Mary Rose Drescher - Oil Paintings

Medium: Oil Painting

Website: http://www.maryrosedrescher.com/

Facebook: @maryrosedrescher

Instagram: @maryroseartist

Email: maryrosedrescher@gmail.com

Mary Rose is a Bowen Island artist whose oil paintings explore colour, light, and atmosphere in the natural landscape. Through expressive brushwork, simplified forms, and carefully observed colour relationships, her work captures the fleeting qualities of place.

With a background in architecture, she brings a sensitivity to space and composition, balancing spontaneity with a considered approach to form. Her broader artistic practice reflects an ongoing fascination with colour, natural materials, and the experience of landscape.

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