Artist Statement

Lucille Ball once had a quote I love, “I’m not funny. What I am is brave.” I feel the same way about painting. I like to take risks, to paint in multiple mediums and in various sizes. Originally I took up painting to put up on my apartment walls. I had worked briefly in a contemporary art museum and loved being surrounded by expressive color and form and hoped I could learn to paint like that. So I started taking classes. (This was decades ago.) And I can’t stop. That lead to some exhibitions, private and group shows, meeting my husband at a workshop in Maine, and seeing the world in more colors than I knew existed.

Now my house looks like a British art gallery. Goal achieved. But I also got hooked and continue learning, painting, and trying to be brave with a paintbrush, palette knife, collage piece or, well you get it.

Thank you for finding this Website, and thank you to those of you who have purchased my work. I put the new work up when I think it’s finished so please come back sometime.

Mary