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I started 2024 off with another Strada Easel Challenge (January) which involves painting or drawing from life every day for the whole of the month. I found this one equally as tough as the September one, perhaps more so because of the cold and limited daylight. Even so, I completed the Challenge and was especially happy with two paintings of my greenhouse interior.

I'm so pleased to announce that In April and May I will be a guest artist at the One Craft Gallery in Shepton Mallet. It has been fun curating which ones to show and getting them all framed. If you'd like a sneak peak beforehand just go to Galleries and Oil Paintings - most of the ones I'm exhibiting will have RESERVED FOR EXHIBITION after the title. Please let me know if there are any you're interested in.


In 2023 I went painting with the Bath Plein Air group, began a series of tree portraits #100 trees in paint and was thrilled to have one of my studio paintings, 'At the Yard' accepted into the Bath Open 2023 Exhibition. 

I also exhibited with the Blandford Art Society and the Bruton Art Society and took part in the September Strada Easel Challenge.

If you are on Instagram you can follow my progress by clicking on the small icon at the top right of the page or by searching for @maryjbarnesart.

 Please don't have anything to do with marybarnesfineart on Instagram as this was my account but was hacked in November 2022.  I'm still in the process of trying to get Instagram/Meta to remove it having failed to recover it.