Mary Blue

Mary Blue continues in the tradition of landscape painting. The impermanence of the tidal landscape shapes the East Anglian coastline where she lives. She depicts her environment with assured familiarity, imagining human activity in the scenarios she depicts. Farmers and fisherman are never shown on the shoreline in her compositions, but they are present in her handwritten thoughts buried within the painted folds of each marshland expanse.

Her paint is applied in generous smears and splashes over expertly drawn, softer veils of underpainting. The clarity of the coastal air, its eddies and squalls feel part of her vision, described in vigorous brush strokes.