Marji Thompson
“My work evolves through a series of decisions that happen in the moment. I am interested in how color and form interact to create a visual experience that suggests depth, emotion, and a sense of intuition. I strive for balance—between control and chance, stillness and motion—so that each painting becomes its own world, open to the viewer’s interpretation.”
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Crossing Light, 2026 -
Glade, 2026
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Holding Time, 2026
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Open Shore, 2026
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Revealed, 2026
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Shift, 2026
Marjorie Thompson is a contemporary painter whose work navigates color, surface, and emotional resonance through layered abstraction. Living and working in Maryland, her practice reflects a deep engagement with materiality and gesture, creating paintings that are at once tactile, intuitive, and visually immersive.
Thompson’s process is rooted in exploration, as she applies and removes layers of paint to build rich, complex surfaces. Her work emphasizes the interplay between spontaneity and deliberation—each mark, edge, and transition contributes to a dynamic sense of space that invites contemplation. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena, memory, music, and her own lived experiences, her paintings evoke rhythm, harmony, and a sense of lyrical movement without direct representation.
Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and alternative spaces, and is held in private collections across the United States.