Marilyn Rogers Pounder Online Portfolio Marilyn Rogers Pounder 113 Mail Route Road Sinking Spring, PA, 19608-9013 610.927.0599 Email: BasicallyBeads07@aol.com

Marilyn has always been involved with arts and crafts. She says she inherited genes for this from both of her parents.

Pounder loves the outdoors and this is reflected in her artwork. Pounder also enjoys creating things with her hands, a trait inherited from her father’s woodworking ability and her grandmother’s skill of needlework.

Since the 1980’s she has spent a great deal of time photographing wildflowers, giving her a rich source of subjects for her drawings and colored pencil paintings.

In 1988 Pounder began studying calligraphy, which provided her an avenue to other creative outlets such as rock painting and rubber-stamping.

Although she studied business in college, she took art courses for electives whenever she could and has continued to take classes and workshops in drawing, painting, design, calligraphy, photography, and many aspects of jewelry design and construction. She started making jewelry using semi-precious stone and glass beads 10 years ago, and added polymer clay components to the mix shortly after that. In addition to making and selling jewelry, she teaches classes in polymer clay.

“Making jewelry calls on many of my resources, including color and design skills, and provides instant, or nearly instant, gratification.”

She has been juried in Polymer Clay Jewelry by the Reading-Berks chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.

Pounder also likes to sketch in pen and ink and colored pencil, creating images of animals and flowers.  

She is a member of Berks Arts Council and Berks Art Alliance. Pounder received a Purchase Award at the 2000 Berks Art Alliance Juried Show.

Her most popular works are the stone animals she paints. Pounder takes smooth, river-tumbled stones and paints them to look like various animals such as foxes, cats and raccoons.

Her work can be found at: The GoggleWorks, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading; The Museum Shop, Reading Public Museum, Reading; The Woman's Exchange, West Reading; Le Petit Artist, Mt. Penn; Blue Mountain Herbal, Hamburg.