Mary is a Peterborough-based artist. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1973 with a BA in Fine Art Studio. She has exhibited regularly in our region, and in Toronto, for the past 40 years.

In her own words: “I paint the flower because of the resonance I experience with it. I am both myself and the image simultaneously, so the painting becomes an extension of my experience. The flower is receptive by its very nature. It is erotic in its colour and form. It is at the same time vulnerable and powerful, and all about fertility. When I create a painting I greatly expand the scale to draw the viewer into the flower’s sensuality. These paintings focus on the relationship between the flower and the sunlight it seeks, those transitory moments when the light penetrates and illuminates, sometimes appearing to come from within.”