For a ten-year period she studied for The Artist Börje Elwi Carlsson, born in Denmark, living in Sweden, Helsingborg. Börje is a famous Artist, who has been awarded with the Gold medal in many European countries. The famous one is "Love-sweet." In 1993 Marianne started studying Art at the Folk's High-School in Linkoping. Unfortunately the illness prevented her to contunue with her studies.

The last 5 years she has been teaching acrylics, watercolor and drawing, charcoal techniques in several afternoon courses. Her students and herself have had several public Art exhibitions - in Söderköping Museum, 1997 ( tree miles south from Norrköping) Sank Ragnhilds Gille. Over the years she prepared several solo shows.

Drawing and painting have always followed her life. More in some and less in other periods. She prefers to work in Acrylics, because of many advantages this medium offers (dryness, no chemicals, no smell). Her passion for the Watercolors is the freshness. Easy to have in hand. Just lovely colors. Charcoal drawings give her wonderful challenges of the color scheme in grey scale. Always in her bag.

Marianne also values the advantages of the online world where she actively participates. She has set up her own online gallery - Marianne's Gallery - displaying her artworks and took part in different competitions - successfully:

Let's name a few honours that really stand out. She has been selected as the:

• Golden Ace Site of the Week Winner;
• Artist of the Week Community Artist of the
  Week for the week of September 11th, 1998.
• Artist of the Week at the Pegasus Gallery