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Honor Marks

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Lured home to Charleston in 1997 by a design job, she now paints full-time, devoting each brush stroke to the aesthetic beauty and metaphorical intricacies that she finds within her subjects.

Honor Marks received the Griffith Lowcountry Artist's Award in 2005 and won Best in Show at the 2003 Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibit. Photographs and images courtesy of Honor Marks

<em>Venus Flytrap</em>, 24" x 36", oil on canvas

<em>Pitcher Plant Flower</em>, 8" x 8", oil on canvas

<em>Downy Woodpecker</em>, 30" x 40", oil on canvas

<em>Hyacinth</em>, 30" x 40", oil on canvas

The artist in her natural element.

<em>Whelk</em>, 36" x 36", oil on canvas

<em>Poison Ivy</em>, 18" x 24", oil on canvas

<em>Mountain Sweet Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia jonesii), Federal Endangered Species</em>, 24" x 18", oil on canvas

<em>Downy Woodpecker</em>, 30" x 40", oil on canvas, detail

The artist has a collection of stingray egg sacs from her childhood.

<em>Foam Flower</em>, 22" x 28", oil on canvas

<em>Columbine</em>, 12" x 30", oil on canvas, detail

Marks' home studio is laden with treasures she has collected over the years.

<em>Blue Crab Claw</em>, 5" x 7", oil on canvas (detail)

Marks finds inspiration in nature and conservation.

Her King Street Studio with <em>Poison Ivy</em>, <em>Whelk</em>, and <em>Luna Moth (Actias luna)</em>