Hibiscus oil painting 500mm x 400mm by Marie Theron

Soft Pink Hibiscus oil painting by Marie Theron

500mm x 400mm on deep box canvas

sides painted gray

Marie Theron (b. 1944)  trained as an Art Teacher at Pretoria Teacher's College ,  studied art  at UNISA and with private tutors. She has held solo exhibitions both locally and overseas, and has participated in exclusive group exhibitions. Investors in her oil and acrylic works range from foreign embassies, corporate offices, guesthouses, libraries, hospitals and international private collectors. Thanks to the Internet, her work has sold in Australia, Britain, Canada, Croatia, Ireland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and the USA . She was commissioned by the Ass of Arts Pretoria, the Croatian Embassy and Academia Cravatica in Zagreb to submit a painting "Sister Power" for "The Challenge of the Tie", a world-touring permanent exhibition which toured Pretoria, Johannesburg, Brussels, Prague and Brazilia in 2005 and further around the globe in 2006.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Protea Valley: 14/09/01-30/09/01
Budapest: 17/06/02-28/06/02
Lindy van Niekerk Gallery: 25-31 Aug 2002
Old Town House Museum: 15 April 2004
Sandton Civic Gallery: 20 Apr - 4 May 2004
Embassy of Croatia, Consular room: 5 May -5 Aug 2004
ART IN THE ATTIC, Simone's in Darling 28 Aug -24 Sept 2009
Cupcakes en Kaapse Kuns Silver Lakes Pretoria 11 Sept 2010
1-14 Aug 2013: Can You Hear the Drums with Tatyana Binovskaya and Mart Leeuwner at ART LOVERS 1932 , Long Street, Pretoria
19 September 2015: "FRESH" an exhibition of works Marie Theron and Yvette Beneke at Grotto Bay Estate.
A future exhibition is being planned for June 2016 in Houston, Texas..

PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS
2002 Budapest, Permanent collection of the South African Embassy, Budapest, Hungary
Collection of the President of Croatia
2004 Gallery Cravatica, Zagreb, Croatia, "Sister Power" by Marie Theron is part of the permanent exhibition of this gallery.