Nocturne Notes

Maria Marino

Summer Evening on Spa Creek, Annapolis
12 x 24” Plein Air Pastel © Maria Marino

Maria Marino brings the vivid colors of her day-time landscapes into the night with her pastel nocturnes. See more of her work (both day and night) in our Voices of Experience article. We’ve asked some of our favorite artists to show us examples of their night time paintings and to tell us a little bit about their processes in this series of Nocturne Notes.
Marino shared with us these two examples of her exuberant, expressive pastel nocturne paintings. She told us that her goal is in “catching the mystery of that particular time of evening”

Evening Star 12 x 9” Pastel © Maria Marino