Featured Artist for August - Mary Anne Bunkers

Mary Anne Bunkers, a member of the Artists Gallery, is the gallery's featured artist for the month of August.

Mary Anne is a retired nurse who has been painting since 1968. She began painting in oils, switched to acrylic paints, and finally found her medium in transparent watercolor. Now that she is retired, she is free to devote 25 to 30 hours a week to her painting including research, planning, photographing for reference, matting and framing, in addition to time spent with brush, paint and paper.

Mary Anne has studied under several artists nationally, including Jeanne Carbonetti (The Tao of Watercolor, The Zen of Creative Painting, etc.), Anita Wong (Chinese brush stroke), Ron Ranson (Big brush techniques), Nita Engle (How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself), Linda Tate, Frank Stern, John Goray and Jerry Belland. With this Background of watercolor painting instruction, Mary Anne has developed her own style. Her goal is to share her delight and enthusiasm for painting through the medium itself. She believes painting is the fulfillment of an inner gift that is to be shared. Mary Anne's goal is to keep learning some of the many applications of watercolor and other media.

Mary Anne has exhibited at the Junior League of Memphis Exhibition, Racine Art Guild Invitational Shows, and Wauwatosa Art Workshop Exhibits, with a personal show at MotoPhoto.

Gallery Night

Gallery night on Saturday July 19 was a great success. The gallery was filled with great people and many of the member artists were in attendance to meet with the people. Gallery night was the final opening that included the yellow dot celebration, the used art book sale and Thom Peterson's fine work. The next opening will be for First Friday on August 1.