About me
Mary W.D. Graham is a painter and printmaker whose work explores the emotional and spiritual dimensions of landscape. Born and raised in New York City, she began her artistic training at the High School of Music and Art and continued at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and the Polakov Studio of Stage Design. Her early career as a scenic artist for ballet, opera, and Broadway shaped her sensitivity to atmosphere, light, and spatial composition.Graham later returned to painting, earning a BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her practice is deeply rooted in the natural world, drawing inspiration from the mountains, rivers, and forests of New England, as well as her travels across Europe, China, and the United States. Influenced by American Luminism and Chinese shanshui aesthetics, her paintings evoke solitude, silence, and transcendence through subtle shifts in color and layered glazes.In addition to painting, Graham is an accomplished printmaker working in the Japanese mokuhanga technique. Her woodblock prints reflect a meditative engagement with material and process, offering a counterpoint to her atmospheric oil paintings.Graham’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the Northeast and is held in numerous private and corporate collections. A juried member of the Salmagundi Club and the Copley Society of Art, she has received multiple awards for her landscapes. Her practice invites viewers into spaces of reflection and refuge, where perception and memory converge.
