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Author: Mary [ Edit | View ]
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Date Posted: 03:48:19 03/17/01 Sat

Largely self-taught, Mary has always been an artist. She sold her first oil
painting to Gulf & Western Industries in Stamford, Connecticut at the age
of 13. When not otherwise detained, you would most likely find her with
sketch book or camera on the sands of Shady and Calf Pasture Beaches,
creating studies of the native wildlife, flora, and shifting tidal waters of Long
Island Sound. In 1986, she was finally able to pursue her dream and
lifetime ambition, when she packed up her canvas, watercolors, pens, oils,
and camera, and moved to Florida’s West Coast. It was time to pursue art
as a career.
Fording the ocean between the shores of artistic pursuit or food on the
table is often one of life’s most daunting voyages. Mary bridged that ocean
by working for a local art gallery in Venice, Florida. During working hours,
she gained an invaluable understanding of the business of art. But more
important, she was able to continue refining her innate artistic gift by
spending hours on the Florida coasts, photographing and sketching the
local flora, wildlife, shore birds, wading birds, beaches and ocean. Time
well spent. Her beach scenes and landscapes personify inner strength,
beauty and sensitivity evoked from nature and shared with the viewer. Her
wildlife and floral paintings invite you to reach out and experience the
delicate softness of a feather, the ragged, prickly edge of a leaf, the
turbulent undertow of an ocean wave, and the tranquility of a sea at rest.
Initially Mary worked in watercolor, depicting coastal and floral scenes for
a growing list of collectors throughout the United States. Awed and
inspired by the possibility of capturing the multifaceted expression of the
natural world - wildlife, birds, florals, seascapes and landscapes - through
different mediums, it was inevitable that Mary’s repertoire would grow to
include paintings in oils, alkyds, and acrylics. Much of her original artwork
are plein air studies.
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