Growing up in beautiful Maryland farmland, Mary naturally drew inspiration from her surroundings. Spending time riding her horse through the striking abundance of the landscape instilled in her a strong sense of attachment and belonging. This inspired her to share her experience through artistic expression. Demonstrating a natural ability and interest from an early age her work began drawing many awards and recognition. Mary went onto formal training at The Maryland Institute and College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Her fine arts education continued with acclaimed landscape artists David Buckley Good, and John Brandon Sills. In 1995, Mary began her art business as a professional artist and master craftsman painting murals, Trompe l’oeil, and faux finishes for residential and commercial clients throughout the Baltimore Washington area. Her extensive practice and training with both dimensionality of color and texture enriches the experience of her landscape paintings as she specialized in large landscape murals. Her work has won many awards and been featured in Modern Impressionist Magazine, Western Art Collector Magazine, Maryland Farm and Harvest on MPTV, The Talbot Spy, Attraction Magazine, Voyage Baltimore Magazine, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Chesapeake Home and Living, The Tidewater Times, HGTV, WJZ–Channel 13, the Baltimore Sun newspaper and many more. While Mary works full-time painting in Plein air as well as studio paintings including commissions and portraits she also teaches fine art and painting at The Mitchell School of Fine Art [Baltimore]. Mary was recently juried into and invited to Olmsted Plein Air Invitational 2022, 2023,2024 as well as Barh County Plein air 2022 and now Invitational 2023 winning the Peoples Choice award 2022. Juried into the prestigious 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2924 Plein Air Easton Competition Mary was awarded 2nd place in 2021 from the judge Daniel H Weiss, president and CEO of the MET. Mary was juried into the Waterfowl Festival in 2020 through 2024. Her art is represented in several Maryland galleries including Trippe Gallery, Oriet’s Fine Art, Bozzuto and Greene Art Gallery, Warm Springs Gallery, Highlandtown Gallery and the Capital Artist Collective in Washington D.C and the Charleston Artist Collective in Charleston South Carolina. Along with Serena and Lilly. Mary lives in Baltimore with her husband, Jeff, and two boys—Noah and Callaway. They spend weekends and summers at their Tilghman Island home and is a juried member of The Working Artists Forum and member of Mid Atlantic Painters Association and Maryland Federation of Art.