Mary Swann
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Mary
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Mary Swann is an outdoor painter who paints landscapes in York County, PA, in Maryland and Nova Scotia. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, she was for many years represented in Baltimore by the former Paper Rock Scissors and the former Gomez Galleries. In 2001, she had the unforgettable pleasure of being Visiting Artist at MICA’s summer program in San Miguel de Allende. In 1996-97, she was among the first artists to work at Goya Girl Press whose prints were collected in a folio that became part of the permanent collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Over the years, Mary has also created a large body of narrative quilts. More recently, she has illustrated two books, The Story of the Close Cat, a children’s book which she wrote, and Call and Answer, a book of poems by Joyce S. Brown, which was published in October 2005. A Fearsome Day, a new children’s storybook of Mary’s with illustrations of fabric images, will be coming out in the fall of 2007.
Most of Mary’s paintings are done
on site in the rural countryside that surrounds her, but her boat race series
was done from a bank of the Susquehanna River in Havre de Grace, MD, where
weekly boat races take place on Thursday afternoons during the months of Daylight
Saving. Little Port L’Hébert is a tiny hamlet in southwestern
Nova Scotia where her sister owns a summer cottage.