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Date Posted: 14:10:49 07/22/02 Mon
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> 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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