Marcia Williams

I have always drawn people and that led me to studying human anatomy in college and a career as a medical illustrator. I specialized in heart valve surgery illustration which requires very specific tight renderings. However I also longed to paint outside the lines and not have to make the arteries red and the veins blue. So I am now a fine artist working to convey images with fewer details and more overall freedom. I still paint people, but find more and more that I am going outside with my oil paints in my backpack to follow an arroyo or a mountain stream and learn about the bones of the land I live in. The City of Albuquerque and the State of New Mexico have acquired my paintings for their Art in Public Places program and my work is in private collections nationwide.