Marcia’s fascination with fairies started with a firsthand encounter. She was 5 years old and playing in her mother’s garden, when she was startled by a tiny fairy with a broken wing standing silently at her feet. Although that was her only personal encounter with a fairy, it stayed in her heart and inspired her in many ways throughout her life.  But she certainly did not imagine that she would end up making fairies one day.  

She used her college education and experience at the Art Center College of Design to create a career in mixed media nature drawings.  She exhibited her work in solo shows, zoos and galleries around the world.  Upon returning to the Pacific NW, she began to paint original art on clay.  Playfully sculpting with the clay one day she was amazed to see the tiny face of her first fairy looking back at her in the palm of her hand.  Within six months she was making fairies full time.

In 1994, Marcia debuted her original four and a half inch tall Garden Fairies at the prestigious Bellevue Museum Show in Bellevue, WA, where she promptly sold out.  In the past decade her fairies have grown into their own very distinctive style. Her one-of-a-kind figures begin with a wire armature, and hand-sculpted head and hands made from designer doll clay. They are dressed with vintage hand-dyed flowers and trims.  Finding whimsey in the details she often embellishes her work with images of tiny molded antiques.

Marcia’s drive to create comes from her joy in the discovery, the process, the expression of herself. Once she has finished a fairy, it’s the fairy’s job to bring joy and happiness to those who see her, and maybe even make them laugh. She loves to watch people get “caught by surprise” when they look at her whimsical creations.

Her work can be found at the Verksted Gallery (in Poulsbo, Washington), Crackerjacks Gallery (Wallingford-Seattle, Washington), Rosalie Whyel Art Doll

Museum (Bellevue, Washington), and in art shows and permanent collections around the world. Aside from her precious fairies, expect to find fairy beds, Fairy Catchers, fairy chairs, garden bells, Baby Buds, fairy pins, Garden Flurries, Puddlemaids (mermaids that play in the garden puddles) and most recently Dragon's Eggs.

If you asked Marcia what her life’s motto is, she might say: “The journey (life) is a very crooked path, and the doorway to my imagination is a great big door.” Indeed!