Mary works with stillness. In her practice layers of pigment are laid down, shifted, withdrawn and then allowed to settle over time. Each painting comes to be through her slow rhythm of deposition and erosion. This process becomes a way of listening, to what arrives, and to what lingers, and to what asks to remain unseen.

She approaches the canvas without a rigid plan or predetermined form, beginning instead with openness. The work unfolds gradually, through waiting and attentiveness, unhurried, allowing her practice to draw close to the monastic, trusting that perception sharpens through presence.

At the heart of her work is a commitment to seeing rather than simply looking, attuning to the beauty that already exists. Through delicate layers of colour and light, her paintings become meditations, quiet conversations between presence and discovery, and rediscovery. For Mary, painting is less an act of making than of revealing, a dialogue between the seen and unseen, between silence and movement and light, each meeting in its own time… as it comes.