About The Artist

In a critical review by the Chicago based critic and historian, Lori Waxman had this to say - Painting under the moniker "Maru", Marcia Shelly practices a vibrant broad form of genre painting that touches such time-honored, pleasure-seeking subjects as the great outdoors, floral still lifes, figurative portraits. Her style varies work to work, as is seeking out the most enjoyable approach: textured mountainscapes, flat luminous plains, jazzy likenesses, soft focused blooms, sketchy tourist pictures.