Mary Blue received her Master of Fine Art in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 where she studied with renowned landscape painter, Neil Welliver. Visiting artist critiques such as Bill Jacklin, Harmony Hammond and Red Grooms were often in the studios. Additionally, she studied at the Vermont Studio, the Maryland Art Institute, and Ecole des Arts d’Avignon France. Her work is exhibited widely in galleries along the Norfolk coast, in London, and abroad. She exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 and also is regularly shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize.  Mary is an artist educator whose workshops delight and inspire the young and young at heart. Most summers you can find her sketching in her favourite dune at Wells Next the Sea. Her work is represented by Abbott & Holder, Gallery East and with Contemporary & Country in Norfolk and other regional East Anglian galleries and in the USA. She has travelled widely, is a playful adventurer with an insatiable curiosity about the universe that feeds her work as an artist.