Artist’s Corner: Marusa Mason

Marusa was born in Cape Town in 1970. As a child, she spent her formative years sailing around the world with her family on a yacht built by her father. As a free thinker, from a creative non-conformist family she absorbed the cultures, colours and light from the countries she was fortunate to visit. This served as the catalyst for her love of art.  Marusa took lessons from outside the classroom as well as in them at the Michaelis School of fine arts at the University of Cape Town.  Marusa is a professional contemporary artist with a flair for ocean and underwater scenes. Her abstract art is impassioned by colour and she revels in a textured canvas. Her current subject matter, albeit sometimes hard to decipher, seldom strays from the human form, family, and the soul. She is also well known and sought after for her portraits. Her work has been bought by clients the world over and can be found in private collections in Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Most notably her underwater oil paintings have been on display since 1996 in the famous Lassen Gallery in San Francisco. She has also commissioned works for the […]