About Marjorie Vernelle and VernelleStudio.com

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In terms of art, I propose a toast. Here's to Art! I've taken the long route.  Art was always around me in my grandmothers' quilts, my dad's appreciation of beauty, and my mother's own paintings. I dabbled with it in my early adult life in San Francisco, though my degrees are in completely different subjects.  They led to a fine career teaching Language Arts, both at high school and college levels.  However, I always kept an interest in both producing art and studying art history. In 2019 I started a blog in which I talk of my experiences studying and viewing art in my years in Europe, mostly in France where I lived for about ten years. In 2020, I started profiling other artists, which I now do once a month.​ I also started another blog, OfArtandWine.com, where I talk about famous paintings and pair them with wines. Below is a list of the exhibitions of my art work over the years.

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Education:  Bachelor of Arts Degree, University of Toronto, Canada

                 Master of Arts Degree, San Francisco State University, California

                 Plus teaching certificates in English and Spanish.

 

Art Education: Courses in drawing and painting from a variety of sources in the 1970s,                      Academy of Art, San Francisco; University of California, Berkeley Extension,                      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art School and De Young Museum Art                    School

 

Expositions: I started showing art in the 1980s, less so in the '90s because of work,

                  and started showing again in 2005.

 

 1980s        Perception Art Gallery, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. Group shows and

                 Two and Three-person shows.

 

 1985         Solo Exhibition of landscapes at the French Restaurant connected to

                 Domaine-Chandon winery, Napa Valley, CA.

 

 1986-88     Gi'nette Gardens Gallery, Oakland, CA.

 

 1986-88     Village Artistry Gallery, Carmel, CA.

 

 1998         Solo Exhibition of French landscapes, Ward St. Cafe, La Jolla, CA.

 

 2005-        Business of Art Center (now Manitou Springs Art Center), Manitou

     2008     Springs, CO.

 

 2013          Solo Exhibition of watercolor landscapes, A4 Kunststube Gallery, 

                  Zug, Switzerland.

 

 2014         Exposition of Provençal landscapes, Chez Micaela, Avignon, France.

 

 2015         Les Aquarelles  solo exhibition of watercolors, Come Prima, disquaire et                           galerie d'art, Avignon, France

 

 2017-18     Pikes Peak Library District displays at Library 21C and Cheyenne Mountain.                      PPLD Featured Artist for March, 2018.

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 2018         About Face: Portraits x 3 with Sue Johnson and Rita Scafidi at Pikes Perk

                 Coffeehouse, North Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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 2019         Life Drawing from MAC, Group Show at Bridge Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO

                           

                 Figures and Faces from the Life Drawing Open Studio, Cottonwood Artists,                       Colorado Springs, CO

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 2020         Art on Display and for Sale in VernelleStudio.com