Mary Blue is an American artist, currently living on the North Norfolk Coast, in the UK. She is a lover of the coast and large open landscape countryside views typically painting wide boards to show the flow of hills, trees, rivers, coastline, sand or sea. In 2019, she also focused on a series of small square individual flower forms. Her art is represented not only in the paint she applies to board but also the poetry she often inscribes within a painting.
“My painterly work weaves in written words with layers of jewel-toned colours and reflects upon the impermanence of life and the powerful forces of nature. I paint the cultural imprint history leaves on the landscape, echoing the sound of ancient footsteps from centuries ago, of fishermen collecting cockles in the creeks, of farmers bringing in the harvest.”
Paint Out Norfolk – Second Prize (2020)
Paint Out Norfolk – Participated (2019)
Paint Out Gardens – Participated (2019)
Paint Out Holt – Third Prize (2019)
Paint Out Wells-next-the-Sea – Participated (2018)
Paint Out Great Yarmouth – Participated (2018)
Paint Out Sudbury – Participated (2018)
Paint Out Norwich – Participated (2017)
Paint Out Wells-next-the-Sea – Participated (2017)
Sample Gallery & Works for Sale
Artist Mary Blue, Invisible Stars, Holkham Gap, Norfolk, Acrylic, 8x24in, £450.
Paint Out Norfolk 2022
Artist Mary Blue, Roots Reach Down twice the Depth notice the Current Underground, River Yare Whitlingham Norfolk, Acrylic, 8x24in, £450.
Paint Out Norfolk 2022
Artist Mary Blue, The Bittersweet taste of Salt on your Lips, Wells Beach, Norfolk, Acrylic, 8x24in, £450.
Paint Out Norfolk 2022
Artist Mary Blue, Purple Haze, Holkham Gap, Norfolk, Acrylic, 18x24in, FOR SALE, £790
Paint Out Norfolk 2021
Artist Mary Blue, Deep Dark River Runs to the Edge of Nowhere, River Yare, Norfolk, Acrylic, 3x12in, SOLD, £150
Paint Out Norfolk 2021
Artist Mary Blue Brady, Willow at the Waters Edge, Surlingham, Mixed Media, 15x40in, FOR SALE, £125
Artist Mary Blue Brady, Willow at the Waters Edge, Surlingham, Mixed Media, 15x40in, £125. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Mary Blue Brady, Cultivating the Edge, Wiveton Down, Acrylic, 8x32in, FOR SALE, £295
Artist Mary Blue Brady, Cultivating the Edge, Wiveton Down, Acrylic, 8x32in, £295. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'The centre of all things', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'The centre of all things', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Unyielding sunlight everpresent', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Unyielding sunlight everpresent', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Under the blush Dahlia sky', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Under the blush Dahlia sky', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Bees are good company', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Bees are good company', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Mary Blue Brady, 'In a Field, I am the absence of a Field', Outskirts of Holt off Holt Rd, Mixed Media, 8x24in, FOR SALE, £450
Artist: Mary Blue Brady, Title: In a Field, I am the absence of a Field, Location: Outskirts of Holt off Holt Rd, Media: Mixed Media, Size: 8x24in, £450 Third Prize
Mary Blue Brady, 'Keeping Things Whole', A Field in Sudbury, Acrylic, 12x12in, FOR SALE
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Keeping Things Whole', A Field in Sudbury, Acrylic, 12x12in, £200. Paint Out Sudbury 2018
Mary Blue Brady, 'Just Once', A Field in Sudbury, Acrylic, 6x12in, FOR SALE
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Just Once', A Field in Sudbury, Acrylic, 6x12in, £150. Paint Out Sudbury 2018
Mary Blue Brady, 'In a Field I am Absence of Field', Mill River, Sudbury, Acrylic, 12x12in, FOR SALE
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'In a Field I am Absence of Field', Mill River, Sudbury, Acrylic, 12x12in, £250. Paint Out Sudbury 2018
Paint Out Norfolk 13-22 July 2023 expects 900+ paintings to be created by 100+ plein air artists at a dozen Norwich and Norfolk locations around coast and countryside with a week-long rolling exhibition at Whitlingham Country Park, Thursday Awards and Private View with prestigious judges, and Weekend Final View
Paint Out Norfolk 2022
