Marlow Shami

Marlow Shami is a Techspressionist digital artist and writer. Her artwork is rooted within the forest surrounding her childhood home. Her creative output begins in collaboration with Nature.

In 2001 Shami obtained her Master of Science in Applied Ecopsychology – Integrated Ecology. Her studies refined her focus as an artist and teacher and continued to evolve with the intelligence and healing touch of Nature. The relationship is vital, revealing how the quality of human relationship with Nature defines life quality individually and collectively.

Nature became her mentor in the quest to understand and collaborate with Nature based on self-evidence-derived insights. Her work investigates how the quality of human relationships with the natural world impacts life individually and collectively. 

Communicating with Nature via the senses informs her work on multiple levels. The senses are a thread-like intelligence attracting the artist’s attention in the art-making process and are everywhere. She follows their pull, collaborating to reveal something fresh, evoking interest and possibly insight. Smells, colors, sounds, and emotions elicited while working are all infused with this energy. Like words used to build a story, sensory attractions create Shami’s experience as an artist. She listens, waits, trusts, and leaps; over and over again. This process happens within her studio and outdoors in the fields and forests. The art-making process involves tiny, rich steps that need attention and care as she translates her collaboration into artwork.

Marlow Shami is an award-winning videographer/producer and has been nominated for a New England Emmy. Shami exhibits nationally; venues include Salmagundi Club, New York City, NY; Barret Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY; Manhattan Arts International, NY, The Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY; the Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT; Verum Ultimum Gallery, OR. and can be found in private collections.