About her work, Honor says, "I try to reveal the work of God that we see in the world around us. The unfurling of a leaf, the structure of a stem, the majesty of a single fading flower are all such amazing and complicated creations. As wild places disappear, we are increasingly surrounded by landscapes and places that are manmade. How will we retain a sense of wonder, awe, mystery, or humility when everything that was created by something greater than us is gone? We truly take for granted the enormity of the miracles that surround us. My work celebrates those miracles."

Honor Marks grew up in Charleston, SC and remembers slogging through the marshes of the lowcountry as a child searching for rare wildflowers with her family. Through the years they photographed hundreds of wildflowers all over the South. Today, she continues the journey through her artwork.

Honor double majored in English and Fine Arts receiving her B.A. with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. After moving to Athens, Georgia, she painted for Habersham, a nationally renowned hand painted furniture company. A design position which allowed her to work with the Nature Company, Talbots, and The Plaza Hotel took her back to Charleston where, after years as a commercial artist, she devoted herself to oil painting full time.

Honor's first studio was with Charleston's School of the Building Arts as their artist in residence and resulted in the "South Carolina on Canvas" exhibit in Charleston's Old City Jail. She has coordinated five Piccolo Spoleto Festival exhibits, was awarded Best in Show at the 2003 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Outdoor Art Exhibit, received the 2005 Griffith Lowcountry Artist Award, and in 2006 an exhibit of her native and endangered species paintings was narrated by Rudy Mancke, host of television's Nature Scene.

Her work appears in private and corporate collections across the country and is available at The Audubon Gallery in Charleston, SC; Mary Pauline Gallery in Augusta, Ga; Trowbridge Gallery in Ojai, CA; and online at www.HonorMarks.com.