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Abstract painting with a warm color palette, featuring a large yellow-orange circle on the left, surrounded by various shades of orange, red, yellow, and hints of purple and black, with textured brushstrokes and layered composition.

My Work

I paint to remember — and to reclaim.

My work is an ongoing conversation about my Caribbean heritage, a language of color and texture that allows me to honor where I come from while exploring who I am as an artist. Every piece I create is a bridge between memory and possibility, carrying echoes of the people, stories, rituals, and rhythms that shaped me. I am drawn to the spaces where strength and vulnerability meet, where our ancestors hold community, where beauty is born from resilience, and where overlooked or erased history can be transformed into something informative, relevant and alive.

My process is instinctive, primal, and steeped in music; it’s a dialogue between rhythm, material and emotion. I begin without a plan, surrendering to what I call “the pull,” a force that combines with the music to guide my hands before my mind catches up. Acrylic paints are my primary medium because of their fluidity and depth, they allow me to build, layer, conceal, and reveal. With tools like squeegees, brayers, and silicone scrapers, I drag and deposit pigment across the surface, creating unpredictable marks and captivating imperfections. These gestures become meditations, evidence of movement, risk, and release; making space for those who wish to come through.

Increasingly, my work explores transformation and reparation. I find discarded and forgotten materials and weave them into my paintings. Their histories, once overlooked, become part of a new story. This practice reflects a deeper belief: that what we cast aside – be they objects, people, or our true selves – can reappear, have relevance, and be reborn.

Ultimately, my art is an invitation. It asks viewers to look beyond the surface, to trust their eyes, to question their assumptions, to embrace discomfort, and to consider how we might collectively reimagine what is possible. Each painting is both a puzzle and a map; charting the terrain between the obvious and the perceived, the past and the future, between what was and what is yet to be.

A woman with long, curly braids smiling and looking at the camera, wearing a pink floral shirt, with a decorative mirror and a blurred background behind her.

Biography

Marie Guilloto-Stuppard is a self-taught visual artist whose work explores memory, identity, and transformation through a deeply personal lens shaped by her Caribbean heritage. Rooted in storytelling and cultural reflection, her practice examines the intersection of history, strength, and vulnerability, and how beauty can emerge from what is often overlooked or discarded.

Working primarily with acrylics, Marie creates richly layered, textured compositions that invite introspection and connection. Her intuitive process — guided by an instinctive “pull” rather than a predetermined plan — embraces experimentation, imperfection, and spontaneity. In her work, she frequently incorporates unconventional materials and transforms them into powerful visual narratives on memory, cultural history, and purpose.

Marie’s work challenges viewers to look beyond the surface, step out of their comfort zone, and embrace new ways of seeing themselves and their surroundings.