Marsha Karle nature paintings at Sola in August & September





Marsha Karle will exhibit her nature and landscape paintings at Sola Cafe in Bozeman during August & September. An artist reception will be held Friday, August 5th 4:30pm. The show is a benefit for the Bozeman Public Library Foundation which will receive 20% of all fine art sales from this exhibit. For more information, visit
karleart.com.
Marsha Karle’s art is a reflection of her experiences growing up on
a California ranch and then spending her professional career in some of the
most magnificent wild landscapes in North America. As she has said, Most
artists attempts to explain the sources of our vision fall short of doing
justice to our work; if our words could express the passion we feel for
beauty, we wouldn¹t have to paint.
In 1981, Marsha began a career in the National Park Service,
working for two years in Denali National Park, Alaska. She was later
stationed in the NPS Regional Office in Denver and in Yellowstone, with
extended details in Washington D.C., Everglades National Park, Mount
Rushmore, Pearl Harbor, and Anchorage, Alaska. As a public affairs
specialist, she oversaw five presidential events, including the 50th
anniversaries of both Mount Rushmore and Pearl Harbor. She concluded her
career with eleven years as chief of public affairs in Yellowstone, where
she was intensely involved in the park¹s most historic modern stories, from
the fires of 1988 to volcano alarms to the recovery of wolves and grizzly
bears.
Marsha retired from the National Park Service in 2004 to become a
full-time artist. Her watercolors of landscapes, wildlife, and still lifes
have been featured in numerous regional shows and galleries. Marsha¹s
recent artwork has been juried into such prestigious international
competitions as Paint the Parks (2009, 2010), and the Birds in Art
competition at the Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin (2010).
Marsha and her husband, Paul Schullery, have collaborated as
illustrator and author on five books: Real Alaska (2001); The Rise (2006);
Royal Coachman (2007); If Fish Could Scream (2008); and This High, Wild
Country: A Celebration of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (2010),
which features more than 80 of Marsha’s watercolors, watercolor sketches,
and pencil drawings.
Marsha shares a website with her brother, California fine arts
photographer, Thomas Karle www.karleart.com

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