Marsh arrived in the world March 7, 196something. She grew up in a small north Texas town where she always dreamed of being an artist. “When the other girls were busy with their Barbie’s I would be in my room with pencils or paints trying to copy the faces in the magazines on to a canvas.”
Marsh recounts that her first Art teacher was Mrs. Barbara Bean. “I was fourteen years old and completely impressed; I wanted to be just like her, she was beautiful and talented, she could paint and draw and teach others to do it also.”
Marsh remembers her next Art teacher as being Mrs. Lavern Easter. This is where she was introduced to the Art of primitive pottery, an Art form that she loves to this day.
After High School Marsh got married and divorced and married again. She finally decided to go to college. She attended Midwestern State University from 1988 to 1992. She studied drawing with Richard Ash (the printmaker), and painting with Elizabeth Yaros Ash (the watercolorist). She studied design and ceramics with Larry Davis, and commercial art with Gary Goldberg. She has attended various painting, drawing, and stained glass workshops over the years. She is also a very accomplished carpenter, and enjoys making furniture and additions to her home. In 1992 Marsh was divorced again.
Marsh is a recovering alcoholic and has been clean and sober since July 2, 1992 and for this miracle she is thankful to God everyday. She met her husband (Scott) at an AA meeting April 9, 1993 a day she counts as one of the luckiest of her life. Scott and Marsh blended their families and had another child together. They now have 4 children, and three grandchildren.
Marsh still loves to paint faces. She has been doing portraits professionally for 20 years. Some of her work over the years has been controversial; she has painted the events of her life such as addiction, domestic violence, eating disorders and cultural diversity issues. She has painted political issues expressing her strong viewpoints on such subjects as global warming and the destruction of the rainforests.
Marsh has entered a new stage of her life over the past few years.
“I finally feel settled and able to explore my interests; the past has been about taking care of others and having very little time for my art, but now with all but one of my children grown up I have time to paint and create what’s in my head.”
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