Mary Jepsen

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Mary didn’t begin painting until after

retirement in 2015. Since then, she has taken

classes from watercolor artists Lisa Hill and

Birgit O’Connor.

She enjoys painting plants, pets, glass and is

just starting into landscape, particularly

painting her two favorite areas of the U.S.,

the Plains States, where she is from, and

Eastern Washington.

“I know I have a long way to go,” she says,

“And, watercolor is known as a difficult

medium. But I love the effect of color and

water blending and running about on the paper.

It can be transparent looking or heavy and opaque.”