Maryann Palmgren
Painting
Malinda

"I have lived nearly my entire life in the great state of South Carolina, and all of it by the sea - how lucky am I ?!  

I can remember loving everything about art from as early as the 1st grade, so as a freshman in college I registered my major as "Art" because deep down there wasn't really a choice to be made.    

By surprise, I later became a high school art teacher and, in one way or another, I have spent the bulk of my years sharing my love for art and its unfathomable depths with students of every age. Now it seems that I can finally scratch the itch I've had all my life to put paint on canvas.    

Painting delights, confuses, and surprises me all at the same time. I chase the colors and composition on every canvas until the art uncovers itself, settles in, and finds me instead of the other way around.  And when it finds me, what can I say except- how lucky am I ?!"