Michelle Marshall Luminous Landscapes Michellemarshallpaintings.com Signature Member Baltimore Watercolor Society Awards: First Place Plein Air Coastal Delaware 2012 Painting Selected by Senator Coons for Display in Washington, D.C. Offices 2011 Artwork Featured on Alyson Stanfield's Art Biz Blog August 2, 2010 Local Artist Award 2011 Rehoboth Art League VIA Featured in Beach Life Magazine April 2010 Honorable Mention 2010 RAL Plein- Air Paint Out 2009 Featured Artist at the Beebe Medical Foundation Best of the Beach Art Auction Local Artist Award 2009 Rehoboth Art League VIA Judges Choice Award 2005 Ocean City Arts Alive First Place 2004 Circle Gallery Landscapes National Exhibition, Annapolis First Place Children's Beach House Art Show - Awards: 2004, 2003, 2001 First Place 2003 Hardcastle Gallery Evening of Art Goodstay Center, Wilmington Local Artist Award 2003 Rehoboth Art League VIA Mary Derrickson McCurdy Award 2001 Rehoboth Art League Local Artist Award 2000 Rehoboth Art League VIA Solo Shows: Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, Delaware 2010 Rehoboth Art League 2007 Swan Gallery Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 2006 Group Shows: Oxford Maryland Fine Arts Show Best of the Beach Beebe Medical Center Live Art Auction Selection Since: 2004. Featured artist 2009 2009 Delaware Women's Conference Juried Exhibition Rehoboth Art League Outdoor Show Since: 1998 St. Peter's Art Show Since: 2002 Rittenhouse Square Art Show 2005, 2006 Delaware Agricultural Museum 2004 Painting Instructor - Rehoboth Art League 2000 - 2004 BA Fine Art - University of Delaware Represented by: The Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, Delaware and Gallery One , Oceanview, Delaware Michelle Marshall Artist Statement The open marshes, the ocean & bay and the ever changing sky where they meet and become one is the source of my inspiration, the jumping off place. I feel challenged to create a sense of atmosphere and to capture or conjure a kind of emotional afterimage. I consider myself a figurative expressionist, while grounded in the natural world my paintings become a matter of abstracting and distilling the details until the painting hovers between abstraction and representation.