Fresh from Paris, watercolor artist Marianna Victoria Mashek has a new exhibition hanging at The Tennis Club of Santa Barbara through September 6, 2019 open to the public. Marianna Mashek grew up in an artistic environment of fine art, music, and dance in Santa Barbara, California. Her mother, Galina Sakharoff Mashek, was an artist and art teacher who taught and inspired her early in childhood. Marianna’s artwork is a personal journey of both the inner world and outward expressions and nuances of love, romance, and culture. Having majored in fine art studies at UCSB,drawing and painting are her favorite mediums. Marianna loves to draw from observation of nature and details of life, as well as painting from her imagination to describe stories and feelings. She has painted calligraphy and images on walls as well as illustration for books.
Marianna’s vision is to have her artwork inspire others to delight in beauty, love and their own dreams. "There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique and if you block it, it will never exist through any medium and will be lost…the world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions…it is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open."
Martha Graham in a letter to Agnes De Mille
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