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Having grown up in Liberal, Kansas, Mary received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Kansas State University. She spent 17 years in the commercial art field as a fashion illustrator and graphic designer for the largest newspapers in Oklahoma and Kansas.

During her commercial art years she also painted commissioned portraits and figurative work while attending workshops given by noted painters Everett Raymond Kinstler, David Leffel and Daniel Gerhartz. Along with her figurative work, Mary also produces western genre paintings of buffaloes, cowboys, horses and landscapes.

Mary has been surrounded by master level paintings her entire life. Her inspiration comes from her Great Uncle, Wayman Adams, who was an accomplished painter and lithographer who practiced in Indiana, New York and Texas. Wayman met her Aunt, Margaret Graham Boroughs, also an accomplished painter, in William Merritt Chase’s painting class in Italy.

John Singer Sargent, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Nicolai Fechin, as well as a host of other American and French artists continue to be her inspiration. Kansas City born, Abstract Expressionist, Paul Jenkins, and his love of color, has been a big influence on her as well. Mary aspires to produce fine art at the level of these master painters.  Mary is professionally represented by the Southwind Gallery of Topeka, Kansas.