Francine Marchese is a teacher and a painter. She is inspired by simplicity, the energy of young children, the scent of oil paints, books in print, and traveling. Francine has identified as an artist from a young age. She still uses the painting easel that her parents bought her when she was ten-years-old. She currently resides in Bolton Hill, Baltimore, where the architecture and narrow streets provide her with a familiar, old-world, city feeling. She studied Renaissance Art in Florence,… more