Paint Out Norfolk 15-24 July 2022 saw 700+ paintings created by 75+ plein air artists at a dozen Norwich and Norfolk locations around coast and countryside with a week-long rolling exhibition at Whitlingham Country Park, Friday Awards and Private View with prestigious judges, and Weekend Final View. See the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Norfolk 2021
Paint Out Norfolk 16-24 July 2021 saw 600+ paintings created by 70+ plein air artists at a dozen Norwich and Norfolk locations around coast and countryside with a week-long rolling exhibition at Whitlingham Country Park, Friday Awards and Private View with prestigious judges, and Saturday all-day Final View. See the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Paint Out Norfolk 16-23 July 2020 saw 400+ paintings created by 50+ plein air artists at a dozen Norwich and Norfolk locations around coast and countryside with a week long rolling exhibition at Whitlingham Country Park and last day Final View. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Gardens Series 2019
Paint Out Gardens in Norfolk ran May-October 2019 and saw 130 paintings created by 36 plein air artists across the seasons and 6 hidden or historic gardens. Prizes were awarded by Norfolk-based Art Historian, Charlotte Crawley – a former curator and past Director of the East Anglia Art Fund, as well as Tom Humphrey and Sophie Barratt of the Fairhurst Gallery, Norwich. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Holt 2019
Paint Out Holt 19-20 July 2019 saw 55 paintings created by 22 plein air artists across 3 sessions from Friday to Saturday morning ahead of opening the Holt Festival at Picturecraft Gallery in Holt. Prizes were awarded by Robert Upstone, former Senior Curator of 20th Century Art at Tate and Norfolk-based Art Historian, Charlotte Crawley – a former curator and past Director of the East Anglia Art Fund. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Norfolk 2019
Paint Out Norfolk 1-5 July 2019 saw 100 paintings created by 27 plein air artists at 5 Norwich and Norfolk locations from coast to county ending at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art for a last day paint out and Private View. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Cambridge 2019
Paint Out Cambridge 13-15 May 2019 saw 135 artworks made by 28 plein air artists at this inaugural Cambridgeshire event with Cheffins Fine Art. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Karen Adams, Paul Alcock, John Behm, Mary Blue Brady, Shaun Carey, James Colman (guest artist), Tom Cringle, Sheila Cunningham, Jan Dingle, Jan Gaska, Jack Godfrey, Audrey Hay, Julie Hodgson, Mary Kallagher, Susanna MacInnes, Aggie Matyjaszek, Eloise O’Hare, Georgina Potter, Sam Robbins, Lesley Williams
Paint Out Great Yarmouth 2018
Paint Out Great Yarmouth took place in the historic Norfolk coastal town on 1 September 2018. Yarmouth has featured in historic paintings and its history in art was portrayed during ‘Drawn to the Coast: Turner, Constable, Cotman‘ which explored the identity of Great Yarmouth and its surrounding landscape through the artwork it has inspired. J.M.W Turner and John Constable, Norwich School of painters such as Joseph Stannard, John Sell Cotman and John Crome were all drawn to paint here.
Paint Out Sudbury took place in the historic wool and silk town on 30 June 2018, on the Essex/Suffolk border, home to Thomas Gainsborough who inspired John Constable, with picturesque scenery including the Water Meadows, Valley Trail and River Stour, the old railway line, market town itself, St Peter’s Church, and Gainsborough’s house and garden, among the 247 Heritage Listed buildings. One day, two sessions, en plein air! View the gallery of artworks online.
Paint Out 2017 saw an en plein air invitational event at the Royal Norfolk Show. Fifteen hardy artists painted all the colour and character of the UK’s largest two-day agricultural event amidst torrential downpours and mud to rival Glastonbury! From fairground to farriers, and pigs to poultry, there was plenty to paint. Our artists were positioned around the Norfolk Showground site, returning their wet artworks every few hours to our tent for a live art auction on the first day, and continually refreshed rolling exhibition over both days. View the gallery of artworks online.
