After a career in teaching combined with bringing up a family, Mary now has time to indulge herself in her love of art and music.

She has always been able to draw; right from her early childhood and now in retirement and many tutors later she has developed her skills of painting, ceramics and textiles.

Mary paints and draws in all media and has a bookcase full of sketches from her many travels at home and abroad.

Prior to the first lock down in 2020, she spent a couple of years gaining inspiration from many visits to Kimmeridge Bay on the South Coast of Dorset and developed her ideas and sketches from there.

She has also published a small book titled “A Kimmeridge Sketchbook”.