Mary Byrom is an award winning, internationally exhibited artist, well known for her sensitive, elegant interpretations of wild, beautiful places. She paints outdoors all year, capturing plein air paintings of the landscape that are brought back to the studio where they become the inspiration for large landscape paintings. She paints en plein air around the country, and is a sought after teacher.
She is featured in publications such as, the Plein Air Magazine , Southwest Art magazine, the Portland Press Herald, Art Scope and numerous other publications. She lives in North Berwick, Maine.
Visual art is a language. As an artist I paint to express or communicate ideas, stories, moods, beauty, memories and moments in time. Painting in nature calls for patience, diligence, resourcefulness, perseverance and humor. I am surrounded by my subject, immersed in its mood and affected by its mercurial temperament as the light, air and temperature constantly change all around me. The time of day, the season of the year, the weather and temperature all affect how I choose, view and paint the scene in front of me.
The challenge of this task is for me to totally concentrate on the mood or scene that first captured my attention. The light on billowing white clouds, the contemplative calm of reflecting water or the golden light of afternoon sun on an autumn hillside may entice me to pause and study a scene, but it will be a deeper connection to it that will persuade me to paint it.