south island montage 2007 Painting

Born 1956 Cambridge, New Zealand.vibrant pastel world of New Zealand artist Marion Towns.Internationally recognised, Marion has a credible list of major exhibitions behind her and her works sell to art lovers throughout the world.Marion Towns draws a powerful inspiration from nature and life. She does not record from the outside but expresses the feelings that identifies with the natural (including human) state of being. It is this ability to almost feel inside herself the essence of the landscape, to not only see the beauty and value of it but have deep and passionate connection with it. This is not new in New Zealand, the indigenous people of the country, the Maori have had a link with the land that is openly spiritual. Marion is not a Maori but in her own way mirrors the Maori concepts. She takes this love for the sky, sea and hills into her love and respect for humans. This takes the form of a devotion to painting the Nude. In recent years the two aspects have appeared together in her pictures. To Marion the Nude is not a symbol but is always a portrait of a real person in a real context and, put simply, the Nude for Marion is the reality of nature no less than are the hills she portrays.