Marianne Muggeridge specialised in life drawing and painting at Elam School of Fine Art, where she gained her BFA in 1973. In 2000 Marianne won the NZ Portrait Gallery’s inaugural National Portrait Competition, and in 2002 won the prestigious Adam/NZ Portrait Competition. Her work is exhibited widely and is held in numerous private and public collections throughout New Zealand. Marianne Muggeridge is a full-time working artist whose creative impetus is to always work from life in a variety of media.