"Everyday art for joyful people"

 

 

Mary was born in California and moved to Vermont when she was four. She grew up in Shelburne looking at the Adirondacks and the waves and weather of Lake Champlain. She studied art at the Shelburne Craft School (now called the Shelburne Art Center). After high school Mary studied art at Johnson State College with Peter Heller, John Battdorf and Ken Leslie. She danced with Maris Wolf and a trio called 3-D performing “guerrilla improv” around Vermont. Drawing, sculpture, batik, clay were all part of her studies there. Later she studied at SUNY Purchase and Parsons. At Puchase, she studied photography and 3 dimensional art. At Parsons she studied weaving and sewing. It was later on after she created Spudprints, a handprinted/handpainted clothing company that she started using brilliant combinations of color. Her rich, playful banners began in 1999 after experimenting painting on wooden blocks. The banners led to her photographing her work for greeting cards. Mary’s paintings are her latest passion. Accepted into the Vermont Studio School in Johnson, Vermont in 2007, she had some time to begin investigating painting in a deeper way. Mary also creates interiors for clients in Vermont, New York and Maryland. Her latest mural project is for Sugarbush Ski Resort in their brand new ski school building “The Schoolhouse”. She teaches a community art class for middle school kids in St. Albans. Mary also offers art camps for kids during vacation weeks and in the summer. Recently relocated from the Mad River Valley, Mary lives in Underhill with her husband Rick Heh, their four teenage boys and two cats, Tiger and Cutie. 

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