Marjorie Perrin has been painting and teaching in the Richmond, Virginia area since 1985. She graduated with honors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1984 and received awards for landscape painting in oil and figurative work in watercolor. She has been awarded two fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has also studied at the Art Students League of New York, New York; The Frudakis Academy of Sculpture, Philadelphia, PA; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA. Since 2005 she has studied with Portrait Artist Cedric Egeli and his wife Joanette in Edgewater, Maryland and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Her work has been shown at the The Artworks Gallery, Richmond. Virginia; The McBride Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School; The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA; The Ivy Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; Amos Eno Gallery, New York, New York; The Pandion Gallery, Fishers Island, New York. The Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA; The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. and The Art Students League Of New York, New York. Additional Galleries in Richmond where her work has been exhibited include: The Cramer Center Gallery, The Eric Schindler Gallery, The Christian Brydon Gallery, The Lodan Gallery, The Florence Gallery, The Richmond Center, and The Bank of America Gallery. Her works are included in numerous private and corporate collections in Richmond including: The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, C.S.X. Corporation, E.R. Carpenter Corp., The Medical College of Virginia, Mutual Assurance and Media General.

Marjorie has been teaching painting and drawing at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School in Richmond since 1989. She has also taught at The Visual Arts Center of Richmond; John Tyler Community College and the Torres School of Sculpture. She lives just outside of Richmond, Virginia with her husband Parke Smith and her two sons Zane and Nate.