Pastel Society of Eastern Canada
Société de Pastel de l'Est du Canada
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Mary Dorland
Signature Member
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Biography
Born in Scotland, but raised in Canada, Mary Dorland has always had an affinity for art. Drawing and painting in oils were an early passion. She spent a number of years in advertising for the medical and pharmaceutical industry, working with graphic artists and advertising agencies. She began to study art in 1996, experimenting in mixed media, but quickly choosing her favourite mediums, pastel and oil. She enjoys their ease of handling and brilliant colour. “My painting is so much about the quality of light. Both of these mediums give me the tools to give life to my work. When it's all about the light you have a whole world to explore”.
Mary has received numerous portrait commissions and awards and enjoys painting landscapes in the Charlevoix and Kamouraska regions.
Mary is a member of the Lakeshore Artists Association, The Manotick Artists Association, Pastel Artists.Ca, and is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of Eastern Canada.
Artist Statement
My paintings are about contrast – between bright red poppies and a green field, between the last light on a far sky and the foreground buildings aready in shadow, or between the winter sunlight outside a window and the objects on a windowsill. Often it is an interesting light pattern that motivates me to start a painting, a bit of drama that draws me to the subject. I use the geomettry of the subject – the road in the landscape or the placement of objects on a table – to travel into a painting.
I paint loosely, trying to capture my initial enthusiasm for the subject as quickly as possible. My drafting skills give my paintings a strong structural underbelly that contains the loose brushstrokes and captures the mood of my subject at a certain time and place.
Morning Coffee
Winter Light
Brushing the Cat
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