Mary Powers-Holt
Beach Sun, 2021
Acrylic on aluminum panel mounted on a cradle and framed
13" x 13"

Artist Statement

This piece was painted on the beach in Cape May point while the sun was setting and I wanted to capture the colors as quickly as possible. I later finished it in the studio.
My paintings are influenced by nature and inspired by the abstract patterns found in the landscape against atmospheric color and scattered light in the sky. My work describes the solitary discovery of a place in time and the unconscious forms and meaning generated from the experience. An emotional undercurrent is vital to my imagery, and my use of paint is expressionistic within this framework. The landscape is a launching point for imagination and interpreting the experience through painting my form of meditation.

Artist Bio

Mary Powers-Holt was born in Philadelphia, PA and has lived in the Greater Philadelphia area most of her life. Her home and studio are on a historic farm in Chester County, PA where the landscape and farm buildings inform her work. She studied visual arts at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts and Art History at the University of Pennsylvania through the Academy and Penn's coordinated B.F.A./Certificate program. She was awarded the J. Henry Schiedt Traveling Scholarship in her fourth year at the PA Academy.
Mary Powers-Holt is a Cerulean Arts Collective Gallery member in Philadelphia and has exhibited her work in six solo shows since 2017. In 2023, she also exhibited her work in the group show "Crafting Nature" in the Inliquid Gallery in Philadelphia and in group shows at the DaVinci Art Alliance.

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