Marion Joy Langford
Born in country Victoria in 1959, I began painting in 2001 after shifting a long held belief that I couldn’t paint and I couldn’t draw. With a number of major changes happening in my life, I was seeking some time out and following one of those chance visits to an artist’s studio in the Blue Mountains, I noticed this particular artist was running week long workshops in landscape painting. The idea of a week away in the beautiful Blue Mountains painting struck a romantic chord within me and I was naïve enough to ask “if you needed to be able to paint?”. “Yes” most definitely was the answer however something had shifted within me and with a new motivation I began opening to the idea, the possibility, that maybe I could learn. Maybe I could attend some evening classes. Maybe I could make a few mistakes in the process and just have a go. And so I did. That was the beginning of my journey with painting.
After some workshops with Sarah Mumford, within a year I was off on the first of several week long retreats to the Blue Mountains, with artist, John Wilson. Since then other artists I have studied with include for landscape Warwick Fuller, contemporary with Lyn Hammond and Anne Bourne, and most recently developing my portrait skills with Nafisa Naomi. As a Life and Career Coach, I am familiar with the power of limiting beliefs and from my own personal experience know the freedom and liberation when you break through them.
My choice of subject is often landscapes, either places I have been or where I long to go. Something in the image is drawing me, often the light, and often to a place of peace and tranquillity, a sense of being home. Other times it may be an expression of a mood I have yet to identify within and yet my soul knows and finds its way to be expressed. Our family camping and bushwalking holidays take us to outback Australia for inspiration to places like Uluru, Kata Juta, the MacDonnell Ranges, the Flinders Ranges, to Darwin and the Northern Territory and within country Victoria and New South Wales. Our most recent visit has been to Western Australia and the Pilbara region. These are a few of my paintings. I hope you enjoy.
For commissions or further enquiries, please call me on 040 999 3090 or email marion@marionjoylangford.com.au. You can also visit my website at www.marionjoylangford.com.au.
My work is represented by ArtFocus Gallery and can also be viewed there.
