Artist Profile for MaryOilPortraitArtist Durham
MaryOilPortraitArtist Full Time Professional
Biography
I am a Durham based art historian turned representational painter. Originally from Colorado, I received an Art History Degree from St Andrews before going on to School of the Visual Arts in NYC. Working in oil paint, I strive to represent light and texture in a way that imagines others complexly. While I enjoy portraits above all, I find subjects which interest me in many diverse and unexpected places. Most of all, I'm drawn to moments where the light is exciting and beautiful, and where the people are likewise complex. I love color, and the subtle variations of color in lived experience that lenses inadequately capture. The moments I enjoy creating the most are the illusions that art and oil paint specifically allow. The little lies of color and shape that at the same time feel so real. That reality is just a game of light that exists for you in every moment, and that there is so much truth outside of those boundaries.
Skills
Picture/Painting
- Oil
- Human & Animal Portrait
- Human Figures
- Pet Portraits
- Myth & Fantasy
- Single Portrait
- Multiple Portrait
- Realism
General
- Will work from a photo
- Only Ships within the UK
- Ships 'Artwork for Sale' within 4 Days
- Prices from £400 to £6000
