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For
the past two decades Iris Lee Marcus has been busy covering homes,
restaurants,
and businesses with outstanding decorative and faux finish treatments.
Her work can be found extensively in her native New England, but it also
appears across the continent from |
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A professional painter since 1982, Iris paid for her education at
the Massachusetts College of Art by working as a contractor for fine
residential painting. Thus, when she switched entirely to decorative
work, she was able to use her expert practical knowledge of paint (as well
as of ladders and staging) to reinforce the artistic techniques for which
she has become famous.
Iris sees her task as transformation. She likes to work with the way light hits a room, playing with colors and visual textures to make the space come alive. She knows where to place accents and when an area needs to be quiet, supporting other elements in the room. “For me,” she says, “a room is like a 3-D canvas, waiting to be filled with movement, life, and balance.” |
| Iris loves her career. Using her high energy, physical
strength, and artistic focus, Iris finds herself one day doing an organic
wall-finish that suggests antiquity, the next day painting faux marble on
18 columns in a large formal space, and a few days after that starting an
intricate mural in a Chinoiserie style. Color remains Iris's inspiration. As an expert in color theory, she regularly does design consulting specifically relating to color. She enjoys working with clients and designers and helping them bring their ideas to fruition. Iris lives with her partner, two dogs, and two cats in a jewel-like
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