Following study at the Royal Academy Schools, Marion has continued to work as a practising artist. Her drawings and paintings relate to the landscape sky earth and ocean. They are her response to her surroundings made through drawings and colour notes, making reference to the subtle layers of colours and differing atmospheres. The paintings are intuitive, the image growing out of the paint almost unconsciously allowing the paintings to pick up on their own logic and direction. As the work has developed an underlying rectilinear structure has emerged which is constantly and automatically reappearing in the paintings. She enjoys a healthy dialogue with her work in that it's very much a two way thing..." it works on me and I work on it"
In Marion's painting the act of painting and joy of the paint is apparent. She mixes beeswax into her oil paint giving the paint a matt texture and a more physical and sometimes delicate character to the surface of some of the paintings. Although her palette is subdued and limited, the paintings are multi layered, charged with emotion and full of feeling. "I try to give the viewer something to which he/she can react subjectively... not to be admired for any technical or intellectual reason... but to be felt." Brice Marden
Drawing and the practice of drawing have always been very important. Marion's drawing is usually about line, its lightness and weight, its gesture and energy.
Artists who Marion admires and who have influenced her painting are Giorgio Morandi, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Blinky Palermo and William Scott.
The Artist