Voices of Experience - Mary Pettis

Time Stands Still 48 x 30” Oil
Finalist in the Raymar Fine Art Competition
December 2014

“What we discover when we go inward is our poetic response to life. Through contemplation, we come back outward with the ideas we will bring into our work.”

Mary Pettis can trace her artistic roots to a childhood growing up on a farm in southern Minnesota. Her fascinations with the patterns, colors and rhythms of nature have informed her work ever since. Pettis now lives in the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway along the Wisconsin/Minnesota border. Her lifetime in art has led her through classical training in representational technique to a contemplative study of more abstract concepts of painting. She strives to use the artist’s toolbox to convey emotion and impression. Throughout years of study and the frustrations of honing her craft she says, “There is something to be lea…