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Using gold and sterling silver and usually stones, both faceted and cabachons, I design wearable pieces of art. I was in retail stores from 1980 until 2017 making and selling my hand fabricated jewelry in Cedarburg.I’m thrilled to see one of my pieces on someone and happy to know it is being worn and appreciated!

I fancy myself a creative force with a maker's soul and a mind for impact. I love wood and creating meaningful pieces that inspire.

As I stand and study the empty canvas in front of me, I envision the beauty of what it can become as the many colors ooze over the canvas, the fruits & flowers dancing and changing partners as the music plays.

I pressed the shutter on my first camera. Click. I was 8. Time passes quickly. My goal in retirement was to use photography as a step toward creating multi-media works of art, "Creations by Ginny M - Telling a Story". Now, saving and savoring beauty through photographed images, capturing that moment in time, has become note card "desk art". The journey continues.

Lover of symbolism, universal and personal.

I am drawn to paintings by their use of color and this is how I want to approach my art. I appreciate the luminescence and sometimes the ethereal quality when I use cold wax & oil. The painting is built in layers. Similar to the process of encaustic painting, but without the heat. I manipulate the wax using various palette knives, squeegees, brayers, pottery tools, dental scrapers and rubber brushes. I like to create textured surfaces and scape to reveal the layers underneath.

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Painting is my way of capturing the natural beauty of our world the way that I see it. I have always been drawn to nature and my paintings and style reflect my deep appreciation for the natural world. I want the viewer to smell the air and feel the breeze when they see my work.

I create with a variety of media to capture the essence of what I love. Recently I’ve been into pen, pencil, pastels, and fiber arts. Frequent subjects of mine are outer space, everyday vignettes, and the Allen-Bradley Clocktower.

I am a self-taught artist with a background in horticulture and corporate administration. I discovered encaustic technique during my years as a beekeeper, becoming enraptured n the process, more recently integrating wax with other mediums, including but not limited to photography, 3D applications and mixed media.

Appreciating the beauty and bounty of Wisconsin’s landscape, it is my desire to capture places and spaces that might draw others in. The landscape abounds with beauty, reflecting the character of the Creator.
Like Henri Nouwen said, “my greatest vocation is to be a witness to the glimpses of God I’ve been allowed to catch.”

Mary creates artworks that express her love for the land, especially wild spaces, in an intuitive style utilizing painting, fiber, and photography. Her sensitivity to color and nuance has led to an expression of this love of nature through seeing with a quiet eye, a way to discern atmospheric shifts in color, texture, and shape with deep sensitivity. Mary's use of abstraction encourages the viewer to see deeply through the surface, beyond the physical realm, to experience the artwork through the heart and spirit.

What comes through each of Mary's artworks is a combination of gathered visual inspiration, remembered life experiences, and the feelings that remain long after an experience has passed.

Trees, the forest, shorelines and waterways, and the changing light of the sky feature heavily as abstract subject matter in Mary's mixed media artworks. She plays with the contrasts between liminal and littoral space to create subtle shifts in meaning in an ethereal style meant to open the viewer to their own interpretation of meaning.

Mary works in a variety of media including oil, cold wax, fiber, earth and mineral pigments, and acrylic paints and mediums. she often includes collage elements of her digitally manipulated photography. Brushes are rarely used. Non-traditional tools such as squeegees, trowels, brayers, and handmade tools are used for their abilities to create textures and marks that reveal layers hidden deep within each painting.