Marissa Grondin

Visual Art – Calgary

Marissa Grondin is Canadian born but spent the majority of her childhood travelling the continents following her father’s career. At an early age she was inspired to paint the people and places she encountered, by translating her love of colour, line and texture in a 2D format. Her watercolours border the line between life drawing fused with imaginative colour schemes, focusing on highlighting the merge between the two seemingly opposite worlds of realism and fantasy. Grondin’s love and interest in colour has pushed her to create work that is not only a depiction of how she sees the world around her, but to utilize colour and imagery to directly affect the viewer in a positive light. Through her paintings, Grondin depicts memories and dreams, which allow her to recreate images as they appear in her recollection, often with flashes of bright colour, shapes that are less dense and objects that morph into one another. In memory, all things three-dimensional become fluid, much like paint itself.