ABOUT MARIE

Born in Sweden, her grandparents were famous circus artists and her father is Adelaide based sculptor, Ted Jönsson. Marie emigrated to Australia with her family in 1972, and embarked on a highly successful career 'diversion' as an international model. Picking up on peripatetic life of her forebears she was to enjoy success as Miss Summer Spain 1981, South Australia Model of the Year 1982 and National Model of the Year 1984. However her rich artistic heritage soon exerted its primacy and she began painting while pregnant with her son.

Bringing immediate zest and life to the genre, Marie developed a unique painting approach wherein figures and objects are rendered in relief, giving the works a wonderful human and tactile quality. Marie brings to her work a great sense of humour and keen observation of life, always presenting a positive and joyful experience. Her work is collected widely throughout Australia and internationally. Japan has proved to be particularly appreciative and supportive market for Marie.

Today Marie lives and works in a rural environment on a wheat and sheep grazing farm north of Adelaide. In an ideal environment she enjoys a wonderful family life with her husband, son and daughter - highly conductive to her growth and development as one of Australia's most important and original naive artists.

"NAIVE VIEW" Blog by Marie

41. Collecting Cackleberries and Thank you Balaklava
(continuing blog from Tree Change to Sea Change , see story below) There are other things we will miss very much and appreciate about living in
Posted on September 1, 2010
40. Tree Change for a Sea Change
This painting is one I painted early on in my career (which sold in America) which was inspired by our new life on the farm,
Posted on August 26, 2010
39. Our Skyshow
We first started going to the sky show when our son was about 10 months old in 1988 and that is the inspiration for this
Posted on August 18, 2010
38. Little Birdy Floyd
In this painting “Spring at last” is a sweet little bird named Floyd, a cockatiel whom we shared our life’s with for several years after
Posted on August 14, 2010