The Paolo Mejia Art Gallery and Design Studio is proud to announce our “Abstract Making Class/workshop” featured artist, Mary Collins. Her show entitled “Blue Series” will be showing the culmination of what she learned in class. The artwork will depict the Principles and Elements of Art and Design using textures and grounds, color mixtures and schemes, and brush and paint strokes. We invite you to come, attend and see her show.

Mary Collins began her art career in Boston and New York as a photography teacher and a commercial photographer. After several years in the darkroom and the photography studio, she transitioned into digital photography and, now she is into the colorful world of fine arts.

The inspiration for Mary’s artwork comes primarily from her travels and her photographs. While traveling and studying at the American College of Art and Design in Paris, Mary was greatly influenced by the French countryside, the paintings of Claude Monet and his home in Giverny. American abstract formalist Helen Frankenthaler and abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell inspire her current work.

Blending soothing colors and whimsical images are the focus of many of her art pieces, although there are the occasional environmental portraits of friends and family. Capturing  the action or the feeling of the moment are evident in many of her pieces. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, the subtle colors create images that are serene and inspirational.

As a part of the Bay Area artist community, Mary maintains her private studio at the Peninsula Studios, in San Mateo, California  where she continues to  transform her many artistic ideas into works on paper,  collage and abstract expressionism.

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