Marilyn Ebel Biography
Marilyn Ebel began as an artist in the medium of oil paint. In this she was mainly influenced by her art teachers, particularly Carl Hall Visiting Professor at Willamette University in Salem. She worked as a painter during most of the 1970's. Since most of the paintings have been given away to family and friends, what remains are the few you see here.
Her medium changed when she moved to Longview to take a job at Lower Columbia College where she met Carolyn Brookhart a printmaker who taught at the college. She showed Marilyn how to silkscreen prints and how to find new colors through the process of ipulling thin layers of different colored inks over each other.
As a printmaker she joined the Broadway Gallery where she exhibited and sold her prints and worked cöoperatively with the other artists to staff the Gallery. Marilyn’s screen printing came to an end in1985 when the MS she had lived with since the early 70s took a turn for the worse and became “progressive.”
Marilyn won first prize for a painting at Lane County Fair. The painting of boats and a veritable forest of masts in Newport Harbor was sold to an exhibit official. She won first prize for “Exploding Leaves ,” a print exhibited at Ocean Shores Art Show in 1993. It’s shown here in this exhibit.
Marilyn Ebel Artist
Personal Statement
My media at first was oil. I painted with an active brush. My
style was to paint from the elbow, not from the wrist on no Maybe this was me accommodating a developing discomfort with modern Saudi opinions were and all other hand was busy avenues quickly the growing restrictions in fine motor coordination due to my to where it might be undiagnosed MS.
Eventually oil painting gave way to screen printing which, using leaves and torn paper as stencils, I adapted my urge to create to a different and exciting medium. Screen printing through pulling layers of different colors over each other with successive stencil arrangements in color and pattern surprises.
Collecting the leaves for pressing in my dictionary or other heavy books took me out of the studio into the open air in search for interesting shapes in leaves thin enough and yet strong enough to fine manipulation was black-and-white photographs I me do it for my own
Technical Notes on My Prints
1. All prints are on Arches 88, a heavy screen printer’s paper of 100%cotton.
All the prints are matted in 100% cotton or acid-free color in my shop
2. If there is not enough whitespace below the print for the traditional numbering
and signature line-look for my signature inside the print. |
