This painting was revealed to me during the process. As I sat with it at various stages, I was able to ponder things in a visceral way because...

There is a tenderness in witnessing your children grow. Separation comes in waves. You say to them “Go out and try it!”, knowing you are their soft place to...

Do we get to choose how we feel? Or does it just somehow happen to us?

“Mariana’s Captive”   Blown in from the East, a clumsy landing.  Paper Wet Wide   Fake blossoming on the surface tension. Sinking   Lightning flashes in...

2 Places I’m Sharing my Art this Month! 1. Ryan James Fine Arts in Kirkland Washington- all month Ryan James Fine Arts invited me to...

I have prints available now! This is the first time I have done a limited print run and I am really excited to offer these...

I titled it “Eminence” because of the majestic feel that it had in the end, and the true glow of the yellow tone contrasting with the other stark colors....

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Our lives are complicated and diverse and all of us are dealing with so many things at once. I am in awe of it. I can see it in my...

Many times as I finish a painting after months of layering and doting upon it, I feel like it is just the beginning of exploring a visual concept....

As I reflect on this process of pairing a song with an artwork I am really quite energized by the complexity. Music is abstract just like my paintings, and...

I want to share with you a few of the thoughts behind the song Grow Away. My partner in time and space, Brian DeWeese, and I...

Life, as a projection of our mind, is meant to crumble. It was never meant to last. Life is a series of detours and beautiful interruptions.  It...

I started this painting on a day I felt particularly rejected as a mother. For as high as my pride and love goes up, it can also come down and...

I am going to be hosting two zoom meeting times where I’ll show you around my studio, what I’m working on, and answer questions like “but maëry, what is it?”....

Artists are all offering you (the world) our vulnerability in some way. It is hard to wear multiple hats and have to switch back and forth between creating from the...

I chose to include a wide spectrum of color undulating from cool to warm so as to cover all of the possibilities in life.  I also had a wide...

Usually we feel like logic is at the center of our understanding. We strive and hide, pull away and lurch forward. Logic is there as an undeniable magnet. A dotted...

  “No Such Thing As Silence” “Can you hear my voice? A tap at a window. A drop of a pebble....

This painting is a top view of the tension before an eruption. It is an emotional illustration of what it feels like to smooth over and contain...

Everyone has their own recording of their own story deep deep inside. I don’t see it in a chronological way.  I see it as facets that sparkle, ever changing and...

My favorite part of any design process is the initial brainstorm.  I just try to get as many ideas on paper as possible. The key here is to work in...

I vacillate between wanting to communicate to the masses and wanting to be authentic and just do what I see, not worrying about the communicating part.  There is a fine...

That moment in time where we decide to really go for it, and live life to the fullest. It’s the moment that we accept that we have flaws, but we...

I wanted her hands, like fists, to be visibly gripping the steering wheel, and the look in her eye to be intense and also determined. His silhouette is a little...

The process of discovering how to illustrate ideas that are slippery and difficult to explain requires a lot of patience. I remember several times while painting these, I would just...

When I started this painting, I wanted to do something very spacious, and of the rich colors that I saw in a dream. It was a really strange dream where...

The essence of this piece is togetherness, and feeling close to a person.  So close, you overlap.  I also see it as facets, like in a diamond or crystal.  I...

I remember thinking and feeling a lot of things while creating this.  It was made over many sessions of layering.  The sessions were drawn out because I like to let...

Local filmmakers, Sandra Garcia-Arceo, and Katelyn Jones asked me to design a poster for their film “Rotten”. If you're curious about the film, they have a

“It is the way it is and always has been, and that is enough. The tracking number leads to revelation.”

"As the years pass, the veil lifts. I am entitled to more because I am more.”

“Only after I am made a fool do I see it...or even think it's possible. My tenderness is spontaneous. But not the world, no not the world.”

“Like splits in a path, fractured and crawling as a web, the choices map my story.” As time passes, my solid memories are dislodged from themselves.  They start to float free...

This painting is a diagram of energy being regulated.  It is a glimpse into the invisible world of natural justice. 

  “Cut open to the Glory. The poignant insides that claim me. The loyalty that erupts. When she looks at me I want to be my best self.”