Mary’s paintings have the energy of abstract expressionists like DeKooning or Kline, but channeled through the landscape tradition. Her paintings generate space through color and suggested terrain. Her Rococo color pallet combined with lose impressions of natural features evoke the fantasy worlds of Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Thomas Gainsborough, who often blended nature with romantic or pastoral scenes. Mary describes her work subjectively as memories of places and shared encounters and so the light and color of Mary’s paintings feel like a fantastic dream.