Mary Thomas

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Images © Mary Thomas 2004
Most of my work is painting and I enjoy teaching people to paint and draw but I also enjoy introducing them to and challenging them with, the ideas surrounding contemporary and conceptual art. This task has become less of an uphill struggle in the years since I began my teaching career as we seem to be becoming a more ‘visually aware’ society. My work too has taken on a more conceptual edge as my most successful recent pieces have been ‘made’ not painted.
 

 

BIOGRAPHY - MARY THOMAS. B.A. (Hons) Visual Art

1942            Born Truro, Cornwall.
1960-63       Teacher’s Certificate, St Gabriel’s College, Camberwell.
1963-70
and 1977-83. Teaching Art in Secondary schools.
1970-77        Producing and directing two sons.
1983-present Teaching Art in Adult Education.
1992-1996     Winchester School of Art. B.A. in Visual Art.

 
  Recent Group Exhibitions

2004       ‘Mothers’ West End Arts Centre, Aldershot.
2003/4    ‘Self Portrait’ Southampton Art Gallery.
2003       ‘Women’s Work’. West End Arts Centre Aldershot
2002       ‘Sightlines Originals’ Sponsored by Basingstoke and Deane B.C.
2001       ‘Art From Words’. Southampton Art Gallery.
             ‘Dance Movement’. Corn Exchange and Greenham Arts.Newbury
2000       ‘Remarks on the Landscape’ Outdoor Exhibition for the Mayors Fringe, Newbury.
             ‘Bodylines’ sponsored by Basingstoke and Deane B.C.
1999       ‘Multicoloured’ Farnham Maltings.
              Chichester Open Art Competition. Edes House, Chichester
              ‘Sightlines Originals’ sponsored by Basingstoke and Deane B.C.
              ‘The Art of Chairs’ Southampton Art Gallery’
  
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