Retirement after teaching for more than 20 years (kindergarten/first-grade) has enabled Marjorie to resume her interest in watercolor painting.

Her life's journey has included living 3 years in Havana, one year in La Rochelle, France, plus shorter residencies in Guatemala and Mexico. She has traveled to Europe more than a dozen times and has also made numerous trips to western and eastern Canada. Marjorie has visited Arizona often and has studied various Native-American tribal designs. She incorporates these design concepts into her watercolors.

This background has fostered Marjorie's over-arching interest in vibrant colors, and she has applied this fascination to numerous art forms in the past: cake decorating (numerous awards), textiles, oils, and to her current concentration on watercolors.

Marjorie's subjects are principally architectural: bridges, churches, and other structures of historical interest. She does these in glowing, forceful, defining tints. Her work is also noteworthy for its exciting portrayal of rivers and the sky in all its changing modes.