MARCIA MOLNAR

Prescott, Arizona

Marcia Molnar’s life is one of contrasts. In summer, she camps and paints en plein air on the rim of Grand Canyon. At other times, she’s in New York City, wandering the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, and Central Park. “Having the opportunity to spend time in two different places during the year has encouraged me to try new things,” she says.

Marcia lives in Prescott, Arizona with her artist husband George Molnar. Together they explore and paint Arizona ranch life as well as the Grand Canyon. Marcia’s formative years were spent in her father’s gallery in Carmel, California. She moved on to do commissioned portraiture for many years, and then landscape. Marcia was awarded the Patron’s Award at the 2018 “Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West” show at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona and won Best of Show at the 2016 Grand Canyon Celebration of Art. Her works are shown at Mountain Trails Gallery in Sedona, Arizona and the Broadmoor Galleries in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

On a warm day in October, I found myself standing in a small herd of Bighorn sheep on the rim of Grand Canyon. In the quiet munching and shuffling of hooves I was hopelessly enchanted.

The canyon is a magical, spiritual place, and somehow, I am compelled to paint the intangible poetry of earth, wind, wild things, and light. This painting is so much about what I love, not just the canyon and sheep but movement and repetition of light, shape, and color—the obvious and subtle.

I gave myself permission and freedom to do exactly what I wanted to do and let it ride. Every time I thought I was finished, I was not. The painting kept wanting a little more intensity, a little more depth. It has finally stopped talking to me, so here’s to the next big adventure!

See you on the rim!

Sacred Convocation | 45x45, oil