It is easy to tell you about the materials used in these paintings. It is easy to say that these are landscape or figurative paintings.
Painting is a spiritual pursuit.
It is a gesture that gives form to inner feelings that are not otherwise expressible. The result is a form of painting both conceptual and abstract. Indeed, these paintings are not strict representations - their shapes and color attest to that. Mary's paintings are produced in the studio from drawings done on location, often extracting many different versions of the same image from these drawings. She is currently living in Orange County, New York, which is distinguished by the rolling hills and dairy and onion farms.