Artist Spotlight: Ernie Marjoram - Selected Paintings

Ernie Marjoram, Laguna, Oil, 36 x 48"

Ernie Marjoram returns to TAG gallery with a selection of paintings that reflect his passion for life and its pleasures. Ernie enjoys the challenge of representational art, trying to capture the illusion of three-dimensional objects and real physical places on a flat canvas. Inspired by everyday environments, architectural monuments, natural landscapes and even the food we eat.

Ernie Marjoram, Manhattan, Oil, 36 x 48"

 Marjoram’s art is based on a solid foundation of perspective drawing, dramatic lighting and appropriate color. He often paints outdoors using a limited palette of white and the primary colors; red, yellow and blue. “Working on smaller paintings outdoors with a limited palette is excellent preparation for the larger paintings done in the studio with a full color palette under more controlled conditions”.

Ernie Marjoram, Via Delle Bombarde, Oil, 8 x 6"

Marjoram’s interest in urban landscape comes from his training in architecture. As a college student, he studied architecture in Florence, Italy for a full year and often created watercolor travel sketches of the sites he visited. In 2003, Marjoram was invited to exhibit his travel sketches in a group art show in Pasadena and when they quickly sold out, a deeper interest in fine art took root. Encouraged by the positive reaction to his artwork, Marjoram began exploring painting in oils and in 2005 held his first solo exhibition Europe, Asia and the US, followed in 2007 by a second solo exhibition Bell’ Italia at the Wilshire Ebell Art Salon.

Since then, Ernie has exhibited in the California Art Club Gold Medal exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, was invited to participate in the prestigious Torrey Pines Plein Air Invitational competition and won first place in an art competition at Ironstone Vineyards. Since 2009, Marjoram has exhibited annually at TAG and this year’s exhibition: Ernie Marjoram – Selected Paintings brings together mixture of subjects drawn from the artist's recent work.

Ernie Marjoram, Truffles, Oil, 12 x 12"

The exhibition runs until May 12.