Marion Hall

Member since 2011

Marion Hall is a recognized watercolorist whose paintings feature seascapes, landscapes, and wildlife of Cape Ann Massachusetts and New England. Her work renders real subjects with an impressionist’s style using vivid color, light and shadow, reflection, and sufficient detail to reveal new insights into the world around her. Birds feeding, boats sailing, oceans glistening, flowers blooming, trees reaching, lighthouses shining, beaches beckoning, waves breaking, marshes glowing, fog lifting, and harbor vessels lying peacefully at their moorings are familiar themes in Marion’s paintings that stimulate one’s emotions and memories.

During 2023, Marion had a Solo Show at Bank Gloucester and a Solo Show at Santander Bank in Manchester. Concurrently, she had a Show at the Beauport Hotel. In December she had a Solo Show at Rockport Art Association and a Show at the Gloucester Book Store. She exhibits annually at the June Greenbelt Art in the Barn in Essex and at the November Trustees of Reservations Castle Hill Show. She participates in scheduled artist member and invitational exhibitions at the North Shore Arts Association, Rockport Art Association, New England Watercolor Society at the Boston Guild of Artists, St Botolph Club, Boston, the Manchester Historical Museum, Marblehead Festival of the Arts, and the Annisquam Arts and Crafts Show at Village Hall.

Marion has been a resident of Manchester by the Sea for more than 50 years. She graduated from Tufts University 1966 and Boston Bouve’ College at Northeastern University with degrees in Physical Therapy. She was commissioned in the US Navy. After graduation she was stationed at Chelsea Naval Hospital and worked with casualties from the Vietnam War. After her service she was Chief Physical Therapist at Beverly Hospital. Marion raised a family of three children, Connie, Lisa, and Rob (now of Gloucester), and concurrently ran her private practice and consulted for community health organizations and Cape Ann schools. Marion specialized in childhood development and senior care.

Upon her retirement from healthcare, Marion began her pursuit of watercolor painting. Studying, practicing, painting, and exhibiting soon became her new passion. She has been recognized and accepted as an Artist Member of the North Shore Arts Association, the Rockport Art Association and Museum, and the New England Watercolor Society. Marion has a Studio in Manchester. She has illustrated two books for children about the wildlife on Cape Ann, Let’s Go Animal Tracks in the Snow and Let’s Go, Time to Explore At the Shore. She volunteers as a Cape Ann Museum Docent.

Marion says, “Painting is a gift. You look at the natural world in a different way. You see new details. You see the way in which light dances from one surface to the next, around you, and around your subjects. I like to experiment with colors. Painting is a very fulfilling way to share what I see and feel.”

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