Marcie Wolf-Hubbard received her B.A. from the University of Maryland in Studio Art and studied Fine Art & Illustration at the Maryland Institute, College of Art.
She has received numerous awards and special recognition from arts organizations, and has extensive experience working with the school arts program. Ms. Wolf-Hubbard is a certified Teaching Artist Institute (TAI) artist. Her paintings have been shown in over 40 exhibitions during the last 25 years, and she has illustrated for magazines and books, as well as worked as a courtroom illustrator. Marcie is an instructor at Glen Echo Park and teaches art in her studio for children and adults at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. Marcie recently completed illustrations for her husband's children's book, The Shiny Shell, a children’s adventure book about a boy and a dolphin on a mission to save the oceans. The illustrations are drawings in charcoal, mounted on panel and painted in wax (encaustic.)
'My encaustic paintings can be rugged with the wood support and textural elements, but I retain my focus on the grace of the figure. I have loved re-immersing myself in figure drawing and combining drawing with wax painting adds to my excitement. The effect produced by applying wax to charcoal drawing is that of an image floating on vellum. The “back and forth” of additive collage imagery is married with encaustic’s mysterious depth and transparency. Drawing and carving into the wax with a tool and then applying pigment augments the sense of energy in the brushwork.'
About my nature paintings:
Outdoors, I look at the light, the colors, and focus on real beauty. I am inspired by the energy of brushwork, and richness of color and contrast of light in the paintings of John Alexander. I strive to retain the fresh and dynamic feel of the scene in my painting. I admire my former Maryland Institute, College of Art instructor, Philip Koch's paintings in the figurative abstractive style. I favor this style and relate to it in my painting: working from nature, but "abstracting its essence" to create art breathing with color and light.
