Meet
Mary
Exhibits, Workshops, Awards, and Bio
Painting
Galleries:
Florals I
Florals
II
Florals
III
Travels
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Read Article about Mary's art from Star Community Newspapers
2008 Juried Exhibits:
April 4
- April 24 Beginnings
- Genesis, Park Cities Presbyterian Church Arts Festival,
Dallas,
TX
Mar.30 -
April 27 Society of Watercolor Artists 27th Juried Art Exhibition,
Ft.Worth, Texas.
April 5
- April 30 Denton Poet's Assembly Exhibition, Emily Fowler
Library, Denton, Texas.
May 2 - June 27 Red River Valley National Juried Art Competition,
Vernon, Texas
July 24 - Aug.15 3rd Annual 125-Mile Visual Arts Exhibition, TWU,
Denton, Texas
Sept.1 - Sept.30 Invitational Exhibit, Ada Old Bank Gallery, Ada,
Oklahoma.
Reception,
Saturday, Sept. 7, 11-4.
Sept. 13 Oak
Point Art Society Fall Festival at prosperartsandmusicfestival.com
Workshops/ Watercolor
Classes
Monthly Workshops, Oak Point, Texas, Beginners and Intermediate Contact
Mary for Information
Awards
"My Garden," was the chosen painting to be displayed in the book. "My Garden" also won the third place award at the Red River Valley Museum Juried Art Show, Vernon, Texas. This painting was also accepted in the 40th Annual Southwest Watercolor Society's Juried Exhibition.
Published Artist in the National Juried "Best of America Watercolor Artists & Artisans" Vol.1, page 21, Kennedy Publishing Services, May, 2007.
"Picket
Fence"
Judge's Certificate of Merit
Red River Valley International Juried Art Exhibition, 2008
Vernon, Texas
Visual Arts of Texas 37th International l Exhibition, Denton, Texas.
"Need a Hat" won a material award at the Texas Visual Arts Association Citation 2004 juried show, Dallas, Texas.
2005 VAST Anual Juried Members Exhibition.
"Hibiscus"
won first place at
Southwest Watercolor Society, Dallas, Texas, awarding Mary "Artist of
the Month."
Mary grew up in Oklahoma,
and now lives in Texas. She always loved art, but it was not until her
children were grown, and she had finished her Ph.D. that she finally got
to do what she always wanted to do--study drawing and watercolor painting.
Mary says she paints the "colors of life" in her wide variety
of watercolor subjects - bright florals, cowboy hats, chickens-- as well
as commissioned Pet Portraits and Bridal Bouquets from photos.
She has studied watercolors with regional and nationally
known artists-- Zoltan Szabo, Ken Hosmer, Tom Lynch, Judi Betts, and Carol
Maddox at LaRomita in Terni, Italy.
Mary's paintings have won awards in juried shows in
Oklahoma and Texas, and her paintings are in international private, and
corporate collections, and has presented several Solo Invitational Exhibitions.She
is a published
Artist in the National Juried "Best of America Watercolor Artists
& Artisans" Vol.1, page 21, Kennedy Publishing Services, May,
2007.
Mary is the founder of the Oak Point Art Society and is
listed in the World Artist Directory of Accomplished Artists World Wide. She
is represented by the Old Bank Gallery, Ada, Oklahoma, and the Miller Fine
Art Gallery, in Salado, Texas.
Mary has been a Professor at Collin County Community College,
Frisco, Texas, in the Computer Science Department for seventeen years. Currently,
she teaches online computer classes part time for them. She is a member of
Visual Arts Society of Texas, Oak Point Art Society, Society of Watercolor
Artists, Inc., and the Southwest Watercolor Society. She teaches watercolor
classes in Oak Point, Texas.
Mary's art is represented by Miller Fine Art Gallery in Salado, Texas
Mary
is also a Distributor of the Watercolorboard™ for stretching watercolor
paper
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