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Marie Klement is an Australian artist, based in Adelaide, with extensive experience in portraiture, visionary art, illustration, mural and graphic arts. |
| Her work has been featured in various national and international magazines and catalogues, exhibitions and expos, as well as being in various collections in Sweden, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. |
| Marie seeks to enrich peoples' lives by painting subject matter which evoke profound feelings that uplift and inspire. |
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| My Story ... |
| “Ever since I can recall, there has always been a deep fascination for and great love of colour, nature and art. My decision to pursue a life in art, came after experiencing certain inspirational and uplifting feelings, which were evoked simply by gazing upon and contemplating various paintings created by Masters of long ago. |
| Mostly self taught as an artist, I had worked as a graphic artist and art director in the 1970’s and 1980’s for advertising agencies: George Pattersons, Leo Burnett, D'arcy McManus Masius and Fortune Advertising. Leaving advertising in the mid 80’s, I began freelancing fulltime as an artist, illustrating for various children’s books and magazines, including painting a 30ftx6ft (10mx2m) mural for a major opal company, Opal Field Gems, in Adelaide. |
| My work was entered in various exhibitions locally and nationally, which included a nationwide touring exhibition. The style of work, incorporates realism through to impressionist and abstract. |
| I have travelled to Europe, Asia, South America, the United States and the Pacific, living and working for a short while in Fiji, as a farmer (permaculture, organic and re-forestation) in the late 1980's, with my husband. After the coup in 1989, we moved to North Queensland, Australia, where we continued our farming practices. |
| In late 1992, my husband and I divorced and I began drawing in 1993 and painting again in 1996. My work has since been published nationally and internationally in magazines, such as Wellbeing, as prints and as cards for charities such as Oxfam (Community Aid Abroad). My work also resides in various collections throughout Europe – Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Asia. |
After returning to my hometown, Adelaide (South Australia) in 1996, I persued 18 months of training at the Adelaide Central School of Art from Lisa Young and Anna Platten. I had also taken up the rare intensive Masterclasses with one of Australia’s most successful and famous portrait painters – Robert Hannaford. |
| For over 10 years now, I have been working fulltime as an artist, supporting myself solely with commissions and selling paintings, prints and cards. |
| In mid 2006, I completed an artist mentorship program in France and Italy with one of America's leading successful visual artists - Scott Burdick. |
| In November/December of 2006, I was invited to Sedona in Arizona, U.S.A. by COL Publishing, to promote my work and present a lecture. I was also awarded a Government Grant by the Market Access Program in February 2007. |
| This is what I love to do now and there is a deep desire to share this with others who may also not only have an interest in the creative process but in the Spiritual as well.” |
| See also Marie's Exhibitions and Awards |
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