Marcia DeFalco and the Artist’s Eye
Marcia DeFalco is an award-winning artist who brings to her new series, The Artist’s Eye, her unique talent as a mixed-media creator.
By using a carefully selected combination of media for each piece—prints, photography, watercolors, acrylics, colored pencil, pen and ink, collage, Chine collé, and assemblage—each one of her pieces is a unique and truly original artwork.
Inspired by the historic art of print-making—including etchings, woodcuts, linocuts, lithography, engraving, and screen printing or serigraphy— In her most recent work, Marcia has embarked on an exploration of different techniques using mixed media that combines photography and acrylic paint. She uses her own photography as the print medium.
Marcia uses her considerable skills as a painter to show the viewer what the eye of the camera cannot. The result is a work of art where it is nearly impossible to see where the photograph ends, and the painting begins. The results are stunning, one-of-a-kind images of life on Amelia Island.
Originally from the Midwest, Marcia recently retired to Amelia Island after living and working in the Washington, DC area for nearly 20 years. Even as a newcomer, she feels very much at home on Amelia Island and immediately connected to the island’s natural beauty.
Marcia’s love of nature—of its wonders, magic, serenity, and peacefulness—inspires her art and her artistic insights. She draws on themes and scenes from nature and combines them with a keen eye for detail, whimsy, and sometimes an Asian arts perspective to create works that are refreshingly original.
She began her formal training as an artist as an undergraduate and completed a degree in education with an art studio minor. She then pursued graduate studies and earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in addition to her Master of Business Administration.
Many of Marcia’s art pieces and notecards are currently available at the Plantation Artists’ Guild and Gallery both on site and on line. You can see additional framed pieces on their website at PAGGart.com