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 D'AIMER tENDREMENt, 2009 MIXED MEDIA ON PLYWOOD 23X23 IN. /58X58 CM. «
marY ann WakeleY  BREAKthROuGh, 2009 MIXED MEDIA ON PLYWOOD 9X9 IN. /22,5X22,5 CM. «
 whItE LIGht AND FANtASIES, 2009 MIXED MEDIA ON PLYWOOD 11.7X12 IN. /29,5X30 CM. «
Lives and works in Wynnewood, PA, USA  LE MEILLEuR MOMENt DE L'AMOuR c'ESt quAND ON MONtE L'EScALIER, 2009 MIXED MEDIA
ON PLYWOOD 40X40 IN. /101,5X101,5 CM. «
THE ARTIST ONLINE www.maryannwakeley.com
 DES REStES DE DéSIR, 2009 MIXED MEDIA ON PLYWOOD18X18 IN. /45,5X45,5 CM.
 PRINcIPLES OF uNcERtAINtY, 2009 MIXED MEDIA ON PLYWOOD 23X23 IN. /58X58 CM.

Living and working in the suburbs north and west of Philadelphia immediate and engaging. Rarely taking breaks, painting is as necessary
known as the Main Line, Mary Ann Wakeley expresses her inner world to her daily routine as taking meals. It is not who she is, but more
through the language of color and line. Born in 1961, Wakeley is a self accurately an expression of experience. Each work is a conversation
taught painter. She has been exploring her inner landscape through with self about what is taking place in the moment.
abstract art since 2003 when she began using color and line as a sort
of visual Braille for self discovery. Using acrylics and pastels, she paints to music letting it take her out
of the physical realm. This allows the essence of feelings to bubble
Wakeley is best known for her use of color as subject which sets the up to the surface where they are then translated onto the wooden
tone for every work. However, color alone is not truly the subject. Depth support into a visual coherency. The recent series of horizon paintings
of human emotion is what is really conveyed—joy, sensual pleasure, reflects her love of line and the potential that exists within it. Wakeley
and adventure mingle with a measure of tension and uncertainty to explores the horizon line as a creative starting point. Much as a crevice
keep things interesting. She paints daily allowing the art to carry her in consciousness, it represents the birthplace of forms from spiritual
spirit directly into the painting to say what needs to be said and feel into physical reality where they emerge, co-exist, intertwine, multiply
whatever is there. Because of this delivery, the viewer’s response is and divide - a beautiful representation of the nature of life itself

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