Voices of Experience - Mary Erickson

Evening Rapture 36 x 48” Oil

“As much as I want to portray the look of the landscape, I want to paint the experience of being there. I am searching for the truth in a scene, and when I find it and paint it, those senses and emotions all come through the brush and onto the canvas.”

Mary Erickson is a passionate artist and conservationist. She is also an event coordinator, teacher and business woman. She travels between her studios in North Carolina and Florida during most of the year, spending summers in Maine with a select group of artist contemporaries. Erickson is a devoted landscape and wildlife artist who is also committed to giving of her time and experience to others.

She wrote to us about the journey her life has taken, her teachers and her inspirations.