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	Marianne Mölgård has an extraordinary gift for capturing the human perspective in any scene. She puts you there, the secret watcher.
With the magic of her brush, she gives us living windows to experience the wonder of the moment.
You can smell the sea and hear the wheeling gulls ...the wash of surf on sand and rock.	It begs you to dare step within its quiet gentleness.
The crunch of snow, the hush, the pending laughter...you can feel the glow of life.

My name is Marianne Molgard, a Swedish woman of 44 years. I live in a little village called Skarblacka just outside Norrkoping.

Drawing and painting have always followed my life, some periods more, some less. Portraiture is my passion. Over the years I have worked in oils, acrylics, watercolors, and done drawings and charcoal drawings. Oil is the medium lovely to work with, its follows the hand and though, feeling and blends the colors fantastic. Acrylics have many advantages: they dry quickly, they have no bothersome chemicals, and no smells.

My passion for painting in watercolors is primarily in the freshness and lovely vitality of the colors.

Charcoal drawings give me wonderful challenges in depicting gradations of light and shade. I always carry my drawing tools with me [in my bag/purse].

My ambition is to give my paintings a realistic look and a special atmosphere. In my portraits I aim at a realistic and true look and living portrait. I paint portraits, landscapes, animals or the object that the ordered wishes, from photographs in different mediums; oil, acrylic, watercolor or charcoal / pencil.

Marianne started to teach in 1993 when several aspiring artists requested her to teach them. Since that time, Marianne's school, sponsored by the local educational association, has given five exhibitions with more planned. Marianne is a convert to the Betty Edward's method of right brain drawing, and is inspired by many notable artists, including Kimon Nicolaides, whom she quotes:

"To learn to draw is a question about how to learn to see - to see right - and that means appreciable more than to just look with the eyes."
-- Kimon Nicolaides

The work of Marianne Mölgård can be seen at: http://www.zentao.com/sas/graphart/Molgard/ and http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-52663/MAJ/majsan6.htm

You can email Marianne Mölgård at marianne.molgard@swipnet.se