The Outdoors, Walking, and Maps: Art by Marilyn Joyce
Intersections #4, map strips and cold wax on birch ply
Our featured artist today is Marilyn Joyce. Located just outside of Portland, Oregon, Marilyn currently focuses her art practice on the outdoors, walking, and maps. Her soft, evocative drawings on tea-coloured paper offer a nice compliment to her collages of fragmented maps.
45122e8, ink, tea, coffee, pencil, casein and wax on Arches paper
Marilyn’s map collages look like birch forests, and, fittingly, use birch ply as a base surface. Marilyn’s fascination with maps also manifests in the maps that she has drawn herself, using a variety of materials on watercolour paper to create a look that is in between a realistic, hand-drawn map, and an abstract painting.
Little One #10, ink, charcoal, graphite, Korean watercolour, and wax on tea-stained Arches paper
I love Marilyn’s bird drawings, where she uses a combination of watercolours, charcoal, ink and other materials to capture the earthy brown feathers and fragile posture of the small creatures. The blurred effect that she achieves through bleeding watercolours is really quite lovely.
