Marilyn Rose

Marilyn Rose, resides in Northern New Jersey and is a signature member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the Northeast Watercolor Society, the New Jersey Watercolor Society, and the Garden State Watercolor Society. Her paintings have been juried into and have won numerous awards in state, national and international exhibitions and are in private and corporate collections across the U.S. and Canada. She has been selected to participate in prestigious plein air competitions including Paint Annapolis, Wayne (PA) Plein Air, and PleinAir Easton and her work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine. Marilyn teaches at the various locations, including her home studio (both in-person and virtually) and The Art School at the Old Church in Demarest, NJ. She runs a very popular plein air workshop each summer at the Landgrove Inn in Vermont. Selected for artist residencies in NYC’s Bryant Park and Arad, Israel, she is often called upon to demonstrate for arts organizations.

Marilyn earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis as a Fred Conway Fine Arts Fellow and came to NYC to begin her career in  graphic design. After establishing herself as an art director in New York, she created her own graphic firm, Marilyn Rose Design, specializing in branding, logos, magazines and corporate brochures for clients throughout the New York Metropolitan area. After launching her three sons, she found time to reenter the world of fine arts and fell in love with watercolor. Her work is informed and inspired by her studies with such well-known watercolorists as Charles Reid, Mel Stabin, Jean Uhl Spicer, Antonio Masi, Paul Ching-Bor, and Tim Saternow.

While her paintings take the natural world around her as their subject matter, they document both an inner and outer journey. They are really about edges; the places where things meet: paint and paper, light and shadow, pigment and water, reality and abstraction. Marilyn’s work takes a traditional medium, and pushes its boundaries, with a boldness and exuberance, that she invites the viewer to share.