Bio
Maro Lorimer grew up in Bellport, a waterfront village on the south shore of eastern Long Island, New York. Her father, a nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, studied painting with Gertrude Quastler and sold many of his watercolors of local scenes. Influenced by her father’s enthusiasm for Quastler’s approach to art, Maro started sketching and painting at a young age. After graduating magna cum laude from Brown University, she moved to Colorado where she wrote for magazines and hosted a variety of radio programs. She studied watercolor painting in the 1990s with Denver artist Rita Derjue. Acceptance into juried state-wide exhibits led to her membership in the Colorado Watercolor Society.
After moving to Florida in 1999, Maro studied collage techniques with Judith Nadler and painting, in ongoing studio sessions, with Sarasota artist Douglas H Teller, Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, George Washington University. Her paintings have won awards in Colorado and Florida. They are in private collections in Canada, Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida and Mississippi. In recent years she has had solo exhibitions at The Studio at Gulf and Pine, in Anna Maria, the Palmetto Art Center and, at the invitation of the Sarasota Orchestra, in their Harmony Gallery at Holley Hall.
Maro currently is represented by The Studio at Gulf and Pine in Anna Maria, Florida, and by Gretchen LeClezio at the Palmetto Art Center in Palmetto, Florida.