Marianna Duford's Resume

	Marianna, a Colorado native and 2nd generation artist, was brought up with a passion for the outdoors! Her mother, a nationally recognized artist, encouraged her to paint and draw from infancy and has truly been an inspiration for following her artist’s heart. Under her mother’s tutelage, she became an enthusiastic student of art.
Photo by Chuck Summers	Since 1980, while raising her family, Marianna has been an artisan in her castle at the Colorado Renaissance Festival where she has won numerous awards including Best of Show. Prior endeavors include a stained glass design studio in downtown Denver and Boston, MA. In 1979, she was recognized as an outstanding entrepreneur by Colorado Business Magazine for her glass art and design. She even had a cheese shop and deli in Crested Butte, CO. in the early 70’s while taking art classes at Western State College.
Photo by Brad Odekirk / Summit Daily News	More recently in 2002, she became an exhibiting member of The Denver Metro Art Club. In their November 2004 exhibit her watercolor, The Flower Girl, won Best of Show and her painting titled Bunny Brenda was given 3rd place in the watercolor division. She also discovered The Art Students League in 2002, where she is currently taking classes from Rick Brogan and Dennis Pendleton.
Halali, Etosha National Park; Namibia, Africa copyright 2003 Civita Di Bagnoregio: Umbria, Italy copyright 2003	In February 2003, her acrylic painting titled Hayman Disaster, Clouds of Fire #4 was juried into the Inaugural Englewood Arts National Juried Art Show held at the Museum of Outdoor Arts. In April 2003, Marianna attended a workshop taught by Arlene Krogstadt at the La Romita School of Art in Terni, Italy. She learned the transparent watercolor pouring technique that was used to produce the painting titled Civita di Bagnoregio which was just exhibited in the 2005 Colorado Watercolor Society’s 50^th annual exhibition at the Colorado History Museum and Valle di San Martino in the 2005 CWS Botanic Gardens Exhibit. Her days were filled with exploring, sketching and painting in the small, enchanted hill towns of Umbria. She found the pouring process both challenging and exciting as it forced her to loosen up, to throw paint on the paper with abandon and to just “let it happen”!!!...and even more fun to do more in her studio.
San Oupa; Namibia, Africa copyright 2003	In September 2003, she was invited to join a 5 week photographic expedition into the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, Africa, where she fell in love with the sights, sounds and wildlife of a living moonscape. Her photographs and art are being shown at the Ducktrap Bay Trading Company Wildlife Gallery in Camden, ME. She is still processing the adventure and is finally attempting to capture the journey with paint. Her paintings and African photography were also exhibited in the River Blue Artists Gallery, Silverthorne, CO. November ‘03- May ’04. Painting travels in 2006 have taken her from the Mayan Coast in Mexico to the beautiful fishing village of Sesimbra, Portugal.
	Her artwork … and Marianna, will be at her gallery, Marianna M. Duford Fyne Art, this summer at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, a juried show open weekends, June 11^th through July 31^st. Marianna was named the Master Artisan for the 2005 show. Her greatest challenge in life has been raising her son and daughter. With them both lovingly kicked out of the nest she finds herself with the opportunity to pursue her first love, painting, and her true love…her patient and loving husband, Bill…and isn’t the pursuit half the fun?!