“The longer I paint, (and I have been painting most of my life), the more I feel that the point is to just paint. Techniques can be learned, styles can be copied, but, when all is said and done, it is the artist’s honest response to his motif that creates art.”

Mary Iselin is known for her light-filled, luminous paintings of lambs, sheep, and other farm animals, as well as for her plein air landscapes. She has spent the last thirty years on a working farm in the Monadnock region of NH, so her subject matter is all around her, and she knows it well. She feels extremely grateful to have outside animal chores to attend to twice daily, at dawn and dusk, because that is when the light is most inspirational, and each spring she awaits the birth of her “new models”. Iselin received her B.A. from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, and has studied with many artists, including Alex Farquarson, Peter Granucci, Robert Collier, Shannon Sternwies and Robert Higgins. She is a full-time artist, who also makes time to teach at the Sharon School of Art in Sharon, NH. An award-winning artist, her work had been featured in solo exhibitions throughout the region, including shows at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, The Diamond T Gallery, Baldenville, MA., The Monadnock Fine Art Gallery and The Sharon Arts Gallery, Peterborough, NH.

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