Marjorie Mason was born in New York City and grew up in Florida and Massachusetts; she now lives year round on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard. She graduated from the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and obtained her BFA at The Rhode Island School of Design. She has studied with Master Printmaker Kathy Carracio, as well as the artists John DiMestico and the late Lois Mailou Jones. In 1996, Marjorie attended the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, which, at the time, was under the direction of Lois Griffel. In 1998, she took a class with Don Stone on Monhegan Island in Maine.

“I have always known that I was a painter, but building a career as a painter of monotypes was not something I could have predicted. At the Rhode Island School of Design, I majored in Illustration, instead of painting, in order to expand my knowledge of fundamentals of design and to learn more about the business of being a professional artist. Both things have been extremely valuable, but my passion for oil paint and the freedom to play with it led me to monotypes. I saw a demonstration of the process two weeks before my graduation and it changed my life.”

While Marjorie’s monotypes and oils have been widely collected for many years, she is also gaining recognition as a Plein Air painter.

“I have greatly enjoyed taking the knowledge and experience of a lifetime of studio work outside with me when I paint. Plein Air painting is the ultimate challenge and also the most rewarding of painting experiences, with all of nature to decipher as it constantly unfolds in changing color and light. This close examination of our extraordinary Island landscape is nothing short of full immersion into beauty itself.”