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"Wide Awake"

Artist Bio

Marion Vinot was born in Paris, France. She attended the University of Texas, U.S.A., where she studied literature, art history, and film. She moved to Mexico City with her parents in 1968 and in 1969 moved to Austin, Texas on her own. She married the painter and sculptor, David L. Price, who encouraged her imagination and creativity. In 1976 she moved to New York City and remained there for 10 years - painting all through those years. In 1986 she moved to St. Barthelemy, French West Indies and had a son that same year. In 1989 she had a daughter.

Throughout the years Marion Vinot's work has been shown at both public and private shows.

According to Marion Vinot "art is a room with a view. Painting is the meeting of the forms and colors born of the tastes and humors of the moment. This exteriorisation of an emotional knowledge locked in the soul is a means of liberating static images and creating motion. It is for a moment to make of the past an abstraction and to place it in the present."

"It is also a quest for self-knowledge which is the door to higher knowledge. We say it is also by the view of the heart that we can accede to it. I think also that by this view we could attain a mutual comprehension. The quest for knowledge is an interior voyage and also a voyage through or across others, which each among us lives in our own manner to bring peace in our heart and peace in the world. Painting is for me a way of acceding to the comprehension of that which is: the Present and its magic."