BIO & RESUME
Contemporary Impressionist Featuring Figures, Landscapes, Still Lives, and other Loves
BIO/RESUME
Award winning artist, Marjorie Hicks's canvases capture the play of light and the drama of shadow and color that fall on any and all of her subjects. She is also a popular teacher to artists with currently over 50,000 followers on Instagram. John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, Henry Potthast among others continue to inspire her works. Marjorie is grateful for the talented and supportive community of artists in Nashville, where she resides. She is equally at home painting commissioned portraits in studio or outdoor scenes in a style inspired by the Impressionists.
As much as she enjoys painting, Marjorie has a heart for teaching as well. Her students learn to lay a strong foundation for their paintings, focusing on values to capture the wonder of light. Students learn to simplify and fine tune their initial drawing to capture the essence and drama of their subject.
Marjorie always seeks to build the confidence of her students by urging them to paint often, and fearlessly!
Vincent Van Gogh said “If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter,’ then by all means paint!... and that voice will be silenced.”
She is also grateful for the opportunity to support non-profit organizations each year with gifts of her paintings.
AWARDS, JURIED AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Accepted into Oil Painters of America's 2025 National Juried Exhibition with "Finders Keepers"
- Awarded Signature Membership by Oil Painters of America, January 2025
- Awarded an Honorable Mention Award in OPA's 2024 Online Showcase
- Accepted into American Impressionist Society's 25th Annual National Juried Exhibition with "The Garden Club"
- Accepted into Oil Painters of America's 2024 Annual Exhibition & Convention with "Chinoiserie et Fleurs"
- Accepted into Oil Painters of America's 2023 Eastern Regional Exhibit with "Mountain Memories"
- Accepted into Oil Painters of America's 2023 National Exhibition, with "Southern Comfort"
- Accepted into American Impressionist Society’s 22nd National Juried Exhibition, 2021, with “Shade on the River”
- Accepted into American Impressionist Society’s 5th Annual Small Works Showcase, 2021, with “Unconditional Love”
- Earned American Impressionist Society’s Signature Status, Winter 2020
- Accepted into Oil Painters of America’s 2020 Eastern Regional Exhibition of Traditional Oils, with “ Unconditional Love”
- Accepted into American Impressionist Society's first on-line Exhibition 2020, with "A Study in White"
- Accepted into Oil Painters of America's First Virtual Salon Exhibition of Traditional Oils
- Accepted into the American Impressionist Society's 21st Annual National Juried Exhibition
- Honorable Mention, 2020 AIS Impressions Small Works Showcase, with “One More Time”
- Juried into 2020 AIS Impressions Small Works Showcase
- Juried into 2019 OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition with "Sunny Pup"
- Master Class Finalist, for the month of March, 2019
- Juried into the 3rd Annual AIS Impressions Small Works Showcase
- Award of Excellence, 2018 NOAPS BEST OF AMERICA NATIONAL Exhibition
- Boldbrush regram winner, Instagram, July 2018
- Accepted into 2018 American Impressionist Society 19th Annual National Juried Exhibition
- Juried into 2018 NOAPS BEST OF AMERICA NATIONAL Exhibition
- Juried into 2018 NOAPS Spring INTERNATIONAL ONLINE Exhibition
- Accepted into NOAPS BEST OF AMERICA Small Painting National Juried Exhibition, Spring 2018
- Juried into 2nd Annual AIS Impressions Small Works Showcase, Spring 2018
- Love The Lake, Love The Land Exhibition and Sale, A Chestnut Group partnership event, Co-Chair 2017
- Ongoing group exhibits, Beverly McNeil Gallery, since 2015
- Awarded FIRST PLACE in the Women Painters of the Southeast Online Exhibition, 2017
- Juried into Women Painters of the Southeast's online exhibit 2017
- American Impressionist Society: 2017 Juried Exhibition, Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
- Flowers and Elegant Objects show and sale, Charles Fine Arts, Gloucester, MA, May 2016
- OPA's 2016 Fall Signature & Associate Online Showcase, Honorable Mention Award for "Southern Pride"
- "Southern Pride", Accepted into the National Acrylic and Oil Painters Society's 2016 Fall International On-line Exhibition
- Tennessee Top Ten Competition Winner, fall of 2016, sponsored by Portrait Society of America
- Juried into Cape Ann Plein Air, Oct. 10-16, 2016
- "Southern Tradition"- 2nd Annual Sporting And Wildlife Show, Beverly McNeil Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama 9/15-10/31, 2016
- Juried into "Telluride Plein Air" Telluride, Colorado 6/28-7/4 2016
- Earned the distinction of "Signature Member", Women Painters of the Southeast, spring 2016
- Awarded SECOND PLACE in 2016 Women Painters of the Southeast Exhibition with her painting, "The Great, Presiding"
- Awarded the "Best Use of Light and Color Award" in the 2015 Fall National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society International Online Exhibition
- Juried into the 2015 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society International Online Exhibition
- Awarded the SECOND PLACE prize by Dawn Whitelaw, judge, in the 2015 Oil Painters of America Salon Show’s Wet Paint competition and sale
- Accepted into the Oil Painters of America 2015 juried Salon Show and Sale at Beverly McNeil Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama
- 2015 National Oil and Acrylic Painters of America’s Spring Online International Exhibition’s "Award of Excellence" recognition for her painting "Table for Two"
- Accepted into the 2015 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Spring Online International juried exhibition
- Nashville Association for Legal Services Fundraiser, 2013, 2014, 2015
- Women Painters of the Southeast 2015 juried exhibit, Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association
- 2014 Women Painters of the Southeast 3rd Annual Members' juried exhibit, Magnolia Art Gallery, Greensboro, GA
- Awarded 2nd place prize in the 2014 Women Painters of the Southeast 3rd Annual Member's Juried Exhibit, with "Ode To Richard MacDonald"
- Chestnut Group Exhibits and Sales, Nashville, TN since 2013
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Impressionist Society, Signature member since winter, 2020
Oil Painters of America, Associate member
Portrait Society of America, Patron member
The Chestnut Group/Friends of Radnor Lake Exhibition and Sale, Co-Chair, 2015 and 2017
The Chestnut Group, Board member 2014- 2017, New Member Co-Chair
The Chestnut Group, Advisory Board member, 2018-20
Artist/Beverly McNeil Gallery, Birmingham Alabama
Marjorie also supports the Cecilia Beaux Forum, a committee of the Portrait Society of America dedicated to women in the Arts.
