Marilyn Scherfen

Red Finch, my consulting business located in Highlands, specializes in design and product development, process improvement, change management and leadership development. I am also the maker of fine handmade custom dress shirts. I made my last custom shirt in February 2020. I would not make another for the balance of the year; the other businesses would feel the pain as well.

I started doodling on my phone after a series of life changing experiences. It was very relaxing and when the pandemic hit, the images not only brought a smile to my face, but it seemed to lift the spirits of others in my orbit. It was then I needed to take some of the advice I had given my clients throughout the years.

I reviewed my skill sets and began to reimagine myself, to recreate who I was for all the years past and take this new gift to the next level.

I found there was popularity to my spontaneous scratchy scribbles and people wanted to be part of it. This was not my intended purpose at the onset.  

Here I am, 1 year later, my work being accepted into galleries across the country.......... and I am not looking back.

I was an avid reader of MAD magazine as a child and always envied those who had the gift to express their imagination on paper. Mort Druker, Bill Charmatz, Vargas, Peter Max, Picasso, Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Marc Jacobs, Richard Haines, and Al Kooper are some of my influencers.

I attended FDU metro on a Division 1 Basketball Scholarship, Cybick School Of Clothes Design, NYC, Fashion Institute of Technology and Villanova University

I have no formal art training and that’s what makes it FUN!  Enjoy the visual experience!