Mary received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 where she studied with Neil Welliver, Bill Jacklin, Harmony Hammond and Red Grooms. She also studied at the Vermont Studio, the Maryland Art Institute, and Ecole des Arts d’Avignon France. Her work is exhibited widely in galleries in East Anglia, including Gallery East in Woodbridge and Abbott & Holder in London and in the USA at the Eisenhauer Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard. She exhibited at the Royal Academy SummerExhibition in 2023 and for the Holt Festival Sir John Hurt Art Prize several years running. Mary is also an artist educator who generously shares her visual empathy. She has travelled widely, is a playful adventurer with an insatiable curiosity about the universe that feeds her work as an artist.Artist Statement"Mary’s paintings reflect upon the impermanence of life and the forces of nature.She paints brilliant light and deep shadow, the far horizon and the passing of time. She isdrawn to the delicate, the broken, and the most fleeting. These are timeless and possess apowerful resonance. Her work echoes themes from TS Eliots Four Quartets delving intothemes of time, purpose, fragility and meaning. At the crossroads of nature and man,beauty remains.In 2009, she attended a symposium on the Ethics of Water where the research, politicaldrivers, and economic tendrils of the content changed how she create art. Her paintings arebegun on site in the landscape and finished in the studio from memory adding layers ofcolours, weaving in poetry, and textures. Standing along the edge of the water her aim withthe work is to expand the viewer’s field of vision appealing to the senses, sound, smell, therush of air as waves crash along the edge reminding us there are multiple ways to see ourworld. She seeks to envelop us enhancing our experiences by tapping into our humanityconnecting us to ancient traditions, rights of passage or epic journeys. .She moved to East Anglia in 2013 from East Coast USA and was drawn to the weather,tides, and moons that cradle the coastline. She searches for the power inside the landscapethat is timeless and evokes light through the play of colour she inherited from her Americansensibility from David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter and Georgia O’Keeffe as itinterplays with the misty air and British landscape painters like David Tress, NormanAckroyd, Cedric Morris, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable and Maggie Hambling.The changing tides, the migratory birds, the cycles of the moon all connect her to the coastin a way that affirms life. The coast is her sanctuary where she nestles into the sand duneswatching the tide. Her paintings seek to address a sense of power, peace and anundercurrent of deep joy, all wrapped within the fragile nature of life. The universal laws ofnature are embedded into her work revealing a richness and harmony that extends beyondwhat is visible.Her work explores water-related challenges, gender water related impact highlighting theuniversality of water without borders or lines on a map. Water unites us all. Inspired by theBritish coastal tidelands she has painted the Norfolk and Suffolk coast, Pembrokeshire andAnglesey in Wales, The Isles of Scilly in Cornwall and her work encourages viewers to seeand feel part of the landscape enveloping them in the tide or the rush of wind. Her workcherishes the natural world ensuring its special qualities are both valued and looked after.Inspiring others to steward the natural world, she translates gathered data such as onsitesketches, the tide table, and scientific research into paintings that engage an audience withemotional resonance. Her work raises awareness of human-induced issues and naturalprocesses connected to ecosystems and environment including: identification of marine floraand fauna; short-term environmental change and focuses on the temporal nature of life andlearning to embrace it fully."