Marjorie Thompson
My paintings explore imagined landscapes that exist between abstraction and representation. Inspired by the forests, meadows, mountains, and coastal shores of the Pacific Northwest, the work reflects moments of light, shadow, and quiet movement found in nature. Through layered color and texture, I create spaces that invite the viewer to pause and step into the scene, where near and distant elements unfold slowly. These paintings are less about depicting a specific place and more about evoking a sense of presence and possibility—those moments in the landscape that feel both familiar and just beyond reach.
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Crossing Light, 2026 -
Glade, 2026
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Holding Time, 2026
My paintings explore imagined landscapes that exist between abstraction and representation. Inspired by the forests, meadows, mountains, and coastal shores of the Pacific Northwest, the work reflects moments of light, shadow, and quiet movement found in nature. Through layered color and texture, I create spaces that invite the viewer to pause and step into the scene, where near and distant elements unfold slowly. These paintings are less about depicting a specific place and more about evoking a sense of presence and possibility—those moments in the landscape that feel both familiar and just beyond reach.
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.