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About the Artist

Since leaving the Boston area and moving to the Berkshires in 1995, Marguerite Bride has been able to focus her time and energy upon pursuing her childhood dream…to become a painter.

Her formal art training began in 1992 with a course of study at the Worcester Art Museum, accompanied by private art lessons … and hours of practice. After moving to Lenox in 1995, she attended the Interlaken School of Art, and enrolled in the Visual Arts program at Berkshire Community College.

In 1999, Ms. Bride joined Berkshire Dreams Gallery in Great Barrington. Since that time, Bride's art career has continued to grow and flourish. Her work now hangs in homes and public spaces  throughout the United States and in Europe and Japan.

Bride is a frequent exhibitor in art shows  and festivals throughout New England and nearby New York. In addition to gallery and show exhibits, Ms. Bride also accepts private commissions, with an emphasis on house portraits.

Most of Marguerite Bride's subjects can be found locally and regionally. She has spent the last couple of years capturing the beauty and serenity of all seasons of New England in her paintings. Other strong interests include the sights, textures and colors of Tuscany.

Besides creating her own art and commissioned pieces, Ms. Bride also provides publicity/marketing consultation and technical assistance to other artists and art groups interested in promoting their own art and art in their communities. She also  givies watercolor lessons in her studio at Art on No in Pittsfield.

Before joining the world of art-making full-time, Marguerite Bride was a software engineering manager with a degree in Computer Science and also a Registered Nurse.

 

Art Resume

 

Formal Art Education

1992-94 - Worcester Art Museum art classes
1991-93 - Private lessons with various artists
1995-96 - Interlaken School of Art (now IS-183) - watercolor classes
1996-99 - Berkshire Community College - Visual Arts program

Memberships
2009 - present - member of Art on No Consortium of artists at 311 North Street, Pittsfield.
2002-2009 - Sheffield Art League (now called Housatonic Valley Art League)  - member, formerly on Board of Directors, Newsletter Editor, Publicity and Membership
2005-present - Berkshire Art Association, current member, formerly on Board of Directors.

Recognitions

Art featured on the covers of Massachusetts Main Streets and Back Roads Spring of 2009 and Winter of 2010.

Pittsfield Gazette and Advocate - feature articles about painting the portrait of the Berkshire Athenaeum in public in the library furing May, 2009.

Journal of the Moffit Cancer Center - January 2009 issue - eight paintings were  selected to be the art featured on the cover and throughout the magazine.

The Artful Mind, September 2008 - Feature length article , Marguerite Bride, Watercolorist

Berkshire HomeStyle Magazine, This Month's Selection for June 2007

Berkshire Eagle article  by Felix Carroll, "She Paints What She Sees", in Berkshire's Week, January 26, 2006
Sheffield Art League Member Show 2005 - Third Prize for  "Stonington Harbor".
Two paintings selected for August 2005 "Selected Works" Silent Auction in conjunction with ArtShow Fine Art Street Galleries in Pittsfield, MA. Only 24 artists of all mediums out of about 180 were selected for this special fund-raising event.

Painting "Hebert Candy Mansion" was selected to be on the cover of their fall 2005 catalog and also have a page in their website Hebert Candies Website. See press release.

Painting "Housatonic in Lee" featured in article in the April 2004 issue of "Berkshire Home Style" Magazine.

December 2003 - Painting "Tyringham Wheel" on the cover of "Berkshire Home Style" Magazine.

Fall 2001 - Ms. Bride competed for and was awarded the commission for eight paintings of historic scenes which are now on permanent public display at the Shrewsbury headquarters of Central One Federal Credit Union in central Massachusetts.