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Marilynn Webb is known as a skilled printmaker and for her woodcuts, etchings, pastel studies, and paintings of remote South Island landscapes. She is also recognised as an important art educator. 

Webb trained as a specialist arts and crafts adviser for the Department of Education in 1957, along with Cliff Whiting and Paratene Matchitt, recruited in the same year. She worked in Auckland and Northland schools and for the Northern Māori Project. This 5-year experimental scheme (1954–59) had a significant influence in the development of contemporary Maori art.