Marion Rispin
Frequently nourished and enlightened by the pictures she created in her youth, Melbourne artist Marion Rispin considered paper, pencils and paints her childhood toys. Deviating to train as an educator in science and home economics, just prior to the commencement of motherhood, she taught in the secondary schooling system for more than three decades. When the college where she was appointed at announced its intentions to provide graphic communication as a mode of study, she volunteered to undertake the relevant graduate diploma in order to initiate the program. This venture inevitably facilitated her to come full circle, reigniting her initial passion and purpose for art, whilst enabling her to acquire an entirely new subset of skills and creative processes. After teaching the subject over a ten-year period, she retired from the profession entirely, in order to create and educate from inside her own studio.
Working within a primarily contemporary impressionistic execution, in an effort to artistically yield the beauty and fragility of the organic environment, Marion’s work seizes its inspiration from open air spaces. High country backdrops, clifftop perspectives and parkland sceneries and foliage bear great influence over the subjects and scapes she depicts. When commencing at the canvas she typically begins with a series of reference sources, such as photographic imagery or written materials whose linguistic descriptions align with her conceptual ideas. After sketching a sequence of images and determining precisely which genre the work will lean into, she experiments with a number of colour combinations and earnestly generates the work across a multitude of layers. Broad in scope yet refined in subject, Marion amalgamates expressionism, with bouts of abstract and realism, to portray scenes of affluence, contrast and inquiry.
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Acrylic on canvas
76cm x 60cm x 3.5cm
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Heart of our land, our textured red centre brings inspiration for crafting paintings that are brilliant in colour and convey that ancient background. Our Red Centre is a medium sized painting telling a very ancient story.
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Acrylic on canvas
120cm x 60cm x 3.5cm
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Imagine by John Lennon has always been the song to make me refocus to see that this earth and all its impossible beauty is what we all have now. This paintings has actually grown out of these feelings of connectedness to our land, to our endless shores and the weave of the land in rich and natural beauty.
The painting seemed to gather momentum and take form from imagining.
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Acrylic on canvas
76cm x 76cm x 3.5cm
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The last light on a dark day, highlighting the bright white of flowers and almost glistening, has inspired me to paint this somewhat fanciful abstract Night Garden. The colours are bright against darker blues, turquoise and greens in the background. The canvas has texture which highlights the white and gold outlines.
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Acrylic on canvas
32cm x 42cm x 5cm
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The third in this series of flowering plants in the garden. The flowers have been given a larger than life appearance on these small framed canvasses. This time the Leucadendron glows forth in its rich creamy yellow, set against the darker foliage. The inspiration for this series is the garden which never fails to delight.
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Acrylic on canvas
32cm x 42cm x 5cm
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In late spring and early summer the Silver Princess explodes with a profusion of tiny blooms. The brilliant red and pink flowers burst from rich silvery grey buds. The flowers, the blue green leaves, and the silvery bells are a beautiful combination of colours and shapes.
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Acrylic on canvas
32cm x 42cm x 5cm
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In spring the Fairy Magnolia explodes with a profusion of tiny blooms. The creamy white flowers burst from rich red brown buds. The flowers, the blue green leaves, and red brown buds are a beautiful combination of colours and shapes. This small paintings has a pine frame.
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Acrylic on canvas
80cm x 50cm x 2cm (diptych)
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The inspiration for this pair of paintings was a section of the garden with the dark fence framing the variety of beautiful flowers. The colours and shapes in this diptych are semi abstract and have a relaxed feel. The paintings work equally well hung closely, or with a small separation.
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Acrylic on canvas
150cm x 101cm x 4cm
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The Mossman Gorge typifies much of the northern Australian land as it was millions of years ago. The river and the gorge are alive with the beauty and energy of an environment that we are in danger of losing. This painting is a semi abstract view of my impressions of the beautiful clear waters and monolithic rocks forming the ebb and flow of the river. It is also an expression of how I feel about this area of our country.
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Acrylic on canvas
121cm x 91cm x 4cm
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The love of our diverse, resilient country inspired this abstract landscape. Contemplating the way in which cities grow and seem to dominate the landscape, but knowing that their time is fleeting and they will be returned to the earthly, robust natural environment. The focus in creating this painting was working with the reds and ochres to create a landscape that seemingly dwarfed the shapes of the city. Having returned to this painting after a number of months I have added in those ghostly shapes which to me represent the past in our landscape.
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Acrylic on canvas
90cm x 75cm x 4cm
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Another in the High Country Victoria series. This time the focus is the changes in the light as storms move in over the mountains. The rock formations seem to appear brighter as the light behind dims. The ghostly shapes are a reminder of the ever changing landscape. The painting takes elements of the area rather than a realistic view of the rolling hills. The colours ochres, mauves and misty haze have added brilliance. The trees are the element that draws the view through the painting.
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Acrylic on canvas
91cm x 60cm x 4cm
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The spring flowers and the reappearance of birds, and the odd butterfly in the garden, led to this still life with apples and beautiful pots of flowers. The foreground objects are detailed with a contemporary feel. Gold details add a little glamour and the butterflies, there are two, add whimsy to the painting.
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Acrylic on canvas
76cm x 76cm x 4cm
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This painting is another in the whimsical still life series. Watching the birds in the garden fossicking for food and just loving the fruits was the inspiration for this painting. The painting is impressionism in style with a little abstraction. The colours bright and the size perfect for any room in the home.
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Acrylic on canvas
121cm x 50cm x 4cm
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Abstract landscapes are the paintings I love to work with because of the amazing depth and breadth of our beautiful land. Sky, Land, Water arose from a collection of photos taken years ago in high country Victoria. Pulling together sky, land and aspects of the waterways, I created an abstract expression of our country. The presence of ghostly rocks is a reminder of the evolving nature of our land.
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Acrylic on canvas
40cm x 50cm x 2cm
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The inspiration for this pair of paintings was a section of the garden with the dark fence framing the variety of beautiful flowers. The colours and shapes are semi abstract and have a relaxed feel. The painting is small but packs a punch of colour. It can be paired with the second painting to form a diptych.
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Acrylic on canvas
40cm x 50cm x 2cm
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The inspiration for this pair of paintings was a section of the garden with the dark fence framing the variety of beautiful flowers. The colours and shapes are semi abstract and have a relaxed feel. The painting is small but packs a punch of colour. It can be paired with the second painting to form a diptych.
Purchasing from Marion Rispin:
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I do not currently offer framing.
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