About the Artist

Born in Dairen, Manchria in 1938 to Russian parents, Marina was raised in Shanghai, China until she was eleven years old. A world cruise took her family to Rio de Janeiro in 1949, and then to San Francisco in 1950. From 1955 to 1958 she attended the University of California at Berkeley on a scholarship, studying art and art history. The following year she spent touring through Europe. Marriage and the births of five children took her away from painting for a ten-year period, after which she returned to her work on a full-time basis.

In 1975, Marina and her husband and children left their home in Marshall, California and sailed to Hawai'i. Marina lived and painted on her boat for nineteen years, either moored just outside Lahaina, Maui or sailing the South Pacific as far as the Marquesas, Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Solomon's, Micronesia, and Guam, painting the people and places wherever she went.

Having returned to California, Marina continues her work painting landscapes, seascapes, interiors, still lifes, and figurative work.