My paintings are influenced by nature and inspired by abstract patterns against atmospheric color and scattered light in the sky. My work describes the solitary discovery of a place in time and the unconscious forms and meaning generated from the experience. An emotional undercurrent is vital to my imagery, and my use of paint is expressionistic within this framework. The landscape is a launching point for imagination and interpreting the experience through painting my form of meditation.
Mary Powers Holt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her home and studio are on a historic farm in Chester Springs, where the landscape and farm buildings inform her work. Mary exhibits her work with the Cerulean Arts Collective Members Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. She studied visual arts at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts and Art History at the University of Pennsylvania through the Academy and Penn’s coordinated B.F.A./Certificate program.