Marjorie Lindsay is a contemporary landscape painter based in San Antonio, Texas. Her atmospheric oil paintings explore the emotional and psychological resonance of land, sky, and water through layered luminous surfaces and meditative mark making.
Her work emerges from a lifelong engagement with landscape and the emotional and sensory experience of being present within it. Raised in the countryside near Lake Michigan, Lindsay spent her childhood immersed in woods, farmland, and shoreline, collecting memories and small fragments of nature. This early impulse to gather and preserve experience continues today through photography, plein air painting, and studio practice. Nature became both a place of discovery and heightened awareness—an experience that continues to shape her work.
Initially drawn to pattern, color, shape, light, and atmosphere witnessed in nature, her paintings seek to capture the emotional and psychological experience of being in a landscape at a particular time and place. The expansive Texas sky is a recurring motif, evoking both dreaming and reflection on the sensory power of the natural world.
Her process moves from observation and experience in the landscape to studio work that evolves slowly through layered color, revision, and sustained attention. The resulting artwork, a rich surface of accumulated marks is a meditative response to a lived experience—often an ephemeral moment in time.
Through sustained investigations such as the Spurs Ranch Road series, Lindsay returns again and again to the same environment, observing subtle shifts in light, color, weather, and time. These repeated encounters allow the work to move beyond documentation toward something more universal — a distilled sense of mood, memory, and presence.
The result is a body of work that invites viewers into quiet spaces of reflection and slow looking, where color, light, and luminosity carry the emotional weight of the landscape.
Her paintings invite stillness. They offer viewers a place to pause, to slow down, and to reconnect with the quiet authority and emotional resonance of the natural world. Whether rooted in the skies of Texas, the deserts of the American West, or coastal environments shaped by wind and water, the work reflects an ongoing search for clarity, calm, and presence through sustained engagement with place.
MARJORIE LINDSAY
EDUCATION
1994BFA Two-Dimensional Art, Weber State University
1996 MFA Drawing and Painting, University of Utah
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Felder Gallery, Spurs Ranch Road, San Antonio, Texas, lecture given
2017 Central Texas, Waco Civic Theatre, Waco, TX
2011 Recent Work, Javanook, San Antonio, TX
1999 Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Center Gallery, McMurry University, Abilene, TX, lecture given
1998 Life Series, Ira M. Taylor Memorial Art Gallery, Hardin Simmons University, Abilene, TX
1997 November Series, Egyptian Center, Ogden, UT
1996 Surface, Image, Self, M.F.A. Solo Exhibition, Alvin Gittens Gallery, University of Utah
1994 B.F.A.Exhibition, Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Ogden, UT
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Chaos and Harmony, Exhibizone, Online, International
2025 Small Wonders, Austin Art & Frame, Austin, Texas
2025 Landscapes 2025, Fusion Art, Online
2017 Spectacular Skies, Annmarie Sculpture Gardens & Art Center, Dowell, MD
2014 What Those Who Teach Can Do, Art Institute of SA, San Antonio, TX
2010 Refresh: An Exhibition of Art and Design by DOVA Alumni, WSU Shaw Gallery, Ogden, UT
2010 All School Exhibition 2010, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
1999 1999 National Works on Paper Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler Art Museum, Tyler, TX
1998 Counterpoint, The 30th Annual National Exhibit, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX
1998 Big Country Art Association Annual Juried Competition, Grace Cultural Center, Abilene, TX
1997 December Series, Solo Painter, Myra Powell Art Gallery, Ogden, UT
1996 & On /Of Paper, Green Hall Gallery, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC
1996 Two Person Exhibit, Phantom Gallery, Ogden, UT
1995 Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox, Alvin Gittens Gallery, University of Utah,Salt Lake City, UT
1994 Weber State University Student Show, Collette Art Building, Ogden, UT, Award Given
1994 Intercollegiate Student Art Show, Alvin Gittens Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1993 Utah Women’s Artist’s Exhibition, Myra Powell Gallery, Ogden, UT
1993 Weber State University Student Show, Collette Art Building, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2026 Ciel et Terre (Heaven and Earth), Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX
2026 Spring Group Show, Paseo de Arte at the Pointe, San Antonio, TX
2026 Members Gallery at SAALM, January-March 2026, San Antonio Art League and Museum, SA. TX
2025 San Antonio ISD Foundation Pop Up show, Alumni and Educators, Key Ideas, San Antonio, TX
2024 SAAEA Artist Exhibition, Bluestar Gallery Space, San Antonio, TX
2022 SAAEA Artist Exhibition, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2012 What Those Who Teach Can Do, Art Institute of San Antonio, SA, TX
2010 Artists Who Teach, SmartArt Project Space, San Antonio, TX
1999 Faculty Exhibition, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
1999 Faculty Exhibition, McMurry University, Abilene, TX
1998 Group Show, Western Texas College, Snyder, TX
1998 Seat Yourself, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
1998 Faculty Exhibition, Ira M. Taylor Memorial Art Gallery, Hardin Simmons University, Abilene, TX
1998 Recent Acquisitions, Collette Art Building, WSU, Ogden, UT
1998 Focus Abilene, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
1997 Group Show, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX
1997 The Object of My Affection, Group Show, Collette Art Building, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
1997 Group Show, Phantom Gallery, Ogden, UT
1996 Biannual Faculty Exhibition, Collette Art Building, Weber State University, Ogden UT
1996 In an Abstract Language, Group Show, Dolores Chase Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
1996 Brigham Young University & University of Utah Graduate Students Group Show, Alvin Gittens, Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024 Donorschoose.org, Burbank HS
2023. Innovative Grant, San Antonio ISD Foundation
2011 StepUp for Arts Education Grant
2011 ArtPace semester program partner at Fox Tech High School
2010 Donors.choose.org grant, matched by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2010 San Antonio Arts Education Initiative Grant
1996 Utah Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
1996 Finalist for the Ethel Armstrong Rolapp Award, University of Utah
1994 Most Outstanding Art Department Graduate, Weber State University
1994 Dean’s Purchase Award, Weber State University Student Show
1994 Elizabeth Brown Dee Scholarship, (full tuition)
1993 Honorable Mention Award, Weber State University Student Show, Juror: Lynda Benglis
COLLECTIONS
Felder Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Salt Lake County Art in Public Places, Salt Lake County Government Center, UT
SM and Portia Moore, Abilene, TX
Abilene Christian University Art Gallery Permanent Collection, TX
Oracle Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT
Delta Airlines, Crown Room Collection, Salt Lake City International Airport, UT
Dolores Chase Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Browning Center Permanent Collection, Weber State University, UT
Weber State University Art Gallery Permanent Collection, UT