Marian Rennie

I am excited about my toe in the water return to storytelling … after 25 years of painting I have returned to the surrounds of my childhood where it all began .. the open countryside has replaced the inner city … the colours are so different … the stories are new and exciting … painting has always been my first love … to be able to express every aspect of life on canvas … to be able to look back over the years and see the stories that I have told … this becomes diary of my life … not in words … but pictures. A painting can bring back to life a past moment … window over time I sometimes call them … an empty canvas is the beginning of a new journey … where will it take me … beginning with an idea, the exciting part is that I never know where it will lead, what the final outcome will be … that is the journey of a painting until it stands on its own as a completed piece … often to live with someone else .. there are some that I cannot part with … they still live with me … Launching this website is another exciting step … a way to share these works with you and a way to keep telling the new stories as they develop .. it is not easy being an artist … it is soul-baring , economically precarious and ‘bloody hard work’… I was about seven when I first began my love affair with painting … I will never stop painting … the passion is still there … the influences on my life have been diverse .. working in many areas of theatre and the arts over time … one of my favourite quotes is by U.S. philosopher Henry David Thoreau … “most men (and women) live lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” It is a quote that reaffirms my chosen path. “I would say to anyone with a dream that if you can push through the fear….you can live your dream and find your voice” I cannot resist the beauty of our world, be it our physical surrounds or the complexity and character of the human form and its emotional landscape. What is more exciting than colour and its infinite interplay of hue and tone, or form with its inate strengths and frailties, and the weaving of these into visual stories of our lives? Completing the voyage from inanimate state of ‘empty canvas and an array of paint and brushes’ to a work that can breathe life never fails to satisfy an inexplicable need deep within my being. www.marianrennie.com.au Follow me on Instagram MARIANRENNIE