About

Marina Lippincott moves between two creative languages: code and art.

By day, she is a full stack developer who genuinely loves the structure, logic, and problem-solving of building with code. But art gives her something different. Where programming asks for precision and systems, drawing and painting give her a place for intuition, emotion, and observation.

That balance has become central to her work.

Marina is especially drawn to portraits, where the smallest shift around the eyes, mouth, or tilt of the head can completely change the feeling of a face. She often works in charcoal and graphite on cotton rag paper, beginning with broad tonal relationships and slowly refining the subtle details that allow a likeness to emerge.

Her work is quiet by design. Without color or elaborate backgrounds, there is little to distract from the person on the page. Light, shadow, expression, and gesture are allowed to carry the entire image.

Portraiture remains at the heart of her practice, but Marina is equally interested in figure painting, where posture, movement, anatomy, and atmosphere can tell a story beyond the face alone. Whether she is working from a close portrait or the full human figure, she is fascinated by the way a body can communicate something before a single word is spoken.

For Marina, coding and art are not opposites. Both begin with an empty space. Both are built through hundreds of small decisions. And both require the patience to keep looking until something finally feels right.

Her work is shown at [M and N Art](https://mandnart.com/) in Venice, Florida, where she also teaches. Studio visits are available by appointment.