"Mary Crutchfield, a native of Arlington, Va., makes her home in Elizabeth
City, NC. She received her education at Radford College, Va., the University
of Arizona in Tucson, and UNC at Chapel Hill, NC, receiving BA and MS degrees.
She has studied watermedia with Alex Powers, Charles Reid, Ralph Smith, Carole
Barnes, Katherine Chang Liu, Mary Todd Beam, Glenn Bradshaw and others. She is
a long-standing member of the Studio Gallery in Elizabeth City, and conducts
painting workshops in the community, Eastern North Carolina and Virginia."
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Little River Studio
205 Dances Bay
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
(252) 330 4350
Mary Crutchfield's work can be viewed and purchased at
www.little-river-studio.com
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| "Mary Crutchfield has exhibited and won awards in many local, regional, national
and international juried shows. and her paintings hang in both national and
international collections. Recent juried shows include the Irene Leache
Exhibit at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Va., the Southern Watercolor
Exhibits, the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, d'Art
Mid-Atlantic Exhibition, the Mississippi, Montana, Georgia, California,
Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, New England and North Carolina juried watercolor
exhibitions. She is a signature member of the Pennsylvania, Mississippi and
Georgia Watercolor Societies, as well as the International Association of
Experimental Artists. She recently had work in an exhibition for the blind,
which traveled through Germany. She has exhibited in many one-woman shows,
including the Louise Jones Brown Gallery at Duke University, NC, the Horace
Williams Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC." |
| "I truly love painting in both transparent watercolor, with its
glow and interplay of light and shadow, and in watermedia. In watermedia, I
really enjoy creating works with texture and depth. The layered paintings in
watermedia are visual extensions of lyrical song and dance. They touch on an
idea or concept, then dance about in their own rhythm aided by the dynamics of
discovery."
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