| Life as an artist has been rewarding for Marianne Caroselli. While most children were playing, Marianne was busy painting ceramics. She started her own business at the age of 10 and continued to work with ceramics over the following fifteen years. After high school, Marianne attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art and received her degree in Interior Design. She worked as a decorator for a short time before getting married and having a family. Over the years she kept up her ceramic business and later traded for an oil painting set, which is where she found her true love. She gave up the ceramics to devote her time to exclusively to painting oils. |
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| Puppy Kisses |
In 1972, Marianne and her family (four children) moved from New Jersey to the wide-open spaces of Texas. Without a promise for a job for her husband or knowing where they would live the adventure began. They chose the small hill country town of San Marcos in which to settle. At this time she began her career in oil painting using the many horses, cows, dogs, burros and other animals on their small ranch to use as models for her paintings. Marianne attended her first art show in Austin and sold fourteen paintings ranging in price from $5.00 to $20.00!
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| Celebration of Love |
With a lot of hard work and dedication over the years her efforts began to pay off. Marianne`s first BIG break came when Leanin Tree, a prestigious greeting card company, choose her work to be reproduced on greeting cards, posters, mugs and other miscellaneous items. Later a company based in New York commissioned her to produced paintings for prints. A calendar company subsequently chose her work for "Artist of America" and "Cowboy Artists" calendars. After learning the basics of sculpting from a fellow artist, Marianne began to sculpt in 1979. Later she attended juried classes at the Cowboy Artists of America Museum located in Kerrville, Texas.
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| Letter from Grandma |
Marianne now lives in a country club community where she plays golf and tennis when she`s not sculpting. Her new husband Edgar, an architect, designed their new home, which includes a spacious studio and workshop on two acres of land. As you look out the large window of the studio the deer wonder through the yard and have taken up residence there. Marianne`s four children and grandchildren all live close by and are still models along with her new neighbors and friends.
Marianne`s bronze sculptures range in size from tabletop to monuments. Her work is displayed in large corporate collections, as well as notable individuals including Burt Reynolds, Daniel Stern, Wayne Newton, Byron Nelson and Pat Summerall. Her work is represented in galleries throughout the United States. Marianne`s her studio is always open to visitors and she welcomes having friends and clients stop by.