Marianne Gargour is a painter and freelance graphic designer. She currently lives and works in the Lakewood neighborhood of Dallas,Texas.

Marianne turned down a scholarship to Pratt Institute to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec where she recieved her B.A. in Humanities. She received a scholarship to study landscape painting and limestone sculpture in Provence, France with the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Marianne worked at the Phillips gallery in Washington D.C. where she was inspired by the works of Bonnard and Deibenkorn to pursue her painting further. She moved to New York City where she received an MFA in painting at Parsons School of Art and Design. During that time she worked as an assistant art professor in the Parsons undergraduate painting department.

Among other things she has been an art director for YMCA camping in Massachusetts, a teacher for the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland, California, and a mobile art consultant to public schools in the Bay Area. She also worked as a 3-D demo artist for the education division of Autodesk in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

When work opportunites brought her family to Dallas, Marianne worked to receive a M.S. in Graphic Design at Texas A & M University while doing an internship at Southern Methodist University in the marketing department. Since then she has worked as an art director at Tracy Locke Advertising agency and at Square One Inc.

Marianne is excited to have the opportunity to share her new body of work with you. She is currently focusing on landscapes, figurative work, and still life paintings. She recently took a voyage with her daughter where they explored majestic views and color in Vermont, Massachusettes, and Southern France.