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
122cm 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.
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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
90cm x 60cm x 2cm
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The High Country Victoria is a favourite landscape for my painting. This time it has a semi abstract feel. The hills and distant mountains form a pattern of tonal variations and the lines are broken with the tree and scrub shapes. The created texture adds to the feeling of never ending levels of the hills. The painting brings tonal colour and movement to the landscape.
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Acrylic on canvas
91cm x 60cm x 2cm
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Always inspirational. Early morning or evening walks when the mist rolls in and starts to change the colours and shapes of the hills and mountains. The mist seems to add a peace although, at times, also a chill. Loving the land in all its transitions.
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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
42cm x 52cm x 5cm
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A vase of new spring flowers inspired this semi abstract still life. The glass vase reflected the lights and hints of gold.
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Acrylic on canvas
42cm x 52cm x 5cm
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Spring walks on the cliff tops and the wrens are flitting in and out of the grasses and having quite animated conversations. This is the first in a series smaller paintings, using gold to capture the light.
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The cost to ship my works varies between $45 - $100 within Australia, depending on the distance. I use Australia Post for paintings up to 105cm in length and DHL, Startrack and Couriers Please for larger works.
International shipping varies between A$120 - A$280, depending again on the destination.
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I do not currently offer framing.
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