Mary Davidson Artist
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Mary Davidson Artist
Mary Davidson was born in Dundee, lived in Australia for a few years as a child, and has been living and working in the Glasgow and Edinburgh areas since 1986.
In 1995 Mary was elected an artist member of the Paisley Art Institute and the following year was accepted into the Glasgow Society of Women Artists.
Her work is in numerous private and public collections including Vanity Fair in New York; the Duke of Bedford collection; Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen; East Dunbartonshire Council and Cala Homes.
"The main focus of my work is light and its effect on objects. I seem to be constantly striving to capture it and describe it in paint. All sorts of subjects inspire me, however I always seem to come back to tabletops with jugs of big Oriental Poppies, Sunflowers or Roses.
Creating a looseness of brushwork that hopefully suggests rather than dictates a scene, is crucial to the finished piece. I like to play with the boundaries, making abstract marks that will work together to create a recognisable image that makes sense to the viewer. I am not trying to achieve pure representation. I paint what I admire and what excites me visually. I love the challenge of translating into paint. For me the real excitement builds once the imagination takes over and the paint begins to work for me. I love the feel and the smell of the paint.
Plockton in Wester Ross and the islands of Mull and Iona are areas where I have returned to on many occasions and from where a lot of inspiration comes. I love their remoteness and their quality of light and try to reflect this in my work. Iona is a special place for me and is an unlimited source of subject matter. I will always return.
I work in oils using a range of palette knives and brushes (mostly large flats and filberts which allow me to keep it loose). I tend to use anything to apply the paint that makes an interesting mark, even fingers come in handy when moving the paint around!
The paints I use are artist quality permanent pigments.
I feel there is still so much I need to learn about painting - I hope I never stop learning."
SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1992-2017
Annan Gallery, Glasgow
Art Forum, Mingavie, Glasgow
Atholl Gallery, Dunkeld
Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
Colours Gallery, Edinburgh
Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton
Di Rollo Gallery, Edinburgh
Fotheringham Gallery, Bridge of Allan
Frames Gallery, Perth
Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow
Green Gallery, Aberfoyle
Green Gallery, Munich, Germany
Gullane Gallery, East Lothian
Hagen Fine Art, London
Hunter Gallery, Long Melford
Iona House Gallery, Woodstock, Oxford
Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
Kranenburg Fine Arts, Oban
Lemond Gallery, Glasgow
Lillie Gallery, Glasgow
Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
MacLaurin Gallery, Ayr
Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh
Paisley Art Institute
Gallery Q, Dundee
Red Rag Gallery, Bath
Stafford Gallery, London
Stenton Gallery, East Lothian
Strathearn Gallery, Crieff
Tolquhon Gallery, Ellon
Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh
Wade Gallery, Elie
Walker Gallery, Harrogate
Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
Wilson Davis Gallery, Bridge of Weir
Wren Gallery, Burford
ARTIST MEMBERSHIP
Glasgow Society of Women Artists (elected artist member in 1995)
Paisley Art Institute (elected artist member in 1996)
WORK ACCEPTED FOR EXHIBITION AT
Royal Glasgow Institute (R.G.I.)
Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour (R.S.W.)
Paisley Art Institute (P.A.I.)
Laing
ART FAIRS
New York
London
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Cannes, France
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