Marcy Lansman

121 N. Churton St. Hillsborough, NC 27278

In 2003, I made a miraculous discovery: I love to paint. Since then, my life has been consumed with that activity.

I like to get up close to the things I paint. I usually begin by photographing them with a digital camera. I paint from photographs, striving to capture the vitality and light of the original scene. Perhaps because I love to garden, I particularly enjoy painting flowers.

As for process, I do much of my painting very early in the morning. I have always been an extreme morning person, waking up at what most people would call the middle of the night. Before I began to paint, this was a nuisance. Now early morning is the most satisfying part of my day.

My discovery of painting was all the more miraculous because so much of my earlier life was taken up with words. I taught cognitive psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then spent several years working on a memoir about my father.

Marcy Lansman

Snapdragons

Lotus

Two Callas

Blue Hibiscus

Mother Daughter

Costa Rica