Marilynn Brandenburger has been painting and exhibiting professionally for more than twenty-five years. Her awards and recognition include government and foundation grants, appointments as Artist-in Residence in national and state parks, and signature status in the Colored Pencil Society of America.  Her work is in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S.  including the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Gainesville College, Glacier National Park, the Hollywood Museum of Art, Isle Royale National Park, and Tyee Asset Strategies of Seattle. Her work has been featured in national newspaper and magazine articles and in two books, The Best of Colored Pencil 5  and The Island Within Us,. Marilynn has also illustrated three books, including two in natural science, her primary interest.

Marilynn's images of nature come from 20 years of hiking, sketching and photographing in the national parks and other nature preserves all over the
U.S.  Currently her work takes two forms: medium- to large-scale landscape paintings and smaller, more intimate studies of nature¹s detail. She also paints still life, using objects from her personal collections or, most recently, objects in artists' studios.

Marilynn works primarily in watercolor, colored pencil and oil pastel, frequently combining the media to create works of richer colors and luminosity than can be achieved by one medium alone.  Her work is noted for its bold contrasts of light and shadow, created by her sophisticated use of design and composition.

A native of the Midwest, Marilynn has lived in the South for more than thirty years. She holds a Bachelors degree in anthropology from Tulane University and a Masters degree in art education from Florida Atlantic University, and she is a graduate of Harvard¹s Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education.

In addition to painting, Marilynn also teaches art at community art centers in Atlanta and other locations in the Southeast, including the Spruill Center for the Arts in Atlanta and the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina.  

Marilynn's work can be seen by appointment at her studio in Decatur, Georgia, at the Georgia Artist's Registry in the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, and on her website www.brandenburgerstudios.com.