Whether realistic or abstract, Marianne Giguère’s work reflects her impressions of life around her. The beauty of a weathered building, the pounding of the surf, city streets and farms may all find their way into paintings and prints.
Marianne attended college in Washington, DC, graduating with a degree in fine arts. She studied painting but was largely self-taught in printmaking, taking a workshop class here and there. Jack Perlmutter, teacher of painting and graphics at the Corcoran
School of art, became a mentor in both painting and printmaking techniques after she began to study with him privately.
A silkscreen artist for many years, she was introduced to computers in 1985 while living in Geneva, Switzerland, and decided the computer should be suitable for printmaking techniques. Giguère has adapted her work to the computer to the extent that her ink jet prints are often mistaken for silkscreens.
She has lived in the Washington DC area since her college days, working as a graphic artist, teaching painting and printmaking and volunteering with local art organizations. Married to a “Mainer”, she spent many a summer vacation on the coast of Maine, eventually purchasing a summer home in Boothbay Harbor. She and her husband now live there summers and much of her work reflects the Maine coast.
She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Montgomery County (MD) Arts Council, and was one of the founders and first director of the former Graphics Workshop at Glen Echho Park, MD. She has been involved in desktop publishing, and the design of newsletters, display ads, brochures, etc. She is a member of the Art League, Rockville Art League, Washington Apple Pi, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Senior Artists Alliance and Strathmore Hall Arts Center. She was listed in Strathmore’s Who’s Who, 2001-2002 Edition, and featured in Washington Apple Pi Journal, January/February 2002 edition.
Her work has won many awards, locally and nationally, and is included in collections in the United States, Canada and Europe. It is usually on exhibit at the Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, No. Bethesda, MD and the Boothbay Region Art Foundation Gallery in Boothbay Harbor, ME. Visitors are welcome, by appointment, to browse through paintings and prints at her studio in Rockville, MD or her summer studio in Boothbay Harbor, ME.