Mary Wilson

Mary Wilson was born in Glasgow where she trained at Glasgow School of Art and Jordanhill College of Education. She taught Art & Design in Secondary schools in Glasgow, then in Hopeman, Elgin and latterly in Nairn after moving north.
She worked mainly on commissions while teaching and bringing up her family.

Within teaching Mary worked extensively with pupils with special needs and pupils preparing portfolios for Art Colleges . She was an assessor for the Scottish Exam Board at 6th year study level. She is still involved with further Education and tutors her own adult art group in Nairn. Since leaving teaching she has returned to painting and works with 8 other artists at the WASPS Blue Door Artists Studios in Nairn.

" My work is mainly with land and seascape inspired by the rich visual resources and ever changing light and colour of the Moray Firth and other Scottish environment"

Mary works in oil, and recently in acrylics, as well as gouache, pastel and coloured pencil on varying surfaces.  She combines her studio work with a weekly untutored life class and her teaching.

A founder member of the Highland Print Studio, Mary Wilson has exhibited widely in Scotland and beyond.