Mary works with stillness.

Layers of pigment are laid down, shifted, sometimes withdrawn, sometimes left to settle. Her paintings follow a quiet rhythm, where what is seen and unseen folds into the surface. This slow process of deposition and erosion becomes a form of listening, listening to what is given and to what asks to remain.

She approaches the canvas without rigid plans or defined forms, beginning instead with openness and allowing each piece to unfold organically. They are paintings shaped not by force but by waiting. Her practice draws close to the monastic: attentive, unhurried, and open to the sharpening of perception.

At the heart of her work is a commitment to seeing rather than merely looking, to being present to the beauty that already exists. Through delicate layers of colour and light, her paintings emerge as meditations, quiet conversations between presence and discovery. For Mary, painting is less an act of creation and more an act of revealing: a dialogue between the seen and the unseen, between silence and movement and light as they meet in their own time.