Marsha Garrison

"Wild at Heart"--Watercolor--$325 plus 6% tax and shipping

"Old Friends"--Watercolor--$45 plus 6% tax and shipping

Marsha Garrison has lived in Parke County for 32 years, but originally hailed from Baltimore, Maryland, and Bargersville. She graduated from Center Grove High School.

Her major influences were her elementary teacher Mrs. Ford and high school art teacher Beulah Glass and her sister. 

"My sister was an art teacher who later taught gifted children. She was also a potter, basketmaker, and quilter. She gave me the most encouragement I ever had.  As children, we would go visit our favorite aunt.  One day she said that we could do anything we wanted to do.  I asked to go to the Cincinnati Museum of Art," said Marsha.

Her preferred medium is watercolor, but she also does oil and pen and ink. 

She has taken instruction from Louise Hansen, Rob O'Dell, Henry Bell, Joe Trover, Joe Fettingis, and Bob Whitmore.  She also has attended classes at Aeromont School of Arts and Crafts at Gatlinburg.

She has show her work at the Wabash Valley Art Guild, Arts Illiana, and at the Parke County Fair as well as the Covered Bridge Art Gallery.  She has won many ribbons.