Mary Page Evans

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In 1984, artist Gene Davis described Mary Page Evans paintings as, “hymns of unadulterated joy.” While Evans paints still lifes and images of the human form it is her landscape and garden paintings created directly from nature, en plein air that capture this sentiment. Evans exhibits in Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. She has artwork in numerous public and private collections such as: the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Delaware Art Museum, and the State Museum of Pennsylvania. In 2012, Painted Poetry: The Art of Mary Page Evans, will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Delaware Museum of Art.

Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1937

Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Art Students League, New York City
Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.

 

Solo Exhibitions

2012

Delaware Art Museum – Painted Poetry: the Art of Mary Page Evans,  Retrospective, Wilmington, DE

2011

Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC

2009

Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

2008

Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC

2006

Carspecken Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE

2005

Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

2004

Carspecken Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE

2003

Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA

2002

Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

2002

The Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, West Palm Beach, FL

2001

Beverley Street Studio School, Staunton, VA

2000, 1997, ’93, ’90, ’88, ’84, ’80, ’79, ’76, ’74

Carspecken Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DC

1998

Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
Susan Conway Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1996

Ballet Series, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1995, ’92, ’89, ’88, ’86

Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1994

Hollins Univeristy Art Gallery, Roanoke, VA

1993

Allan P. Kirby Arts Center Gallery, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ

1992

Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County, Camden, SC

1987

Wallace-Wentworth Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1986

Wilmington Arts Commission, City-County Building, Delaware Artist of the Year, Wilmington, DE

1985

Decker Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA

1984

Hull Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1980

Danville Art Museum, Danville, VA

1978

Eastern College, Philadelphia, PA

1977

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1975

Woodberry Forest School, Orange, VA

1973

Delaware State Arts Council, Wilmington, DE

1972, ’70, ’69

Gallery at Centreville, Wilmington, DE

1971

Washington Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

 

I am primarily a landscape painter. I work directly from nature–en plein air. I look at a specific landscape, establish its locale, the time of day, the quality of light, and paint it. Becoming involved with its particularities, I get to know it as if I were painting a figure or still life. During the process, I am always creating and destroying until I arrive at the inevitability of this particular landscape.

Art History has always played an important role in my work. Having studied the structural lessons of Cezanne and the “push-pull” principle of Hans Hoffman, I try to loosen the form and let color determine the structure and create the space. I strive for a visual back and forth in the space resulting from forms and colors reacting to each other – like music. Cezanne once said, “Painting from nature is not copying the object, but realizing ones sensations.”

When I paint the landscape, I fee like signing.