Darlene Marzari

After I left politics in 1996, I turned to painting, along with a few other things to bring me back to basics;    not that I was returning to an old passion, simply that the local community centre had a watercolour class and I jumped at it as if this is what I should have been doing years earlier.  It was. 

I have painted with the Vancouver Art  Guild before it knew it was a guild. Fran Alley taught art at the community centre before she got a day job and I was one of the lucky number that she couldn't avoid every Wednesday afternoon in the North Room at the Jericho  Building we call home. 

I like splashing colours and thanks to Fran , I now know a little about how to splash. I'm a social painter  and need the group around me, laughing, gossiping,  critiquing each others' work,  to do anything remotely  interesting.

I do still lifes and landscapes in watercolour and acrylic and conduct  a tiny flirtation with oils at my cabin which is, to say the least, well ventilated. People tell me I am prolific and I take that as a compliment. My pleasure is in playing with techniques and paints, and losing time with a canvas until someone tells me it's "done".  The Guild is such a wonderful group to lose time with!!    

CONTACTING THE ARTIST

email: darlene.marzari@vancouverartguild.com