Mary Visser
Mary Visser creates large-scale abstract paintings of invented spaces. Visser’s paintings are rooted in the landscape tradition and have grown out of her ongoing interest in city streets and the people that move through them. What are the social and personal implications of living and working in this context? How and where do the external and internal spaces intersect and what do we understand from this?
In the studio, Mary works on many surfaces at once and moves between them with a fluid and impulse driven approach. Working in acrylic paint, wax pastel and spray paint on magazine pages, paper and canvas, the artist draws on their visual references of street minutiae. These are then combined combined with contour drawings of junk shop objects and fashion and interior image fragments. Mary layers, collages and clumps together many disparate elements finding many new visual delights.
Visser adds to her visual lexicon on morning runs and on the drive between her studio and home. More recently her focus has shifted to include the domestic interior as a quietly emotive setting for the routines of family life. Mary is on the lookout for a poignancy or overlooked moment of beauty; our human imprint within the spaces that we inhabit.
See Mary’s work below!
