Mary Walters

Art House 37
Address: 4 Joppa Park
Open: 7/8 and 14/15 September

The work on show will be based on recent travels to Greenland and the Arctic, together with responses to past travels in Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean.

Mary is currently developing a series of print-based artworks exploring both recent and past travels to places that differ widely in their colours and landscapes. Her passion for the Arctic has produced a series of photo-etchings and monoprints that portray the loss of sea ice in both Greenland and Svalbard, where she has recently had residencies. In contrast to the colour palette of the Arctic, she is also working on responses to sketch books she kept while working in Dominica drawing plants in a wonderful tropical garden. Her printmaking processes are primarily photoetching and monoprint–both of which provide technical challenges that embrace learning at every stage on the journey towards making a final print.

Mary studied at Edinburgh College of Art on the part-time BA degree graduating in 2013. 

Mary was selected for the VAS centenary exhibiton, RSA Edinburgh and awarded the Scottish Society of Women Artists Special Award. Recent exhibitions include Hidden Door festival 2023, Glacial Narratives: Cracks in the Ice. With Adam Sebire, Elizabeth Bourne, Mettje Hunneman, Martin Disley, Andra Black, Peter Nienow at Custom House Gallery, Leith, Edinburgh 2023, Edinburgh Printmakers Members’ exhibitions Journey in 2023 and  Kinship in 2022, Upright Gallery Artists’ Book exhibition, December 2022 and she has shown at Porty Artwalk for several years.

Mary recently undertook a residency with Arctic Culture lab, to Illulisat, Greenland in June 2023 and she is showing her Glacial Narratives work there in September 2024. 

Website: www.mary-walters.com

Instagram: @marywalters7

Contact: mary.walters7@gmail.com