Marianne A. Kinzer
Painter and photographer
An Artist’s Use of Photography
As a painter I very much enjoy sketching in nature preserves. I also take photos with a small digital camera of the scene I draw or paint. I like to compare my artistic interpretation in watercolor or pencil with the view through the lens of my Kodak camera.
In search of the original landscape of Illinois, I found Wolf Road Prairie. I like to work there throughout the year. Wolf Road Prairie offers a special atmosphere, an extraordinary intensity of life. Working in the prairie or wetland I feel a great joy of being alive and having the opportunity to observe this undisturbed environment.
Art is free and does not exist to meet economic interests. Art is simply beautiful. In places like Wolf Road prairie nature rests in itself and is not bent to meet our material needs. Art and nature meet here.
Marianne A. Kinzer
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