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Marishka is an award winning artist with fond memories of painting at a young age and receiving art instruction from her Mom, also an accomplished artist. Marishka later graduated with honors from the former York Academy of Arts in York, PA.
The artist's poetic landscape paintings are filled with luminous colors which celebrate nature's majestic beauty and grandeur. They transport the viewer to breathtaking peaceful vistas that uplift the spirit. She employs a highly distinctive and unique process of layering paint over a specially treated textured ground and often adds metallic overlays to heighten their reflective quality.
She brings to her paintings the joyous energy she draws from her passion for the outdoors. Hiking and exploring in the mountains and forests across the western states are among the sources of inspiration for her contemporary paintings.
Her paintings reveal the awe-inspiring, expansive diversity of nature originating from her many different experiences throughout the U.S-from the romantic lush gardens, forests and lily ponds from living in Pennsylvania, to the beauty of the desert and endless days of sunshine from her former home in Arizona, to a high country aspen grove in the West where her spirit now soars. She currently lives in Zephyr Cove at Lake Tahoe, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest near Puget Sound.
Most recently Marishka earned the distinction as one of the "Artists to Watch" by Kristin Stefek-Brashares, Editor -in-Chief of the prominent magazine Art Business News. Her work is in the collections of many individuals and corporations internationally, and have been widely exhibited in numerous one-person, invitational and juried exhibitions. She is represented by several fine art galleries.
Marishka is the brushname of Marie (Cieniewicz) Schweitzer. The artist gladly accepts commissions and is comfortable working on small scale works to room size murals.