Mary Blue
Mary received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 where she studied with Neil Welliver. Visiting critiques included, but not limited to, Bill Jacklin, Harmony Hammond and Red Grooms.
She also studied at the Vermont Studio, the Maryland Art Institute, and Ecole des Arts d’Avignon in France. Her work is exhibited widely in galleries along the Norfolk coast, in London and internationally. Her work has been shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize multiple times and in 2023was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Mary also designs immersive art experiences and is an artist educator whose workshops delight and inspire the young and young at heart. Most summers you can find her as a regular participant at Paint Out Norfolk, an en plein air competition.
She has travelled widely, is a playful adventurer with an insatiable curiosity about the universe that feeds her work as an artist.