Berkeley Comparative Literature
University of Mexico, Mexico City Painting & Drawing
University of Hawaii, Manoa Sculpture & Art History
San Francisco Art Institute Sculpture

Artist's Statement:
A North Bay native I have always been surrounded by incredible natural beauty and have had an ongoing interest in storytelling, mythology and archetypes. I enjoy painting the landscape and the human form.

Often my art becomes a dreamscape with elements of both that come together catching a moment in a story, such as a journey, discovery, communion with nature, ecstatic states, or prayer. Lines and colors connect the forms depicting the connectedness between all things.

I love brilliant color and use layers of gels, washes and pastels to create texture.