Mari Marks Fleming was a Berkeley, California-based encaustic artist who exhibited nationally and internationally. She enjoyed the malleable, transparent qualities of beeswax and pigments in her artwork for three decades until her untimely death from cancer in 2017.

Her nature-inspired paintings are included in public, corporate, and private collections, among them the Richmond Memorial Civic Center; the CA State Public Health Building; the Encaustic Art Institute, Alza Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, the Cerulean Tower Tokyo Hotel, and the Hilton Hotel in Sapporo, Japan. Marks has exhibited widely throughout the United States. Her recent solo exhibitions include I space in Chicago, and in the Bay Area, Robert Allen Fine Art, the Graduate Theological Union, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, and the Vessel Gallery in Oakland.

The primary recent texts of Encaustic art have all included her work: Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, (Mattera, 2001); Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, (Woolf, 2010),  Encaustic Art, The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax (Rankin, 2010), and Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century (Rooney and Lee, 2016). More work can be found at http://bawalp.org/mari-marks, the Bay Area Women Artists Legacy Project.