Abergavenny Artists

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Mary James

Mary’s life-long passion for Art extends to its study, history, teaching, examining and last but not least its practice.

Since retiring she has chiefly focused on the exploration of watercolour enjoying its vibrant colours, beautiful glazes and the accidental drama of its varied textures created by splattering, spraying and dripping paint.

Her work is representational in the main with a leaning towards abstraction depending on the subject matter. This includes still life, landscape, life drawing and figurative work. Mary prefers working from the model where possible and keeps a sketchbook of notes and scribbles to aid the development of ideas, but also uses photographs as a backup or aide-memoire where appropriate.

Mary’s original training was in Art and Textiles and her first creative endeavours were collage and creative machine embroidery. A tutor and friend from this time, Joan Oxland is largely responsible for the transition from textiles to paint when a decade ago she encouraged Mary to paint in oils!

She says, "The journey certainly counts and who knows what lies ahead?"



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