Mary Adams is a painter and sculptor who divides her time between her native Savannah and Washington, CT. She grew up visiting friends in Bluffton and spent several months living in town and painting watercolors of the old town and surrounding low country in the early ‘90s.
Her art education began in Paris in 1972. She later studied oil painting with noted Georgia artist, Augusta Oelschig, before spending three and a half years at the Art Students League in New York while working on several Off and Off Off Broadway projects. She began sculpture at the Washington Art Association in the ‘90s and has studied with Paul Lucchesi in Italy and in Savannah and Garland Weeks, noted Western sculptor.
Over the years, she has had numerous showings of her work in Savannah, New York and Connecticut. She is represented in private collections around the country, as well as Auckland, New Zealand. Locally she might be best known for her painting of the old Polk’s Market in Savannah and the old Back River public dock at Tybee Island.
From 2006-2015 her time and creative efforts were spent co-publishing a magazine in Connecticut called “Edible Nutmeg” which featured local food and farms and endeavored to have a strong visual appeal.
During her months in Connecticut, she is an active member of the Washington Art Association, a well-known institution in that area. She teaches sculpture working from the model in water-based clay or from imagination. She continues to paint, mostly plein air, but has concentrated on sculpture in recent years.
