Mary Graham

Mary Graham grew up in Manhattan and attended the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. After college she worked on and off Broadway as a set and costume designer and scenic artist; she moved to New Hampshire with her husband David in 1987. After launching two daughters, Mary returned to painting and received a BFA in Painting from the NH Institute of Art. Her focus became mountain landscape, both imagined and observed, her pursuit a seeking to evoke the solitude, the silence, and the transcendence of some of New England’s most evocative and special wild places. Interested in light and atmosphere, influenced by the aesthetics of the American tonalists and the ‘mountains and rivers’ tradition of ancient Chinese poets, she began making color woodblock prints after taking a Japanese hanga method workshop with Matt Brown in the fall of 2018. Represented by several N. E. galleries, her paintings and prints have been exhibited in solo and group gallery shows throughout the northeast and are included in numerous private and corporate collections.