What about me? I just really, really, really like to work. ‘Workaholic’ about sums it up. I’m not proud of that, or that I’m something of a recluse, or that left on my own I’m not particularly good at having fun, but there it is.

I’m a Midwestern townie by birth but moved a lot… the best places have been a log house in Montana with horses right outside my window, and a farm along the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. Out of the many day jobs I had before working full time as an artist, the only one that really suited me was a wonderful summer working at a nursery.

What I can tell you about ART and me is that it’s been my work and play for as long as I can remember. I love doing it, don’t feel right when I’m not doing it, and am lucky enough to have more pictures in my head than I’ll ever be able to finish.

I spent some time in college as an art major – a year at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and two years at Montana State University in Bozeman – but describe myself as self-taught. I was never really there at school… it just didn’t seem practical enough to me at the time (I’d find it all more interesting and be a far better student at this point in my life!) and I was anxious to become part of the real world.

My way of learning has just been to work obsessively in one medium at a time until it almost seems I exhaust it, and move to another one.  Not the smartest way to do things when I had the chance to take the immediately recognized and respected path (which looks a lot better in a resume!), but again, there it is.

Talking about my work doesn’t come naturally, but I’ve gotten better about that. Talking about myself is something else again. I'm honored to have what follows written about me by someone who recently commissioned me to do a painting, and owns many other pieces of my work:

"Marci uses beauty so splendidly that it could be mistaken for the sole constituent of her work. Her subjects begin as real and grow into something more real. They involve and honor each other on many levels. They dream together. Viewers tend to react to her intimate figures somatically rather than intellectually, and dream with them, glimpsing Marci’s intent, her depth, and bathing in their own remembered moments and longings.

"Marci’s preoccupation with her work has never wavered, and her career is a consistent exploration of the limits and special advantages of her chosen mediums. Each design is an incorporation and expansion of prior techniques.

"Thirty years of spending herself on her profession have earned Marci a national following of devoted collectors. There is an authenticity to her work that is patently seductive, and admirers find themselves coming back again and again, looking forward to each new design.

"To the knowledgeable, Marci’s technical mastery and quality materials speak for themselves. The sensitive, regardless of their expertise, simply arrest themselves in front of her work and daydream. This pleases Marci, although her ambition is only to realize her visions. She merely creates, looking back and forth between the product in her hands and the living image in her mind’s eye, asking herself the question by which each line, each color, each element is judged for worthiness –
'Is it beautiful? Is it beautiful enough?'"

-- Thomas Wilde, unparalleled teacher of English, art lover, friend