For 30 years Marion taught dance, health, fitness and yoga in the Montgomery County Public School System and spent her summers teaching in the county's Summer School for the Performing Arts. After retiring in 1997 Marion decided to begin taking painting classes something she had wanted to do for as long as she could remember. A friend told her of a wonderful watercolor artist, Martha Seigal,  who taught in her home. This began the first of many inspiring teachers  who influenced Marion's work over the past eight years. After of a move from Silver Spring to New Market Maryland  Marion enrolled in classes at the Delaplaine Arts Center and FCC in Frederick where she began studying with Mark Brockman, Irina Smulevich, Peter Whitting and Cynthia Bausch.

Although much of Marion's work has been inspired from nature especially flowers she also  paints the human figure and has painted with a group of  women  called "The Go Figures" who meet regularly at Hood College. Marion also paints with a group of women in Columbia, Maryland under the wisdom of artist Janet Schmeider. For the past three years she has embarked on a technique called called Process Arts created by Stewart Cubley who travels around the country giving workshops about the importance of  responding to the paint as well as what is spontaneously arising from within. This approach cultivates such freedom that Marion is painting more and more from this internal space. She recently started working with local artist Ed Ramsberg who teaches abstract art at the Delaplaine Arts Center. Marion works in watercolor, acrylic, oil and often uses collage to enhance her creations.