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“As an artist, I am committed to encourage others to celebrate faith in the ordinary of their lives. By sharing my spiritual journey through FAITH EXPRESSIONS, I hope others will share their stories, thus inspiring all of us along this pilgrim’s way to the Sacred.”

Born into a family of artists, Marianne experienced the creative journey at a young age. Her father was a scenic artist for the studios for 45 years. Drawing, painting and seeking out beauty in the ordinary, she developed artisitc expressions and created joy through images that celebrated her faith journey.

She has worked with puppets, clowning, bread baking and banner making before she found clay. Since that time (1985) she has chosen clay as her primary medium finding in it a way to express the inner life.

She gives retreats on the Spirituality of Creativity, Inner Healing and Baking Bread as Prayer Workshops. As a child, her mother would say, “dig in the earth or bake bread and you will come closer to God”. But watching her mother knead the loaves looked like hard work and weeding the garden was punishment to a child’s thinking.

Nevertheless, her mother’s words became prophetic. Marianne began baking bread for her growing family and it became for her a powerful metaphor of the Christian life. In 1985 her mother brought her some clay and from then on her artistic journey has been with this earth substance. Through these creations, she molds spirit into clay and expresses her journey as a pilgrim of faith and encourages the viewer to do the same.

Marianne developed her skills as a clay artist in the Southwest. One of her best loved projects was a Prayer garden. Under her direction as animator, vision keeper and teacher, she worked with artists and non-artists in the parish community to create over the course of 3 years, a wonderful prayer space with gardens, statuettes, tiles and murals of the life of Christ.

You will not be disappointed if you visit, our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Community in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Marianne studied commercial art at Woodbury College in Los Angeles. She presently lives in Southern California with her Husband.