The Art of

Marion R. Anderson

Welcome to Alder Creek Studio where you can find just the right piece of art for your home or business and sign up for private or group classes in acrylics or watercolour.

Florals

Artist Statement

As a multidisciplinary artist, I combine art and nature in a wide spectrum of studio art. My textured works celebrate my farm background, a love of florals and my daily 5 km walk behind the studio in rural Wilmot township.

My world is not smooth, polished or unmarked. Likewise, my canvases feature created or actual surface textures describing nature's continuous change.

Marion R. Anderson

Marion R. Anderson

Artist Profile

Marion Anderson is an interdisciplinary artist whose textured works celebrate her rural background, her love of nature and summers at the cottage. Anderson explores the universal idea of creating from lived experience.

“My world in not smooth or polished. My canvases feature actual surface textures that I have created to convey nature’s continuous change. By using papers and cloth over acrylic mediums I can achieve tactile elements on the canvas. The striped tissue I use is recognizable from a high end Canadian retailer and is contrasted against old-world cheese cloth to suggest Canada’s varied economic structure. The paper version of the French fabric toile suggests one culture amongst many with the Canadian diaspora.”

Anderson earned a Master of Education degree from the University of Western Ontario. Anderson has combined her love of teaching adult art classes with her art making process in her New Dundee home. Alder Creek Studio has grown into a busy hub for both watercolour and acrylic students of all abilities. Highlights of her art career have been the sale of an entire collection of work to a Livestock Feed and Supply Company and her ongoing involvement with Paint Ontario. She is currently preparing for her second exhibition at Langdon Hall Country House, Cambridge.

Many walls of our home are now graced with Marion’s paintings of flowers, lighthouses and landscapes in various sizes.
We admire her use of different mediums and her exuberant use of color.
Each time I visit her studio I feel as though I have to find another wall!

Aletha and Denis Coleman

Honolulu, Hawaii

I have taken classes from Marion over the years - group and private. She is an experienced teacher with a wonderful balance of instruction and encouragement. I feel privileged to benefit from the breadth and depth of her artistic talent - a true gem.

Dr. Dorothy Bakker

Guelph, ON

We really enjoyed the workshop Marion Anderson gave our group September, 2019. The focus was on preparing a textured canvas using mixed media and then creating an abstract floral composition. This was an informative and fun way to spend two days! Every member left the workshop having learned new techniques, and with a dynamic painting!

Workshop Convenors, P. Edgerton and J. Hurren

The London Brush and Palette Club, London ON

Marion is a rare find in that she is not only a talented artist, but also a gifted teacher. She has the ability to convey her artistic vision in words that students of all levels can understand. She is patient and encouraging, helping each of us to develop our own skills and find our own vision.

Dr. Miriam Mann

Stratford, ON

From Barn Boards to Circuit Boards

Featured Series

This series of acrylic mixed media paintings combines computer parts with farm imagery to explore the concept of Waterloo Region’s changing landscape.
Once thought of as a Mennonite community the area has now become a world recognized tech hub.
Inspired by photographs of barn raisings found on glass slides, Anderson’s own rural history and the use of actual computer circuit boards, she asks the viewer to acknowledge the reality of our altered environment.

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