Marli Thibodeau is an emerging artist who was born in Marlboro, NY. Her introduction to art emerged from a combination of boredom and freedom - creating a spaciousness in which to explore drawing, painting and photography. This liberty has fueled a lifelong pull to artistic expression. As a teenager, she painted legendary murals on bedroom walls. Studying painting and commercial art in High School, she credits her early teachers for cultivating her love of art.
Along the way she has studied movement as an art form; spending a decade blending hard and soft movement in the dojo. Marli is currently a conscious dance practitioner and teacher of www.pathofazul.com
She returned to visual arts in 2015, studying photography with Karen Divine and conceiving the Being Set Free project, a global collaboration around a central theme. (https://www.karendivinephotography.com/marlis-story-being-set-free/)
She began painting again in 2018, and in 2019 she began studying with Steven Aimone, focusing on her emerging body of work.
Thibodeau finds that movement reveals our inner state, a reflection of our interior world both in painting and dance. Thibodeau says: " I am continuously responding to what is here in the moment- to the instinctual connection of what is rising on the inside and how it is expressing in relation to what is on the canvas, creating an ever expanded sense of self "
Her paintings do not reference recognizable form and the lack of clear references are key elements in her work
The works are composed of opaque and transparent layers representing the ongoing dialog between painter and painting.
By questioning what is here now, present within, she creates intense personal moments on the canvas.
Her work contains themes of exploration, movement, and non-objective composition
The study of light + movement
Color as a language of internal and visual expression
Thibodeau lives and works in Rockland Maine
