Marilyn Wells

Marilyn Wells is an American artist creating inspirational works from heart and soul, bridging earth, body, and the mystical This includes Sumi e, or ink on paper, based on poetry, prose or music, figurative oils portraying the divine feminine, CONTEMPORARY LINE DRAWINGS OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, And ABSTRACTs. "I long for color and I thirst for line. "... - Marilyn Wells Art was Magic from her earliest memories. Growing up in rural Nebraska during and after WWII, she saw worlds beyond hers through line drawings in childrens story books. Against the drab rooms and towns where she lived, she saw she could create new worlds with her brush and ink bottle. Here was the form she craved; here were her own stories. She was most recently featured in 5280 Magazine Dec 2020/Jan 2121, "Lights Out" End Page, Solo Art Show, Inviting the Mystic at Metropolitan Frame and has taught meditative Sumi e brushwork at Walker Fine Art in Denver, Colorado, & Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado. To alter my train of conscious thinking, I begin with an unfamiliar line of poetry, a haiku, a koan, or a piece of music I can bodily experience. An emotion within my body is evoked on a deeper level than the rational and verbal intellect. I am listening to a voice within me, not my head voice. After some warm up practice and reacquaintance with brushstrokes and the paint quality, I am quiet in front of a piece of rice paper. Then, out of this deeper space, I respond with my brush and my ink. The image is paintedalmost, it seems, of its own accordas if the brush has a voice of its own. I have often watched others as they sit with my unfamiliar and foreign work and writing. I watch their face come back renewed as though from a foreign land. There is a pure joy in heartful being that cannot be said. There is a pure joy in soulful oneness that cannot be said. Healing comes from that contemplative depth. It feels magical. The magic is real and is communicated in vibrating energies within myself, within the viewer, that move out into the world, ...Read More