An extraordinary American artist from Pennsylvania, USA.

In Mary Ann Wakeley‘s own words…

…”My work is an expression of an affinity with color and line. I use them to depict a rich inner landscape, one that is colored by a feeling that occurs during the creative process. Within this landscape are stories that take place at any point in time–snapshots of moments new and perhaps relived, relationships that play out where the actors are represented by any number of marks. Sometimes the marks come together as figurative forms that intrigue me much the way someone I do not recognize appears in a dream. I view them as aspects of myself playing out in the drama of each piece. It is a form of self-communication as well as a channel for what needs to come through”.

“Each work is created intuitively without a preconceived idea. Often I have the sense of painting time itself and what is suspended in it. But this is just an idea after the fact, not something that I set out to depict intentionally. Titles allow me to play with words and language so as to add another dimension to the work”.

“I hope that my work elicits a thought provoking yet emotional response in the viewer, something that speaks of our connectedness which is so easy to forget in today’s world”.