A conversation with Marianne Cooper
by Dr. Desiree Cremer
Listen to my conversation with Marianne Cooper on my podcast, What Stirs. She is an architect and a watercolor artist who travels between Hawai’i and Sweden. Cooper shared her creative process and journey.
Marianne Cooper grew up in Sweden; she recalls sitting around the fire with every family member doing something with their hands. Her mother was knitting, her dad creating or inventing something. And she and her sisters are doing art. Exposed to art from a young age, Cooper shares that growing up in Sweden was like “growing up in a Waldorf school, with lots of arts and crafts.”
When asked, what would she say to her younger self? She reflects, regarding architecture, “the perfectionist seems to come in the way, sometimes.” And the advice for her younger self is “to relax and just do it, because in architecture you have deadlines.”
According to Cooper, when she is painting, “something takes over,” and before she knows two hours have passed, that is when she realizes that she was “somewhere else.” Cooper responds that going somewhere else is when she paints the best.
At the end of the podcast, Cooper shares her delicious seafood, a cooked Dungeness crab with dill mustard sauce. Go to the podcast and listen.
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