Artist: Mary Worcester Newell
Title:Apples
Image Size: 10" x 10"
Edition: Artist Hand Signed and Numbered Limited Edition to 195 (AP's to 19)
Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas
About the Artist: Mary Worcester Newell grew up in Ohio. Although she did not declare herself an artist until well into her teens, she recalls an early event that started her thinking about art. Her family was discussing the art of John Singer Sargent, who was her great grandparents’ cousin. The question asked was “Did Sargent waste his talent by painting portraits?” She did not have an answer at that time, but never forgot the conversation or the question.

Mary studied at the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio. Following graduation, Worcester Newell entered the world of commercial art, balancing family and work as she raised two children and freelanced in illustration. She continued her career as her children grew and eventually relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she started a successful career painting and illustrating for an impressive list of corporate and personal clients.

Remarried and retired now from that career, Mary is now painting what she selects. Comfortable working in watercolor or oil, Mary comments, “I prefer whichever medium I happen to be working in at the moment. Oils can be more about color and I love the endless possibilities of playing with color.

Although she has never taken the time to enter her work in competitions, one of her clients did enter a project on her behalf and it won the 1987 Ad Federation award for “Best Illustration” nationally.

I believe a painting should evoke an emotion of some kind, and I hope mine exude a sense of energy and beauty through the excitement and explosion of texture and color,” concludes Worcester Newell. Mary and her husband, Dennis, live in a comfortably eclectic house that she helped design and renovate, near a wooded lake area of Minneapolis, Minnesota.