Marie Hines Cowan is a figurative oil painter; mythology informs her work, which depicts the marriage of colloquial and classical culture. Color, light and passion are the fuel and the result is bold and colorful, painterly, but also graphic and illustrative. Her paintings are narrative, often life size, they are representational, but not constrained by realism, with colors that push further than the average eye sees.

Hines Cowan jumped feet first into the exhibition world in 1979 and has been exhibiting in the tri-state area and Europe ever since. In the last year she has ramped up her exhibition schedule and exhibited in six venues. During the next twelve months she will be featured in at least five more venues including two solo exhibits in Manhattan.

Though Hines Cowan has been busy in the studio, she is also leader in arts organizations in the tri-state area. She is the Exhibition Committee Chair as well as the Vice President for the National Association of Women Artists, Inc. and is also a member of Pen and Brush as well as others.

As well as displaying work in galleries Hines Cowan has had her paintings in NYU's literary journal Icarus, various online media, most recently in an article on Huffington Post online site. Margarita Aguilar wrote an essay on her work in 2004.

Knowing very early what her life's work was to be Hines Cowan was apprenticed to an artist at the age of twelve. She began her studies of Greek mythology even earlier. She continued her studies in the figure at the Fashion Institute of Technology and classical literature and art history at New York University.