Mary Martin, a native of St. Louis, MO, relocated to Wilmington, NC in 2024.In her art practice since 2012, Martin works with themes of peace and joy expressed in botanical, landscape and seascape collage and mixed media art. Her work incorporates painted tissue papers, rice papers, sheet music, sacred texts, and handwritten scriptures. Her work is influenced by her love of nature, Japanese art, the Impressionists, and nearly 40 years of being a church choir singer and cantor, which has imprinted the words of the Psalms on her heart and mind. The words of scripture and...more