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Mary Davidson

Mary was born in Dundee and lived in Australia for a few years as a child. She lived in Glasgow for 12 years from 1986 before moving to West Lothian in 1998. Mary studied at Glasgow School of Art as part of the Continuing Education Programme and has been exhibiting regularly since 1994. Since then she has taken part in many exhibitions, to wide acclaim, on both sides of the Atlantic and now has works in numerous private collections in Britain and abroad. She is an artist member of the Glasgow Society of Women Artists and the Paisley Art Institute and has exhibited at the R.S.W., R.G.I. and Laing Art Exhibitions. Mary works mainly in oil. She paints a range of subject matters in an expressive manner that captures light and colour. She particularly enjoys the effect of light and shade and whilst she derives particular pleasure from the shorelines of the West Coast of Scotland, she also enjoys painting landscapes, interiors and still life.

"Much of my inspiration comes from flowers and still life objects around the studio or the land and seascapes on the West coast of Scotland. Mull and Iona have been a constant source of inspiration. I love the changing light. Always it is the light that I am striving to portray in my work, that is what excites me visually and I love the challenge of translating that into paint. It is not about capturing a scene with complete accuracy, my work is about responses to the moods and atmospheres generated by landscapes and still life. For me the real excitement builds once the imagination takes over and the paint begins to work for me. I have experimented with different media over the years but now prefer to work in oil."

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